Judge gets fed up with bad child names, forces name change

[Uraniun235]

That's an excellent way to get your sorry ass sued off for violating the Civil Rights Act.

Isn't that a difficult thing to prove, though?

[General Zod]

That's an excellent way to get your sorry ass sued off for violating the Civil Rights Act.

Isn't that a difficult thing to prove, though?

Especially when they don't actually have to tell you why they rejected your resume, afaik. They can just look at the resume and discard it based on the name without letting you know.

[Rye]

You don't understand why Tara Gofart is a funny name?

I personally think Shia LeBeouf should have his name forcibly changed, since it almost means "follower of the beef", from the arabic shia and the french surname.

Not really, no. I understand the reference to flatulence, but how does Tara signify?

Tara's not necessary, it works with most names since it can be easily read as a command. Tara, Gofart!

[Metatwaddle]

My personal favorite is the weird-ass fashion of naming girls after presidents' last names. Madison and Taylor are inexplicably trendy names for girls who are about 7 years old. My sister, who's 10, has even had friends named Kennedy and McKinley.

Does anyone know what the hell that's about? Also, why haven't there been any girls named Roosevelt yet?

[RedImperator]

That's an excellent way to get your sorry ass sued off for violating the Civil Rights Act.

Isn't that a difficult thing to prove, though?

It's no more difficult than proving they refused to hire you because you're Hispanic, or a woman, or any other protected group. An individual is probably impossible to prove unless someone really screws up (accidentally sends an email to the wrong person or something), but if you make it a habit, sooner or later you're going to get caught and then you're going to the cleaners.

[Cycloneman]

There was a study done a while back that got posted on N&P which showed systematic discrimination against people with "ethnic" names like Jamal in favor of people with "white" names like Greg. Here's the article. Life sucks, racists are still around.

[LadyTevar]

We're still waiting for the day the mother of "Sha'9C" comes to get a copy of the kid's birth certificate. It's never been filed, because she'd ignored all attempted to contact her with a 'suggestion' to rename the child.

I googled it and came up with this:
http://www.datehookup.com/Photo-56522815-947879.htm

the person's profile:
http://www.datehookup.com/User-56522815.htm

Is this the person

Also, for those attacking the names; you're all mainly attacking from the idea that a person with that name would have a horrible childhood due to being picked on, correct?

Would you have the same reaction to 'ethnic' names used by African-Americans in the US (see the example I quoted, Sha'9C (well normally it would be spelled differently). I'm just interested in your reasoning

My my my... I love how you managed to find her that way. I'll see if she'll contact us now.

Our office only has a problem with it because it's alphanumeric. If she'd spelled it Sha'nin'cee, or any variation that sounded the same, we'd not have given a damn. We've let Princess Americus and Sephiroth Orion go though, as well as Deja Vue. So, it's HOW she spelled it, not that it's a "designer name" as we call it.

[Almightyboredone]

Too be fair, there are also adults who legally change their names to dipshit names. Working in a hospital, I can't go into much detail, but among others there's "A-Z" (yes, dash included), "Trouble", "Driftwood", and "Druid".

[White Haven]

One of my personal 'favorites' was in a mostly-black class back in high school, when they were two girls with modified-spelling versions of 'Unique' as a first name. Two of them.

[Adrian Laguna]

You can have a perfectly normal first name and still have it be outlandish when used with your family name. I have seen, with my own eyes, official bank records for depositors named: "Mike Hunt" "Phyl McCraken" "Dick Sweat" "Anita Mann" "The Estate of Kris 'Santa Claus' Kringle" "Tara Gofart" "Jesus" "Moses" "Ha Ha" "Ho Ho" "He He" "Ding Dong" and my all time favorite"Dick Hertz".

There's nothing weird about Moses or Jesus. Moses is not that odd among Jewish populations, and Jesus is quite popular among Hispanics, even girls have it (as their middle name, though). Two very common names are Jesus Maria and Maria Jesus, the first for boys and the second for girls. In Spanish the gender of your middle name is not particularly important.

[Adrian Laguna]

In fact, the popularity of "Jesus" as a name for newborns has been steadily rising for the past 120 years. According to babynamewizard.com it ranked 532 in the 1880s and peaked at 67 in 2003.

[Col. Crackpot]

There's nothing weird about Moses or Jesus. Moses is not that odd among Jewish populations, and Jesus is quite popular among Hispanics, even girls have it (as their middle name, though). Two very common names are Jesus Maria and Maria Jesus, the first for boys and the second for girls. In Spanish the gender of your middle name is not particularly important.

There is nothing weird about the given names of Moses and Jesus. The weird part is that they had no last name. Just "Jesus" and "Moses". Kinda like Oprah... but different.

[Adrian Laguna]

There is nothing weird about the given names of Moses and Jesus. The weird part is that they had no last name. Just "Jesus" and "Moses". Kinda like Oprah... but different.

Oh, no last name. That is definitely weird, since they are effectively claiming to be the historical character. I think in a Fundamentalist Muslim country doing that with "Mohammed" could get you in big trouble.

[Block]

There is nothing weird about the given names of Moses and Jesus. The weird part is that they had no last name. Just "Jesus" and "Moses". Kinda like Oprah... but different.

Oh, no last name. That is definitely weird, since they are effectively claiming to be the historical character. I think in a Fundamentalist Muslim country doing that with "Mohammed" could get you in big trouble.

Or you could be claiming you want them to model their life after the person, or any number of other things.

[Sidewinder]

My personal favorite is the weird-ass fashion of naming girls after presidents' last names. Madison and Taylor are inexplicably trendy names for girls who are about 7 years old. My sister, who's 10, has even had friends named Kennedy and McKinley.

Does anyone know what the hell that's about? Also, why haven't there been any girls named Roosevelt yet?

My guess is parents name daughters after presidents for the same reason they'd pick a name like "Talula Does the Hula," i.e., they think it's cool, trendy, or whatever. (Madison is especially ridiculous because the "son" in that name obviously means it's should be a boy's name.) As for "Roosevelt," I know a black man in his 50s with that as his first name.

[Simplicius]

My guess is parents name daughters after presidents for the same reason they'd pick a name like "Talula Does the Hula," i.e., they think it's cool, trendy, or whatever. (Madison is especially ridiculous because the "son" in that name obviously means it's should be a boy's name.) As for "Roosevelt," I know a black man in his 50s with that as his first name.

Roosevelt makes sense, though - his parents named their son for a president who was a popular hero for average-Joe Americans of their (his parents') day. That's a personal way to show respect, like naming a child after a beloved relative. But what did frigging McKinley do for anyone young enough to be naming their children in the present?

[Oskuro]

Some years back, a family made national news by naming their child Kevincostner of All Saints <lastname>.

No, not Kevin, but Kevincostner as the given name.