I think it makes sense, so that something like North West won't happen

I don't agree, it's suppression of independent thought

No you can't name your kid danial we prefer Todd. So it must be done >ㅁ<

I would love to see some moron in congress propose this in the US.

But muh freedum

I can see a less diverse place doing that for the sake of homogeny and not having a kid stand out too much, but in a place like the US, where the spirit of the country is literally "fuck you, I'mma do the thing" it wouldn't go over well. We encourage individuality to the point of crazy, we like it. A better option is easier mechanisms for the kid to change their name later if they hate it.

This is the reason no one in Finland has too weird first names, and weirdo parents who wants to name their child hitler etc. are not allowed. And why there's a little girl in America called Applebutter.

"We would like to name him Al"
"Sorry, that username isn't available. Try Al1234 or Al_6969"

Fucking Europe and their weird non-freedom.

Germany too

You can very freely choose a name for your kid in Finland. It's not like you have to choose from list of 10 acceptable names. The law just prevents parents from naming their child "hashtag" or "cheese", for example.

It's their child. They should not have the ability to dictate what they are going to name the kid. That's ridiculous.

So y'all heard of the parents that liked the Name "Katelyn" (of however you spell it), but wanted it to be special. So they replaced "ate" with the roman numbers for 8, VIII, and now their daughter is called Kviiilyn. I think it's good to prevent crap like that. Poor child.

Or that one woman on TV, her name was Erica, but her parents decided it was a good idea to spell it "Airwrecka"

In Sweden a family wasnt allowed to name their child "Ikea".. another wasnt allowed "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb111163” but they approved "Google"..