[SMGFan]

And we need to be more like those European countries?

Time for the USA to get rid of all those weird new names with weird spellings. /s Those low information voters dontcha know?

[twister881]

Did Boy take Tarzan & Jane to court? Just wondering...

[ronnie raygun]

What! we have to give up Shanikwa, chantelle, danikwa, imani, shanice, jamaica and china.

[muawiyah]

America is noted for having whatever names people want. In fact, in most of the world, names have meanings ~ in America they are just names.

Took me a good 50 years to do enough research in the most obscure parts of history to find out what my surname meant ~ and when I succeeded in that most awesome task I found there were a good dozen spellings of the primary core of the name and maybe over a hundred other variations based on varying pronunciations in languages that've been extinct for well over 1000 years.

Folks fresh off the Boeing don't usually have that problem and might well think those spellings are strange.

[Gay State Conservative]

Ten bucks says that Dwezil and Moon Unit are on the approved list.As is Mohammad,no doubt.

[trebb]

Secret Agent girl.... They’ve given you a title and taken ‘way your name...

[DH]

Back when I was in the Air Force we had a guy named (full name) North East West.

I really felt sorry for him.

[Bluebird Singing]

Dogg - girl name in Iceland, means “dew” and is an approved name. LOL

http://babynames.allparenting.com/list/Icelandic_Baby_Names/Dogg/details/

[jch10]

There have been studies on the correlation between first names and success and, SURPRISE! Those with common names with recognized spellings were much more likely to succeed than those with strange spellings.

I’ve been told by kindergarten teachers that students with names that were difficult to pronounce or spell, often got behind the Joes and Marys, and took months to catch up. Some never did.

[Uncle Chip]

As long as “Male” and “Female” are on the list, they’ve got it covered.

[yarddog]

I was listening to the radio a while back and they were giving updates on college basketball scores.

They mentioned the “Lady Bulldogs” of Georgia and I recall thinking that did not sound quite right. Then I realized what the alternative was and decided lady bulldogs was just fine.

[NonValueAdded]

L—A

The dash don't be silent

[calex59]

Personally, I admire the old custom the south used to have of giving only initials to the boys name. Such as J.D. for instance. I went to school with 3 guys named J.D. and I lived in a small population area. Two were named J.D. and the third guys parents used a little imagination and called him Jay D. One guy in the army I knew as named R.B. Jones. To clarify this to Army people who took care of Personnel problems, they kept asking him for his full name, he filled out a form with his name and put R.(only) B.(only) Jones. Sure enough when we got our orders to move to our second eight weeks of training he was listed on the orders as Ronly Bonly Jones.

Ahhh, the military(read that as government)mind, it works so well.

[Cronos]

the law seems to make some sense. from the article
choices like Cara, Carolina, Cesil, and Christa have been rejected outright because the letter "c'' is not part of Iceland's 32-letter alphabet.

She pointed to "Satania" as one unacceptable case because it was deemed too close to "Satan."