I keep coming back to edit too late. I don’t think many Americans understand how naming laws in other countries work. I kind of do, because I got fascinated with it as a kid in the early 80s, This was when some British parents made international news because they tried to name their daughter Princess and they were banned from it. In the UK at the time, you were not allowed to name your infants a noble or royal title. You wouldn’t go to jail or anything. The birth certificate was rejected and sent back for an invalid name. That kind of thing is unheard of in the US.
I found out that MANY other countries have national naming laws. Most of my info is likely out of date by now. I remember that in Germany in the 80’s you were required to name your child a name where the gender of the child was obvious. You were NOT allowed to name your child a gender ambiguous name. You were NOT allowed to name your child of the opposite gender. The birth certificate would get rejected and sent back.
In Japan, there was a list of syllables parents were allowed to use to name their children. One was for boys and the other was for girls. If you did not name the child with the correct set of syllables, the name was rejected.
There were many European countries that forbade you to name your child a name a foreign name. The name had to be native to the country of origin unless the parents were from another country. Then the parents were only allowed to name the children a name from their original country of origin.
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None of this applies to the original case mentioned. There was no federal government involvement. The name was not rejected and the birth certificate made invalid. The name was flagged for a possible form of abuse and an investigation was opened. That’s a world of difference between a federal law banning certain names.