In Australia you can name your child Metallica or God Bless, but not Jesus Christ or Ned Kelly

[sjmike]

YOU can call your kid Metallica, Fully Hektik Sik or God Bless, but don't even think about giving him the name Ned Kelly - that would be offensive.

Christian names deemed acceptable and unacceptable by the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages provide interesting reading.

The Registry can reject a name for a number of reasons under the Registration Act 1995. Reasons include that the name might be obscene or offensive, is too long or includes ``symbols without phonetic significance.''

The Act also bans official titles, ranks or names ``contrary to the public interest for some other reason.''
Nor can names be a sentence.

Ned Kelly was rejected for public interest reasons, as was Jesus Christ. Post Master General and Chief Maximus were rejected because they are titles.

Other names knocked back included a blank space, the child's Medicare number and the number seven, a name suggested in the sitcom Seinfeld.

Titles including Prince, Princess, Dame, Duke, King, Queens and Lady have all been rejected, but Prince, Queen, Lady and Sir are eligible used on their own.

For reasons known only to the Registrar, Metallica, Fully Hektik Sik and God Bless are acceptable.

For privacy reasons, the Attorney General's office, which oversees the Registry, could not reveal Metallica's identity. Fully Hektik Sik's surname also remains unidentified to all except his/her family and friends.

Attorney General John Hatzistergos urged parents to use common sense when choosing a name for their child.

"A person's name is their signature for life, their identity,'' he said. ``A person's reputation will forever be linked to it and I would remind parents of this special significance when choosing a name for their child.''

Sweden recently ruled Metallica an acceptable name, along with Budweiser.

France and Denmark give citizens a list of names to choose from.

In 1980, prior to the Registry being tightened up in 1995, an Australian couple successfully registered their child with the name Monkey.

Source: Daily Telegraph

[Crazytallicafux]

hmmm thanks Mike for the read, i didn't know that myself hahaha. Im from qld the state above nsw though

[minus clover]

i really hope "fully hektik sik" sues the living crap out of his/her parents for being so bloody stupid!!!!

forgot to mention... you can get around the "ned kelly" name... just call your kid "edward kelly" then shorten it to "ned". i used to work with a "ned kelly", whose name was really edward kelly...

[Leighton]

Haha! Deadbeats. Got to love em... for something.

[J0nn0666]

Yeh there sure are some strange people about...... Who would wanna call their child MONKEY!FFS!

[Bob Garage]

of course its not just the aussies who allow stupid names......

who could forget the amercian child called Adolf Hilter with his sisters "JoyceLynn Aryan Nation" and "Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/01 ... oved_.html

[J0nn0666]

of course its not just the aussies who allow stupid names......

who could forget the amercian child called Adolf Hilter with his sisters "JoyceLynn Aryan Nation" and "Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/01 ... oved_.html

That's just wrong,on sooooooooooooooooooo many levels Bob.

[Fadingtoblack]

Some people just shouldn't be allowed to have kids! Child Services should be called on submission of some of these names


Then again celebrities are just as bad, wtf some of them are thinking I'll never know...

[hellawaits77]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's terrible. He says "the kids' won't grow up like that", but..................... they name the kids that, and their home is filled w/ swastikas. Well, I'd say I don't believe it.