Icelandic girl known legally as "Girl" fights for her name

JulesDiane

Sorry if this is a repost, but this is an interesting article.

plunderb

Whenever I read one of these stories, I feel thankful to live in a country where you can name your kid any fool thing you like.

USA! USA! USA! 

Fletch82

Ha! I was just reading this article. While sometimes people choose names for their kids that I would never use (and sometimes names I definitely side eye) I still can't imagine not allowing people to choose what name to use.

Laurelyn2012

I just saw this on Yahoo and came here to post it.  The fact that there is only 3565 in total between boy and girl names is what got to me.

BC&LM

MelRC117:

I heard about this on radio this morning!I think its a little crazy that you have to pick from a set list of names.nbsp; I don't agree with only being able to pick from a set list, even though I wish people would stop trying to be youneek andnbsp;use thesenbsp;crazy, ridiculous spellings.nbsp; I don't think we need a law, just more common sense here in the US!I tried to look for the list, but the websites aren't in English.nbsp; On Wikipedia I found that they even have an Icelandic Naming Committee.nbsp; Wow.nbsp; They are serious about names.

This isn't the full list, but here are the most common names:

https://www.statice.is/Statistics/Population/Names