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So you ’ve finally decide that you no longer need to go through life-time burdened by the horrifying name your parents gave you . Great ! But you ’re still expire to have to explain that decision to dear old Mom and Dad . And , unless you really care awkward family holiday , it ’s best you have an excuse other than , " You guy suck!“ In the interest group of your continued familial blissfulness , we provide the following controversy - free reasons for your moniker interchange :
BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT’S MAKING YOU
list your baby Brooklynn , America , or Lindsee might be acceptable ( if mockable ) in the good ol' U.S. of A. , but do n’t try a stunt like that in Denmark . Of all the European laws regulating babe names , Denmark ’s are the strictest . Danish parents must choose from a state - approved inclination of 7,000 names , which seems like a mountain , until you shine in love with a name that is n’t on there . And bucking the organization means months of slogging through a bureaucratic process to get your chosen moniker singly approved by the Names Investigation Department and the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs . Each year , the organisation reject 15 to 20 percent of the name they review — all in the , well , " name" of protect the baby ’s dignity .
BECAUSE YOU AREN’T AS RELIGIOUS AS YOUR PARENTS
Forget the hippies , the awarding for # 1 demented - sister - name subculture absolutely has to go to the Puritans . Well know for burning freakish neighbors , force adulterer to wear colorful letterman jacket , and reprobate the concept of " fun" in oecumenical , Puritan culture was essentially a big Lucille Ball of repressed wackiness looking for an outlet . Thus , did little Silence , Humiliation , and Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin ( i.e. the committal to writing on the wall from the Book of Daniel ) devote the price for their parents ' self - flagellation . Some , however , afterward renegade . Sometime before 1660 , a sermonizer ’s son - turn - medico change his name from Hath Christ Not go For Thee Thou Wouldst Be Damned Barebone to the more sensible Nicholas Barbon .
FOR THE SAKE OF A LITTLE PUBLICITY
Between 1965 and 1979 , San Francisco painting declarer Bill Holland changed his name no fewer than three time . But Holland ’s odyssey was n’t part of some New Age effort to bump himself . Rather , allot to the abbreviated write - up Holland warrant inTimemagazine , his impulsive name - hopping was a purely capitalistic dodge . In rules of order to become easy identifiable as the " last name in the earpiece book" Holland took on the professional nom de guerre of Zachary Zzzra . Over the next 15 eld , he had to periodically add some " z’s" as first a " Zelda Zzzwramp" and then a " Vladimir Zzzzzzabokov" moved to town . By 1979 , Holland ’s house painting contract bridge line could be find under the unwieldy moniker of Zachary Zzzzzzzzzra .
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