Your nation's rules for naming children

[The Onigiri Enclave]

There are absolutely no rules, customs, traditions, or laws regarding naming a child in The Onigiri Enclave. Wanna name your kid Crapsack Dingo-Eviscerator O'Malley the Second, Electric Boogaloo? No one is going to stop you, nor will anyone in The Onigiri Enclave really care. Hell, right now one of our most well-known athletes is a biathlete named "Diarrhea Dan the Dandy Duke." You are free to name your child anything here.

[Caleonia]

In Caleonia, there is no true restrictions on names. You want your child to be Daytonaatlantalasvegasismautoclubmartinsvilletexasbristolrichmondtalladegadoverkansascharlottepoconomichigansonomachicagolanddaytonakentuckynewhampshirepoconowatkinsglenmichiganbristoldarlingtonindianapolislasvegasrichmondcharlotterovaldovertalladegakansasmartinsviletexasismhomestead Daetsemohmsisaxetelivsnitramsasnakagedallatrevodlavorettolrahcdnomhcirsagevsalsilopanaidninotgnilradlotsirbnagihcimnelgsniktawonocoperihspmahwenykcutnekanotyaddnalogacihcamonosnagihcimonocopettolrahcsasnakrevodagedallatdnomhcirlotsirbsaxetellivsnitrambulcotuamsisagevsalatnaltaanotyad? Go on right ahead, we don’t give a crap. Why? Because at birth everyone in Caleonia is assigned a number in the Caleonian database that lets the government keep track of anyone at any time. All foreigners are also assigned a number as well that stays with them when they travel back home.

[Ferlhizlishia]

we have several costum and laws.

1 the children will always take their mother family maternal name and their father Paternal names
2 the children will not receive a silly names or an insult as an names
3 Common animals or certains words cannot be a named. for exemple, Penis cannot be a name in our country
4 Names that have been banned by our political cannot be used as a name, however it is always permitted to name your children after the monarch
5 Names must have a correct meaning, the doctor assisting women who give birth always have the right to deny or to approve names.
6 in some occasion, the doctor can directly choose the names of the children instead of the mother. that is very rare

[DeLongtasia]

One's name is required by the Identification Act of 2017, which was heavily opposed by democratic hate groups for its clause on forbidding naming a child a name of clearly the opposite gender, requires these guidelines be met:

1) Name must have at least 2 characters
2) Name cannot be of clearly the opposite gender (I.E A male named Amy or a female named Robert)
3) The name cannot feature any not alphabetical letters or symbols
4) Accents are permitted.
5) The name cannot be over 30 characters.
6) The name cannot be blatantly referencing any terrorist, anti-government, or other prohibited organization/group.

Violating any of these will simply get a prompt to choose a different name. Violating #6, however, will result in fines and/or deportation for repeat offenses.

[Luritania]

First Name, Family Name
Prohibit to use weird names

[Voxija]

We don't have a list of allowed names; that would be too many names. However, we do have a list of banned names. There is a government worker who searches lists of "Crazy Baby Names" on the Internet and adds some to the list.

Specific banned names and types of banned names:
1. No Voxijan surnames as given names.
2. No naming your kids after food items.
3. Don't name your kids numbers.
4. It is forbidden to name your child Violet, because of certain historical events involving a certain religion in the 1730s.
5. Don't name your child after countries, especially not Voxija.

[Ko-oren]

There are very few regulations around names. The authority where the name is recorded will ask whether the parents are happy with the name, should the name refer to a touchy subject religiously or ideologically.

Other than that, there is a 3-first name limit. On top of that, an 'official' nickname is allowed as well.

[TURTLESHROOM II]

Humans used a combination of traditional English naming conventions and Russian naming conventions. A human is given a first name and their middle names, and their surname is inherited from the father.

For their middle names, humans and turtles used a combination of traditional English naming conventions and Russian naming conventions. The two main forms are either "father's first name-ivich/ovich" or "assign anything", and they are split about equal among newborns and hatchlings.

Here's an example of the Russian tradition. The orchestrator of the 2015 AD military coup d'etat against TurtleShroom is a turtle named Bubba Bubbavich ("son of Bubba") Long II. His last name was taken from his mother as all turtles do, but his middle name was from his father's first name.

Here's an example of the American tradition. TurtleShroom's richest human is Bessford Poehler Be, with the middle name meaning nothing else than something chosen by his parents.

All TurtleShroomers officially have four names on their birth certificate and in legal documentation, but when speaking or writing outside of the utmost formal circumstances, only three are used.

Here are the rules for names:

• The forename shall not be obscene or profane. No swear words, no exception.
• The forename shall not be sexual, implied to be sexual, or be slang for genitalia (e.g. something meant to invoke a double entende or dirty joke). (So, for example, the child's legal, official forename cannot be "Dick", "Wang", or "Dong". Respectively, these names will, by default, be changed to "Richard", "Ping", and "Ping", unless the parent or immigrant states a replacement, which they almost always do. They may, however, continue to use "Dick", or whatever else, as a nickname.)
• The forename shall consist solely of the letters of the English/Latin alphabet. No numbers, no hyphens, and no apostrophes are allowed. No accent marks, tildes, or other such things may be appended. If these exist upon immigration or naturalization, the name will be rewritten based on its phonetic pronunciation. The name itself will not be changed. (For example, "Beyoncè" becomes "Beyonsay" or "Beyonse".)
• Males cannot be named "Sue" or its derivatives. Not after that last incident.

For missing names:

• Creatures without a middle name but possessing a surname will be assigned a middle name derived from their father's forename with a traditional Russian suffix. (For example: Carl Smith, the son of Donald, becomes Carl Donaldivich Smith.)
• Creatures from a culture or society that did not give them a surname will be assigned their father's name with a traditional Russian suffix. (For example: Carl, the son of Robert, becomes Carl Robertovich). If they lack a middle name and surname, they will be asked to create a middle name.
• If their father's name is unknown and they lack a surname, the Russian suffix will be derived from the most recent, direct male ancestor that can be found. (For example: Carl, whose father is unknown but his maternal grandfather, Bob, is known, would become Carl Bobivich.)

On birth certificates, the full name is listed as "First/Middle/Russian suffix/Last", or, if the parents have chosen to assign their middle name as the Russian suffix, "First/Middle/Last".

[Zeritae]

1. Surnames are to be kept in a bloodline, and only that bloodline. Say a family named "Smith" marries with another family named "Smith". That would be incest, unless it's a non-Licemian (Non-Zeritan) named Smith.
2. The Licemian verb ending (etsh/edžh) is not to be used in last names, or first names
3. If a family has too much variations of the same last name, a member of the ministry of neutrality will come and talk to try and find a neutral version. EX: Smif, Smyth, Shmit, that would be neutralized into Smith.
4. Instead of using Jr. to refer to a son of someone with almost the same name, an "ehi" interfix is put in the middle and is gender neutral. Example: Matvu's son's name wouldn't be Matvu Jr., it'd be Mehiatvu. Johnathan's son wouldn't be Johnathan Jr., it'd be Johnathehian. The Ehi is always put before a vowel, and usually the second vowel in a long name. EX: Jehlin wouldn't be Jehiehlin, it's be Jehehilin.
5. No letter X at the beginning or middle of a name. Only allowed in the last three letters of the name. Xavier would become Egzavier, Max would become Max, Maxwell would become Maksuel, Ixanexa would become Ikzanexa.
6. Make the names easy to pronounce. Halthøxitan is allowed, Halavathaxoxuritan isn't allowed.

[Yseria]

Yseria has a few lists of approved names, one for each of the three social classes

[Dagnia]

1. Names must be spelled in only Latin A-Z or Cyrillic A-Я letters (no numbers or symbols), diacritics found in Slavic languages like Č, Ł, and Ę are permitted (Bronisław is fine, José is not).
2. Obscenities are forbidden (can't name your kid Kurwa or Cwel or any well-known foreign obscenities like Kuso, Fuck, or Scheisse)
3. Titles and professions are forbidden (Judge, Lady, Count, Doctor, Driver, Programmer, Miner, etc.)
4. Family titles are forbidden (Father, Brother, Son, Daughter, Cousin)
5. Diseases and disasters are forbidden (Cancer, AIDS, Earthquake, Flood, Plague)
6. Obviously mismatching your child's name with sex (naming your boy Svetlana, or your girl Leszek)
7. Overdone, odd spellings (Ashleiygh, Maikkel)
8. Difficult consonant clusters are forbidden (and we're Slavs, so you have to really fuck up this one).
9. There is a 7-syllable limit.

All names given at birth not recognized as names are subject to review.

[Lillorainen]

In the Federation of Lillorainen, people carry at least one forename and a surname, the number of both not being limited by law; additives may be included in special cases. There is no such as a list of possible given names, but authorities may step in, in case a name is indecent or otherwise inappropriate.
Due to former practices in some predecessor states, some surnames appear to be patronymic (Svensson, Jansen, Peters, Frings, Ibn-Adil); these practices have been abolished in favor of surnames long before the unification, but they may be included in addition (yet not replace them).
Names must consider of Latin letters; special characters (as in Björn, José, or Draško) are allowed.

[Silver Commonwealth]

''Well, although we don't have an official list of government mandated names, as we have other priorities, we still have quite a specific set of rules for naming children. Here are a few of them:''

1. ''Children's name can't contain swear words, both obvious, and more hidden.''
2. ''All names must contain Latin letters, to make registering people easier. (In regional documents, local scripts can be used, though.)''
3. ''It is not allowed to name children after professions, disasters, or leader nicknames, and titles, both dead, and alive.''
4. ''Name should contain at least one name, and surname - it can't be a nickname.''
5. ''Names are for the most party patronymic, and gender neutral pronouns are rarely used.''
6. ''Names shouldn't be too hard to pronounce. (With exceptions being local names, which can be often hard for people from other world regions to pronounce, but that is an another story.)''
7. ''Name must also fit the ethnicity/nationality of the children, for an example, surname ''Nguyen'' is allowed in Indochina, but not in, for an example, Lone Star Megastate.''
8. ''Names, which could stir up possible political controversy, are not allowed as well.''
9. ''It is also not legal to name kids after regions, or countries.''
10. ''Brands of the state companies as names are not allowed as well.''

[Cameroi]

while by no means absolute laws, there are certain traditions which are almost universal.

when a child is born, all of the adult members of their household participate in a naming ceremony, during which common 16 sided dice, are used to generate the sequence of alternating consonants and vowels, usually only two of each, which becomes their first personal name. when it becomes needed to distinguish two persons of the same personal name, the name of the village, neighborhood or district in which they were born, are used as what is called a locative.

upon reaching the age of adolesence, which corrisponds with graduation from the lower school system, and the beginning of the two year inter-educational sabatical known as pujzhush, the indivual gives themselves a new personal name, most often created in the same manor.

in both cases uniqueness is desired as suiting what our culture sees as the very reason for having a name, which is to distinguish one person from another.
for this reason also, the naming of any person, place or thing, 'after' or in other words, the same as, any other person, place or thing, is thoroughly discouraged.

there are many reasons for this, both to avoid confusion, but also to avoid creating needless psychological burdens.

[Starodubsky Russia]

The name Konstantin has been banned for over 300 years after one tsar left an especially bad taste in everyone's mouth, especially his successor's. This is the oldest naming law to stand today.

The oldest ever was the Mandate of Baptismal Naming. People were to be named exclusively after Saints from 1610-1620. It was repealed to appease minority groups, but remains the practice of the Orthodox Christian Majority

There are a few other banned names: Rude words and Genocidal Dictators mainly are banned. Clearly wrong-gendered names can't be applied.

[Technoscience Leftwing]

Names as in the utopia "Brave New World". Names and surnames of those who contributed to the development of science, industry, philosophy of utilitarianism and materialism, space exploration and also the left revolutionary movement. It is forbidden to give the names and surnames of the fascist leaders.

[Arthropol]

The only official law for naming children in Arthropol is that childrens' names should be legally registered in the Latin alphabet after birth.

Informal conventions for naming:
1. As women keep their maiden name after marriage, the parents of a child can choose whether to use the mother or father's surname for their child. The father's surname is overwhelmingly more common than the mother's surname, with 90% of parents choosing to use the father's surname for their child.

2. Middle names do not exist in Arthropolian names, however, children are commonly given multiple given names. The first given name is the legal given name, but all given names are listed on legal documents. People can choose to identify by any of their given names informally, but formally, the first given name is almost always used. For example, a man with the given names "Pierre Yves Robert" may be informally identified as "Pierre", "Yves" or "Robert", but he would be formally identified as "Pierre" or "Pierre Yves Robert". It is commonplace to use names of ancestors like grandparents as given names.

3. Arthropolians are very traditional in giving names. The trend of using bizarre spellings for names in Arthropol is almost nonexistent, and so is the trend of giving strange and bizarre names. Children of immigrants from other cultures will also almost always have part of their name from that culture. Strange or 'not normal' names are usually frowned upon.

[Orange-Transvaal]

The only law is that names can not be offensive or could lead to discrimination by other citizens.

[Alisonia-]

. . . What kind of draconian hellhole so hates personal freedom that they dictate laws on naming conventions? The Social Republic rejects this idea wholly and utterly, there are no such laws here.

[Tsuki]

What laws, if any, regulate which names may be given to children in your nation?

To start off, in Kavaliers:

1) Titles cannot be used as given names (e.g. Sir, Doctor, Judge, Justice, President, Sergeant, Bishop)
2) Children cannot be named God, Jesus, Messiah, Saint, or other religious titles
3) Children cannot be given offensive or insulting names (e.g. Satan, Hitler, swear words, names of diseases).
4) Names may not contain non-Latin characters, numbers, or punctuation other than hyphens. Accent marks are allowed though so names like José, Lucía, or Zoë are OK.
5) Children cannot be given names that clearly belong to the opposite gender (e.g. James for a girl or Elizabeth for a boy). Unisex names like Sydney or Addison are allowed for both boys and girls, though.
6) Brother, Sister, Boy, Girl, Baby etc. are also banned, along with anything else that's obviously not a name (so you can't name your child "Mountain" or "Simplicity" for instance).
7) "Creative" spellings are allowed, but only within reason. Alyson (for Allison), Kevyn (for Kevin) and Lucie (for Lucy) are permitted - but Aylysyn, Khevan and Looci are not.
8 ) No nicknames (Ed, Abby, Steve, Maddie) as full names.

There are fewer regulations on adults changing their own names, only the first four rules apply.

EDIT: No nicknames as given names.

Accent marks ARE latin.

[Tsuki]

1. Name must have an accent mark in first or last name
2. Must be latin
3. Must not be vuglar or insulting
4. Must be nonsense

[Chadtonia]

There is no law or rule for the naming of Children in Chadtonia. Parents are free to name their child as they please.

[Tsuki]

we have several costum and laws.

1 the children will always take their mother family maternal name and their father Paternal names
2 the children will not receive a silly names or an insult as an names
3 Common animals or certains words cannot be a named. for exemple, Penis cannot be a name in our country
4 Names that have been banned by our political cannot be used as a name, however it is always permitted to name your children after the monarch
5 Names must have a correct meaning, the doctor assisting women who give birth always have the right to deny or to approve names.
6 in some occasion, the doctor can directly choose the names of the children instead of the mother. that is very rare

GRAMMAR!

[Sao Pablo]

1. Cannot be a title or name of relationship link in any language (I.E Bishop, Sister, Mister, Sir, etc.)
2. Cannot contain number characters (I.E. 1-0)
3. Cannot contain typographic symbols, punctuation marks, or emojis (I.E. @ ! ? )
4. They cannot use a brand name that is not already a legally accepted name. (I.E. Dick as in Dick's Sporting Goods is usable, but not KFC or Safeway]

If a nurse, doctor, hospital administrator, or civil clerk encounters a name which they feel may be inappropriate, beyond the above regulations, then they may submit it to the courts to decide whether the child may be named the disputed name. These rulings do not create future regulations, nor establish a precedent. The rulings may also be appealed at a cost to parents.

[Epoecuaotoe]

No rules, except no profanity allowed. For example, Brfxxccxx....ssqlbb11116, whatever that name is, is very common among humans in Epœcuɒtœ, along with several variations. Temmies are more often simply numbered.