All three babies born in Japan this year will breath a sigh of relief I'm sure.
this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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This year: three babies
Next year: 3 million kevinist kids shackled with absolutely dumb vanity names until they are permitted to change them.
Names that seem excessively “creative” can seem stupid to me, but government regulation is the worst way possible to try and deal with it. As usual, tolerance is the answer.
Weird. Go see Sweden.
What do you mean?
Pikachu, Naiki (Nike), Daiya (Diamond), Pū (as in Winnie-the-Pooh) and Kitty
Is that the worst they can come up with? They could learn a lot from Americans.
While the revisions to the family registry act do not ban kanji – Chinese-based characters in written Japanese – parents are required to inform local authorities of their phonetic reading
Well this is fucking crazy to me. Almost every single form you ever have to write your name on in Japan also has a section that you have to write the phonetic reading of it as well. The fact that it doesn't exist on the family register is absolutely bonkers. I know Japan hates updating things, but even back in the day there were multiple readings for the same kanji characters, and the government being ok with ambiguity on official documents is blowing my mind.
Even before the shiny names the article is talking about the names could be wildly different. We're not talking about not knowing if Ashleigh is pronounced Ash-lee or Ash-lay, it's like 里香 being commonly read as either Rika or Satoko.
As an aside, Ashleigh is an abomination regardless of how it's spelled, derived from a toponymic surname that later became a boy's given name. Parents who give their daughters such names should be put in the stocks and made to eat gruel made from spelt cooked in day-old hotdog water.
Bro how bad did Ashleigh hurt you?
What if my daughter is actually a field with ash trees though?
...what?
Little Bobby Tables nods approvingly.
(an old XKCD joke)
Someone in California had a vanity plate that read "NULL." Turns out that's where the state computer assigned traffic tickets where the license plate was unreadable, so he got a shedload, and it took him a lot of work to get that mess cleared up.
Null is also a German surname, so people who aren't taking the piss get caught in problems due to stupid input validation and bad testing.
There really is an xkcd for everything.
That really seems like a tool a government could use to abuse minority populations. Not to mention stagnate it's culture.
its*
How many children unfortunate enough to have Elon Musk as their sperm donor have outlandish names/
- Name_1_male
- Name_1_female
...
- Name_16_male
- Name_16_female
Should be enough!
Following the logic of one of my beloved enterprise data architect everything should use UUIDs as way of refer to an entity… so more like
- a6a01005-b698-4344-a88b-06911ca71965
- 5f763196-46a6-4f1d-b7b8-55d948eb6080
Wouldn’t be practical to pronounce but otherwise no more problem of gimmicky names :)
I prefer my unique IDs to be derived from the whole UTF-16 table.
Not allowed.
Name_1_Body-type_A Name_2_Body-type_B