This Montreal girl has a middle name: 3jane.
Now the Kweeb bureaucratic army long bore a reputation for batting down just about any borderline moniker one could come up with.
They famously shot down some names that don't sound all that unusual, with their most famous moment being to deny someone the right to name their kid Spatule (Spatula). The parents eventually got their way however.
But 3jane got the green light.
So this young Montreal child might very well be the only Canadian born with a digit initial.
And the beauty of it is that it is pronounced differently in every language, Troisjane, Threejane, Dreijane, Talatajane, Bajane, Sanjane (That's enough, shut 'er down...Chimples).
Up until the late 90s government officials tried to talk parents out of about 20 names of the 85,000 new annual babies born in the province. So Boum-Boum, Lion, Cowboy, Gazouille, Peepee and Kaka were not thumbed-up by the team of seven name police working for Quebec's Registrar of Civil Status
Some parents beat them in court, however. C'est-Un-Ange and a girl with the letter L earned their names through a court decision and are turning somewhere about 18-years-old about now.
And then PQ Minister Andre Boisclair overruled their decision to stop a family from calling their daughter Ivory. Stormy was another that was going to be blocked.
Finally in 1999 the naming police had their powers revoked by Bill 34, which amended Article 54.
Since then it's pretty much free range naming.
Now the Kweeb bureaucratic army long bore a reputation for batting down just about any borderline moniker one could come up with.
They famously shot down some names that don't sound all that unusual, with their most famous moment being to deny someone the right to name their kid Spatule (Spatula). The parents eventually got their way however.
But 3jane got the green light.
So this young Montreal child might very well be the only Canadian born with a digit initial.
And the beauty of it is that it is pronounced differently in every language, Troisjane, Threejane, Dreijane, Talatajane, Bajane, Sanjane (That's enough, shut 'er down...Chimples).
Up until the late 90s government officials tried to talk parents out of about 20 names of the 85,000 new annual babies born in the province. So Boum-Boum, Lion, Cowboy, Gazouille, Peepee and Kaka were not thumbed-up by the team of seven name police working for Quebec's Registrar of Civil Status
Some parents beat them in court, however. C'est-Un-Ange and a girl with the letter L earned their names through a court decision and are turning somewhere about 18-years-old about now.
And then PQ Minister Andre Boisclair overruled their decision to stop a family from calling their daughter Ivory. Stormy was another that was going to be blocked.
Finally in 1999 the naming police had their powers revoked by Bill 34, which amended Article 54.
Since then it's pretty much free range naming.
Nope, just a guy I've known very superficially for about a decade. He's pretty smart, I think he's a professor.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the government has given up keeping an eye on naming. Here's a story from 2009 about them querying the middle name Avalanche:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2009/05/05/montreal-babyname-0505.html
2010, they queried the name Zöé:
http://www.nancy.cc/2010/02/28/baby-name-zoe-rejected-then-approved-in-quebec/
Item from 2006 on the phenomenon of unusual naming – prof quoted in the item as saying "Il ne faut pas sombrer dans la marginalité gratuite."
You have to wonder about the sanity of parents who deliberately give their children problematic names, such as the following:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152679/New-Jersey-parents-named-children-Adolf-Hitler-Aryan-Nation-back.html