Some parents have found themselves in court after trying to give their children inappropriate names.
Mirror Online reports how this has led to laws being created in countries across the world to ban their use.
A US Birth Certificate statement reads: "While the United States of America has somewhat lax naming laws, there are still some names that you aren’t allowed to use for a child.
"While these differ from state to state, having a numeral in your name is mostly not allowed.
"Some states also limit the number of characters that can be used, as well as the inclusion of pictograms, obscenity, foreign characters, symbols, emojis, or any offensive language.
"Certain states also forbid the use of accents and/or non-English letters, which is oftentimes due to the inability of their information systems to process vital records including these characters."
In Kentucky, parents can name their children anything they want, while in California they're not permitted to use accents.
However, the Golden State still allows parents to include hyphens and apostrophes in their baby names, as Elon Musk and Grimes showed when naming their child X AE A-XII.
The names banned in the United States are:
- King
- Queen
- Jesus Christ
- III
- Santa Claus
- Majesty
- Adolf Hitler
- Messiah
- @
- 1069
The US isn't the only country in the world to have banned certain baby names, as the United Kingdom, New Zealand and China, among others, have too.
List of names illegal across the world:
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