Couple battles to name baby 4Real !!!!!!!!!!

[Daanyeer]

.................Names that have been rejected previously by the registrar-general on the grounds that they are "likely to cause offense to a reasonable person" include "Satan" and "Adolf Hitler."

Source: NewKerala.com
June 21, 2007

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, June 21: A New Zealand couple have tangled with authorities over the refusal to register "4Real" as the name of their son.

"The name has meaning for us, so why not?" the father of the baby, Patrick Wheaton, told the New Zealand Herald.

"If it was George Bush's child, or the Dalai Lama's, no one would care what it was called," Wheaton said.

He and his wife Sheena said they decided on the name after seeing an ultrasound scan of their baby and realizing it was "for real."

The couple said the chose the spelling "4Real" because it was the clearest and simplest way of writing it down.

A statement by the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, reported by the Herald, said the name hadn't been rejected at this stage and that discussions were ongoing in an attempt to clarify the situation.

"Unusual names are considered on a case-by-case basis," the statement said.

Names that have been rejected previously by the registrar-general on the grounds that they are "likely to cause offense to a reasonable person" include "Satan" and "Adolf Hitler."

[1_londoner]

4real?

[hanad_mn]

4real maxay dhib ah oo ay leedahay. I don't see anything weird in it. My friend's name is S***lfurkiis and girls get offended when we called him.