On the territory former USSR and current Russian Federation citizens loved to give their born children unusual, often frightening names. During times Soviet Union parents often used abbreviations to name a minor in honor of a holiday, event, sphere, or person. You can still find people with the names Vladlena (Vladimir Lenin), Dazdraperma (Long Live the First of May), Kim (Communist Youth International), Vector (Great Communism Triumphant), Krarmiya (Red Army), etc. Today it is forbidden to give to children strange, unpronounceable or Not common names according to Federal Law No. 94.
What is the law?
Over the past ten to fifteen years, the problem of names that parents gave to their children has grown increasingly. Due to complete freedom of choice and the creation of fictitious nicknames in computer games, the generation that grew up and gave birth to children began to invent incredible names for their children. Officials from the State The Duma thought about this unconditional parental right.
The most notorious case is considered to be when parents gave their child the name BOC rVF 260602. This is an abbreviation that stands for “Biological Object Man of the Voronin-Frolov family, born on June 26, 2002.” During the first years of his life, the minor did not understand why adults were surprised when they heard his name, but as he got a little older, he began to suffer because of this. Other children teased him, it was awkward to dictate given name to anyone, etc.
Parents began to add numbers, signs, curse words, titles, abbreviations to the names of their own children, and named their children after fictional characters TV series, books or films. There were also several cases in Russia when parents named their child Lucifer.
Current information on changes made to Federal Law No. 58
To eliminate cases where parents come up with inappropriate names for their children, to protect the rights of children and allow them to protect themselves from nicknames that insult their honor, State Duma(namely Valentin Petrenko) a special bill was put forward. The law was adopted and its information was added to the Federal Law on Civil Acts. state, in Art. number 18. According to this article, registration authorities have the right to refuse persons who choose an inappropriate name.
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Federal Law on amendments to Article 58 of the RF IC and Article 18 Federal Law on acts of civil status was adopted by the State Duma on April 21, 2017, and approved by the Federation Council on April 26, 2017. The law contains two articles and controls and regulates amendments to the relevant articles to abolish the right of parents to choose any name for their own child.
In the new Article 58 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation, the first paragraph lists restrictions that cannot be used when naming a minor. If parents refuse to change the name to a more acceptable name, they will be denied registration of the child and will be held liable. The second part of this article contains information that the surname of a minor must necessarily correspond to the surname of one of the parents. A double surname with a hyphen is allowed, but on the condition that all full-born children of this family will bear such a surname. Any other changes in the surname are also strictly prohibited.
Federal Law 94 also amends Article 18 of the Federal Law on civil acts. state, which describes information about registering the names and surnames of newborn babies in maternity hospitals.
What names are prohibited in Russia?
The new law on children's names provides citizens with a list of restrictions and choices.
List of prohibited symbols, signs and letters in the name of a minor:
- Any numbers, code elements, program values, any numerals, dates or numbers. As an example, when registering a nickname in computer game the date of birth is added to the name (Irina2403, Alexander 111, etc.);
- Any phrases or words that insult the child or the citizens around him, curses, obscenities, words that have an ambiguous meaning, etc.;
- Punctuation marks. It is acceptable to use a hyphen once, like Anna - Maria, Lisa - Veronica, other punctuation marks are strictly prohibited;
- Titles, ranks or status such as Prince or Count are also strictly prohibited for use in this area.
Some provisions of the described law are going to be abolished. Abbreviations in the area described have been used for a long time and the population has become accustomed to them, so this clause of the law will be repealed. This category abbreviations have been used since the times of the USSR; citizens still call children Dazdraperma, Kira, Vladlena, etc.
There were cases when parents called their children animal names or purposefully gave the girl the masculine Alyosha or Kirill, and the boy the feminine Svetlana or Maria. After the adoption of this law, civil registry office employees have the right to refuse such parents to register their child.
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Also, in the past, registration authorities have encountered the following strange names that were given to children:
- Amethyst;
- Mister;
- Joy;
- Sun;
- Casper;
- Birch;
- Messiah;
- Eros;
- Luke - Happiness Summerset Ocean.
Such “nicknames” will influence future life minor, negatively affecting his psychological health. For this reason, the described law obliges the authorities and gives them powers to protect the interests of citizens under 18 years of age. If parents intend to register an invalid name, registry staff. authorities refuse them this and draw up a list of acceptable names that the mother and father can choose.
The responsibility of parents who refuse to name the baby as one of the items on the acceptable list is that the child will be registered as a “minor without parents” and the case will be transferred to the guardianship and trusteeship authorities.
Read the Federal Law on Guardianship and Trusteeship in the Russian Federation of 2018
List of the most popular names in Russia
The law prohibiting unusual names allows the child's parents to choose only acceptable names; registration authorities can provide a compiled list. After the law came into force, citizens began to adhere to traditions.
According to 2017 statistics, the most frequently used male names are:
- Alexander;
- Artem;
- Maxim;
- Michael;
- Ivan;
- Daniel;
- Dmitry;
- Matvey;
- Andrey;
- Kirill.
According to 2017 statistics, the most frequently used female names are:
- Sofia;
- Anna;
- Victoria;
- Alice;
- Pauline;
- Anastasia;
- Elizabeth;
- Alexandra;
- Daria;
- Maria.
Over the past few years, it has become popular among Russians to give children Old Church Slavonic or Old Russian names. According to statistics for 2017, the following have become very common: Matvey, Svyatoslav, Svetogor, Yaroslav, Lyubava, Milana and Adela. Citizens who want to name their child according to old Russian traditions can rest assured, new law does not apply to these names. The ban can only affect Fun, since according to the interpretations of the current time, this word has an ambiguous meaning.
Otherwise, parents have complete freedom in choosing a name for their own child.
Download the new law on children's names in the Russian Federation
Statistically, almost every family has one or two children, so all citizens living on the territory of the Russian Federation are recommended to familiarize themselves with the text of the described law. The text of the law sets out clear restrictions and rules that all Russian citizens, without exception, must follow.
You can download the Federal Law “On Amendments to Article 58 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation and Article 18 of the Federal Law on Acts of Civil Status” dated May 1, 2017 N 94-FZ
Another, but quite reasonable, legislative initiative came out of the Duma offices. One of the parliamentary parties has begun to develop a bill that would prohibit the use of numbers, punctuation marks and various symbols. And I would enter single list names for the work of civil registry offices.
IN lately In Russia there is a fashion for unusual names. Yes, for last year Only in Moscow were the boys Ogneslav, Maxim-Moskva, girls Legend and Chelsea born.
Tikhons, Virinei, and Zakhars began to appear more often in Rostov. One girl was even named Apollinaria. In short, probably Polina. The other received the name Dominica. My parents simply said they liked it. This name is not Orthodox. But there are also quite a lot of national names. For example, there were Drasdamad and Sirun (which translates from Armenian as “beautiful”). To the ear, such names sound somewhat exotic, but they, naturally, have the right to exist.
One of the unusual names was given to the newborn girl - Alice-Love. Other names of recently born young Donetsk girls:
Ademira, Eva-Maria, Leila, Satenik, Tanzilya, Evelina, Kamala, Kasandra, Evdokia, Lucyena, Yasmina, Aysun, Bozena, Evangelina.
Boys are also called unusual names on the Don: Blagovest, Methodius, Elisha, Amir, Jafar, Eremey, Joseph, Lavrentiy, Bagdasar, Dzhambulat, Natalilyan, Nitai, Odin, Fopen.
But it’s one thing to give a child something old, long ago forgotten name from the old name book. A name that was once popular but is no longer used. And it’s a completely different matter to come up with a new name.
First of all, you need to think about whether the child himself will like the name. The name should not cause ridicule or surprise among people around you. The first name should go well with the last and middle names. The name should be easy to pronounce and evoke positive emotions.
Of course, giving a child a strange, unusual name is the right of the parents, but when the selfishness of the parents is behind the child’s name, the child has to pay for it. Paying with complexes, failures, isolation and the eternal question: “For what?”
Not every adult, not to mention a child, is able to cope with the name imposed on him and with the increased psychological stress. And yet, there have always been and will be strange and unusual names that go beyond all boundaries.
Representatives of the council of one of the parliamentary parties of the State Duma for the development and improvement of legislation intend to ban the use of numbers, punctuation marks and various symbols in children's names.
Today in our country, parents are given complete freedom to choose a name for their child. The registry office does not have the right to refuse to register a child’s name because it is dissonant, offensive, offensive, uncultured, unpronounceable, etc., one of the initiators of the draft law, lawyer Victoria Pashkova, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Meanwhile, creativity in names also flourished in the USSR. Here are just a few gems of that time: Oak (Give us reinforced concrete!), Vaterpezhekosma (Valentina Tereshkova - the first female cosmonaut), Kukutsapol (Corn - the queen of fields), Pofistal (Fascist winner Joseph Stalin) and others.
A similar practice exists in New Zealand. The list of allowed names appeared there after parents wanted to name their child 62 times Justice and 31 times King, six times Lucifer, twice Messiah and Christ; the children were called Cruelty and Bus Stop No. 16.
And here in Russia, in Perm, on October 15 of this year, a boy was born, whom his parents decided to name Lucifer.
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The fascination with unusual names on the territory of the Russian Federation began during the times of the USSR. The children's names were intricate abbreviations containing the name of a holiday or the name and field of activity of a certain historical figure. Some of them have successfully taken root; children are still called them today. (Vladlen – “Vladimir Lenin”, Gertrude – “Heroine of Labor”, Lenora – “Lenin – Our Weapon”, Kim – “Communist International of Youth”). But new wave Russians' fascination with strange and ridiculous nicknames for children has led to the need to introduce a new law on names that are acceptable or not acceptable for assigning to a newborn child.
The problem of ridiculous names has become especially acute in last decade. They contain numbers, nicknames, titles, abbreviations and even swear words. The most famous case is the story of a young Muscovite, whose parents named BOCh rVF 260602 (“Biological Object Man of the Voronin-Frolov family, born June 26, 2002”). The child suffered because of the strange fantasy of his own parents, and was able to change his name to "Igor" only at the age of 14 years.
In order to abolish similar cases, a bill to prohibit the registration in official documentation of strange and insulting nicknames for children, proposed Senator Valentina Petrenko, was adopted in the third (final) reading by the State Duma. According to the new law, civil registry offices of Russia and other registration authorities are authorized to refuse registration to persons who have violated the regulations Art. 18 Federal Law “On acts of civil status”. From now on, citizens of the Russian Federation are limited in their right to choose unusual names for their own children.
On April 21, 2017, the State Duma adopted the Federal Law “On Amendments to Article 58 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation and Article 18 of the Federal Law “On Civil Status Acts” No. 94-FZ. This law provides for amendments regulating the actions of parents when choosing names for children at birth.
According to the actual amendment protecting the rights of children, a name cannot be offensive or contain numerals or punctuation marks other than a hyphen. If the clause is not observed 1 article 58 of a valid law, parents will be denied registration of their children as new citizens of the Russian Federation.
According to parts 2 of the article in question, the surname of the children must correspond to one of the surnames of the parents. This can be either the father's surname or the mother's surname. A double surname is given to a child provided that all full-born children of a given family have one. A double surname consists of two words joined by a hyphen. Other additional inserts are strictly prohibited by law.
The current law 94-FZ also provides for amendments to Article 18 of the Federal Law “On Acts of Civil Status”, adopted on September 15, 1998. The changes also regulate the provision of names to newborn children. (clause 2) and last names (clause 1) in accordance with current law.
What is it wrong to name children in Russia?
The new law on child names will define a list of unacceptable practices when choosing a name for a newborn.
It is considered unacceptable to have:
- Digits, numerals, numbers, dates, computer coding elements ( Ivan I, Natasha2010, Igor No. 2, Yaroslav100110);
- Punctuation marks with the exception of the hyphen, in which case the hyphen should not be used more than once ( Lyudmila/Kira, Arseny-Nikita-Svyatogor);
- Names of ranks, positions, titles, various professions ( Princess, Prince);
- Profanity, words with uncertain and ambiguous meaning, swear words, insulting the honor and dignity of both the child himself and the surrounding citizens of the Russian Federation.
It is believed that the law's abbreviation provision will be repealed. Many of them have long since taken root since the times of the USSR and do not cause negative bewilderment among citizens of the Russian Federation. Of course, this does not mean Dazdraperma (“Long Live the First of May”) and Kukutsapol (“Corn – Queen of the Fields”), but quite familiar Vladlen and Kira (“Red Banner Revolution”).
Also, registry offices have the right to refuse to register names that do not correspond to the moral principles characteristic of citizens of the Russian Federation. According to the records of the population registration authorities, there are cases when parents give male name girl and vice versa (example - Alyosha-Kaprina), sometimes it comes down to animal names ( Tuzik, Murka).
Also, citizens named as follows often appear in the registers of civil registry offices:
- Lucifer;
- Batman;
- Luca-Happiness Summerset Ocean;
- Eros;
- Messiah;
- Fun.
Often the wild creative imagination of the child’s parents has negative consequences for his future. The current law on children's names authorizes the responsible authorities to protect the interests of a minor citizen. If registration is refused, parents who insist on their decision are offered a list of acceptable names.
If they do not agree, and in this case, according to the new bill, the child is registered as abandoned, and his future fate guardianship authorities decide.
The most popular names in Russia
The majority of citizens of the Russian Federation, nevertheless, give preference to traditions.
The most popular male names, According to statistics for the current year, these are:
- Alexander;
- Vladimir;
- Dmitry;
- Sergey;
- Daniel;
- Artyom.
According to data for the statistical period of 2017, girls in Russia are most often called:
- Anna;
- Ekaterina;
- Maria;
- Natalia;
- Olga;
- Elena.
In the last decade, it has become very common old Russians and Slavic names . These include Svyatoslav, Yaroslav, Dragomir, Lyubomir, Lyubava, Milana and even Dobrynya. It should be noted that the law banning unusual names does not apply to such an ancient tradition in the new world. The only exception is Fun- because of its ambiguity in modern interpretation this word.
Download the text of the new law on children's names
To familiarize yourself with the new provision of the current Federal Law “On Amendments to Art. 58 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation and Article 18 of the Federal Law “On Acts of Civil Status” No. 94-FZ, the current text of the amendments can be downloaded
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Often parents want to reward their children rare name, but they don’t always succeed. Governments of many countries are trying to protect their newborn citizens from awkward situations in the future and even create lists of banned names. True, everyone’s criteria are different, and if in France you are prohibited from calling a child an offensive word, then in Saudi Arabia They won’t let you call your daughter Queen, even if the word is not at all offensive.
In many countries, the laws governing baby names are based on a simple principle: the name should not sound like a curse word or an offensive word, and should not cause problems for the child in the future. However, in some states the ban may apply to quite ordinary names if they violate cultural traditions.
In this country, names must be traditionally Portuguese, clearly denote gender, and should not resemble nicknames. To make it easier for parents to navigate the rules, a special list of allowed names has been compiled.
- Banned names: Rihanna, Nirvana, Viking, Sayonara, Jimmy.
Germany
In Switzerland, as in Germany, the name must be approved by the citizen registration department. You cannot use last names, names of biblical villains, names of brands or geographical places as names. Can't be given to boys female names and vice versa. Any offensive, shocking, or laughter-inducing options are prohibited.
- Banned names: Cain, Judas, Brooklyn, Chanel, Mercedes, Paris (Paris).
United Kingdom
Names that may harm anyone, exceed 100 characters, and resemble titles or ranks are prohibited. Therefore, for example, the name is prohibited Justice: the word not only means “justice”, but also serves as an address to judges.
- Banned names: ".", Fat Man, Lucifer, Jesus Christ, From Hawaii Talulah Dances Hula, Constable, Saint, Chief Maximus, 4real, Mafia No Fear.
China
Previously, in China it was forbidden to name children after the current emperor. Today, the limitations are related to language: Chinese has 70,000 characters, but not all of them are machine readable. Accordingly, the name is selected so that it can be entered into a computer form.
Mexico
