Earl Bagina.
Lotsa hits!
Peace,
mangeorge
Is his first name Joe? If so, it would’ve been pretty neat if you gave him an “O” middle name: J.O.E.
Also, are you familiar with The Grapist? 
His name is Joseph Daniel, but we call him Joe D, with emphasis on the D. I get very, um, irritated when people say it to sound like ‘Jody’.
Anyhow, yeah, that would have been neat, to have initials matching his first name.
What’s a ‘grapist’?
IIRC, it’s not pronounced. And he’s been Prince again for quite a while, ever since the whole debacle with his record label not letting him record as Prince ended.
I went to high school with Michael Hunt.
Junior.
Has a child ever grown up and brutally murdered its parent(s) for the name they gave him? Is it really that difficult to believe that this could happen? It’s a cruel world and DSS might not be the worst thing to worry about. I started seeing this girl a few weeks ago and she told me that at her divorce proceeds she asked the judge to please not make her return to her maiden name (Dix ). I agreed with her. I said that that was an unfortunate name to go through school for 16 years with.
“My name is Sue. How do you do? And now, you’re gonna die!”
One might also add Nazi Mohammed, a prominent college basketball player a few years ago (I presume he’s since gone pro). Admittedly, it’s pronounced differently than the name of Hitler’s party, but still.
Uh, oh… Did I just Godwinize this thread?
I don’t think the judge (any judge) can make anyone use any specific name.
> 1996 – In August, Russell Lawrence Lee, 64, an African American man
> who said he wanted to defuse the racial tension permeating America at
> the time of Det. Mark Fuhrmann’s trial testimony, filed papers in Ventura
> County, Calif., to change his name to Mister Radical Aidid Supernigger.
Can’t find the original article I read years ago, but this sums it up. No word whether the judge approved the name change.
This has been very interesting, but no one has actually answered the OP.
The hospital surely cannot, on it’s own authority, refuse to put whatever the naming parent wants on the birth certificate. So how could any name, however ridiculous, be (officially) banned?
The aforementioned “Bagina”, while confusing to our somewhat silly societal mores, seems to be a “real” name. Are we to ban the name because it sounds like “vagina?” I know a guy who’s last name is Foote. Should we ban that? What about Harry?
Senator Harry Bagina. 
Can anybody cite some law that restricts naming of one’s child?
No, because his name is actually Nazr Mohammed. He went to the same school I did, the University of Kentucky. (Go Cats!)
Huh. I’m pretty sure I saw it spelled as “Nazi”, but Google only gives 36 hits for “Nazi Mohammed” (with quotes), and I’d expect more than that even if it were just misspelled in some news media. So I guess I sort of have to blame myself, here.
So split the difference. Try Nazir Mohammed. Lots of hits (170 or so), but I was too lazy to sort through them all.
Langmaker: “France, Germany and Scandinavia all have lists of approved first names; a baby must be given an approved name, or the child will not be legally recognized.”
New York Times: “Picked baby’s name? Not so fast, in Denmark.”
I’d pay to see the christening, just to see how the preacher handles it.
Then I *will * Godwinize the thread by mentioning Hitler and Mussolini, two well-stablished, middle-aged engineers in my country. The parents were of middle-eastern descent, so I can only imagine that the reason behind this was hatred for the Jews.
The Catholic priest who baptized them refused to use the names, so they have a legal name and a Christian name.
Well, no, we don’t have a law that rules the naming of children. Maybe we should.
Yes, I believe they could. The hospital, after all, is just doing this as a convenience for the parents*; the official birth certificate is the paperwork filed with the local clerk of court or similar.
The hospital could simply put “baby boy” or “baby girl” on the paperwork, and give that to the parents. (See the recent threads on SMDB ‘Do parents have to give their baby a name before leaving the hospital’.) Then the parents would have to go to the clerk of court to enter the name they wanted. Thus the hospital is out of it; the parents can go fight with the clerk’s office about their ‘obscene’ name.
- Hospitals do this, and other things as a ‘convenience’, and make fairly substantial efforts to make their ‘birthing wing’ attractive and pleasant for parents. Because this is generally a very profitable part of the hospital. And parents can choose to go to any hospital (in their insurance plan) to give birth, unlike emergency medical problems. So hospitals work hard to make new parents happy.
You haven’t Godwinized the thread either, actually. 
Technically, if you’re going to invoke Godwin’s Law, you have to compare someone or something to Hitler. You haven’t made any such comparison. You just mentioned his name.
I used to know a guy named Anus. Apparently his name actually should have been Anas, but his parents (immigrated from somewhere in south Asia) weren’t too clear on proper English spelling. It’s a wonder he survived high school.
An ex-girlfriend’s mother was a social worker in S. Carolina. She dealt with single moms and post-natal care. One client wanted to name her daughter “Euthanasia”, because it sounded “pretty”. Ex-g.f.'s mom tried to intervene, but this antagonized the client, who left her care in a huff. I guess there’s a Euthanasia out there someplace.