In Australia, naming laws are governed by the states and territories which may have differing restrictions.
Names cannot have surname character, and must follow Danish orthography (e.g. Cammmilla with three m's is not allowed).
Persons who do not have a first name are obligated to adopt one when they are entered into the Finnish national population database.
[16] Since 1993 the choice has been free in France unless it is decided that the name is contrary to the interests of the child.
It is recommended to use the exactly same spelling in the machine-readable zone of the passport for airline tickets, visas, etc.
Applications are considered by the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences following a set of principles.
[26] The Icelandic Naming Committee maintains the list and hears requests for exceptions.
The document requires names to be written in the Latin script, not a mononym (at least consisting of 2 words) and not more than 60 characters, including spaces (although the Citizenship and Civil Registry claimed in 2021 that names were limited to 55 characters[27]).
Names must not insult the Islamic religion or public morality, and they must not be associated with the opposite sex.
It is permitted to change one's name or surname once in seven years, or even earlier provided the Ministry of Interior agrees.
[40] On and after 2006, the National Registration Department of Malaysia (JPN) may decline to register objectionable or undesirable names, including names based on titles, numbers, colors, vegetables, fruits, vulgarities, and equipment.
Parents who wish to register such names despite JPN objection must make a statutory declaration to that effect.
[41][42] In 2014, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Peya Mushelenga proposed banning offensive baby names such as "Shame on you" and "Ndalipo" (lit.
[43] Under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act of 1995, names are prohibited which "might cause offence to a reasonable person; or [...] is unreasonably long; or without adequate justification, [...] is, includes, or resembles, an official title or rank.
"[19][44] This is determined by the Department of Internal Affairs, which is responsible for registering names at birth.
[18] The most commonly rejected name is "Justice", which is a formal title for judges in New Zealand.
The newer naming law (Swedish: lag om personnamn) states it identically.
[60] The Tajik government has used the word "prostitute" to label hijab wearing women and enforced shaving of beards, in addition to considering the outlawing of Arabic-Islamic names for children and making people use Tajik names.
[61][62][63][64][65] Tajikistan President Rakhmon (Rahmon) has said that the Persian epic Shahnameh should be used as a source for names, with his proposed law hinting that Muslim names would be forbidden after his anti hijab and anti beard laws.
Courts have interpreted the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment as generally supporting the traditional parental right to choose their children's names.
The Office of Vital Records in the California Department of Public Health does not require that names containing other than the 26 alphabetical characters of the English language be accepted.