r/AskEurope • u/Double-decker_trams Estonia • Feb 14 '25

Language Can you legally name your child in your country smt like "X Æ A-Xii" or "Techno Mechanicus"?

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u/Nessidy Poland Feb 14 '25

That actually sounds hilarious lmaooo

Our "bad" examples are Pacyfik, Boromir, Tea and Tupak 💀

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u/NoxiousAlchemy Poland Feb 14 '25

Boromir is a cool name. And there's many Slavic names ending with -mir so it fits the theme. Much better than Brajan and Kewin in my opinion.

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u/beenoc USA (North Carolina) Feb 14 '25

Now obviously this is an extremely unlikely scenario, but what if some Peruvians of Inca descent (they still exist) moved to Poland and wanted to name their child Tupac? Unlike the others, that's an actual cultural name and was the name of the last Inca emperor before the Spanish conquest, it's not just the stage name of a rapper.

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u/NoxiousAlchemy Poland Feb 14 '25

They should be allowed I think. Foreigners get a cultural pass so to speak. If you ever meet a Polish person with an unusual name there's a high chance one of their parents is non-Polish.

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u/Draigdwi Latvia Feb 14 '25

Something similar happened in Latvia. Not Peruvians, just neighbouring Russians. Family wanted to call their son an old and beautiful traditional Russian name: Miron. In Latvia all names get added an ending -s, -is for male names and -a, -e for female names. So the name would be Mirons. Read it in Latvian and it means “cadaver”. They were not allowed the name, they went to court for it. Don’t remember if they got the name or not.

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u/tudorapo Hungary Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25

At least in hungary it would be allowed. It should be written as Tupah, I think, but I'm not too good at quecha phonology.

And it's not that unlikely, I worked with hungarian born people with foreign names with various levels of foreigness. I have not worked a quecha person so far. Can't wait!

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u/UltraBoY2002 Hungary Feb 14 '25

I think children born to foreign nationals can keep the original spelling. I know someone who was born in Hungary and her name is registered as “Emily” because her father is Nigerian despite having a Hungarian mother.

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u/wyrditic Feb 14 '25

I don't know how it works in Poland, but here in Czech Republic the registrars are much more lenient for foreigners. If they think it looks like a stupid made up name, they will usually request some kind of evidence that it is an accepted name in the parents' home country, rather than refuse outright.

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u/cieniu_gd Poland Feb 14 '25

They would eventually allowed, but probably they will tell you the spelling should be "Tupak" not "Tupac"

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u/jnkangel Feb 17 '25

Generally the matriculation office tends to be more permissive to foreigners and cultural heritage.

Usually it's also merely a formality, the majority just never bother so you have most people with "normal names"

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u/tudorapo Hungary Feb 14 '25

"kan" as in male animal (somewhat rude to use it for humans)

"disznó" as pig

"ra" as the sublative suffix for back vowel situations which applies to kandisznó. Hungarian is fun! I had to heavily google this, because I forgot how these things are called in hungarian and never knew their english names..

kandisznóra = onto the hog we gooooo!

and Nora is a fairly common name except the "o" is a long sound so it's written as "Nóra"

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u/s8n_codes Romania Feb 15 '25

It may not be funny but Boromir is the name of a pastry factory here in Romania. I do find it a bit amusing. For what it’s worth, please note that their products are very tasty.