Venerdi: Italy - Name meaning: The Italian word for "Friday." - Reason for ban: It could cause mockery and bullying. An Italian court ordered the parents of this little boy to rename him "Gregorio," saying the original name was associated with "subservience and inferiority" in Daniel Defoe's novel "Robinson Crusoe."
ROME (AP) – Friday's child is loving and giving – but not if he lives in Italy. Italian judges forbade a couple from naming their son Friday, saying it would bring the child shame and ridicule to be named after the character in “Robinson Crusoe.”
Names with symbols like %, $, *, #, and @ are prohibited. Good To Know: While numbers (1, 2, 3…) can't be used, ordinal numbers can be used, and are: Primo, Secondo, Terzo…
Gender confusion prevented a German boy being Matti, because the sex of the baby wouldn't be obvious.
The first male/female is named after the paternal grandfather/mother. The second male/female is named after the maternal grandfather/mother. The third son/daughter is named after the father (named "Junior" or "the II" nowadays for the boy) or as example, Giovanna (for Giovanni) for the daughter.
While many countries avoid the number 13, Italians are more fearful of the number 17. This fear stems from the fact that the number 17's Roman numeral, XVII, is an anagram of VIXI, which means “I have lived” in Latin. Some consider this a bad omen as it implies that death is just around the corner.
Italy. Spouses keep their original surnames. According to the Italian Civil Code (article 143 bis), a woman who marries keeps her surname and has the option of adding her husband's surname after hers. Non-Italian citizens getting married in Italy will not have their surname changed in Italy.
Linda was banned by Saudi Arabia's Civil Status Department for being a name based on religious connections or because it broke from "social traditions." This is because the name is incredibly western for their country.
Sarah: Morocco
- Reason for ban: It's not traditionally Moroccan. Moroccan parents must choose baby names from a government-approved list that fit the “Moroccan identity.” The Hebrew name “Sarah” did not make the cut.
Linda is illegal in Saudi Arabia. In the United States we have the right to name our children pretty much anything we want. But many countries have strict baby name laws in place. Even in the U.S., there are some rules.
Fusco: Fusco is derived from the Latin term fuscus, meaning 'dark. ' Fusco was a surname given to someone with dark complexion or hair.
Middle names were the norm in Italy until the 40s and 50s but, since then, they started to gradually become less popular. The Italian tradition about naming a child is to name the firstborn like his/ her grandparent on the father side and the second born like his/ her grandparent on the mother side.
The use of double surnames is legal but not customary in the world. In Italy, children traditionally take their father's surname, except if the child is born outside of marriage ('born out of wedlock'), and in this case, children take the last surname of the parent that first recognises them.
Also, apparently, some cathedrals will not let you enter wearing shorts. I am here to tell you, that this is incorrect. You can wear shorts in Italy and look perfectly normal. Here are a few examples of Italians we saw wearing shorts in Italy when it was in the mid-80s in September.
Keep Your Shirt On
Not only is it offensive to locals to have visitors wandering the streets in varying states of undress, it is also against many local ordinances and you can get fined. A good rule of thumb is to take a look around and see how the locals are dressed.
Frowning. It's unlikely you're going to get fined for this one, but Milan has a law that requires people to smile at any time other than funerals or hospital visits. So turn that frown upside down the next time you're in Italy's fashion capital.
Portugal is another country that has very strict rules about what names it will allow, with one regulation stating you can't give your child a nickname as its official name. Therefore, if you want to call your child Tom, you would have to name him Tomas.
Popularity and usage
After Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany, the name Adolf became popular again, especially in 1933–1934 and 1937. Due to negative associations with Hitler, the name has declined in popularity as a given name for males since the 1940s.
There wasn't too much elaboration on why Alice – along with names like Elaine, Linda and Sandy – was to be banned other than the statement that these names 'contradict the culture and religion' of the country. Banned names include 'foreign' names, along with names related to royalty and ones considered blasphemous.
What was once the most popular name in the United States is forbidden in Saudi Arabia. In that country, certain names are “banned because they were not in line with 'social traditions," The Washington Post reports. Maya, Emir, Yara, and Laureen were also on the list.
The name Harriet, they ruled, couldn't fit within those grammar rules. The problem with “Duncan” was even more straightforward; there's no “C” in the Icelandic language. The Committee rejected the children's names.
If you have been married for more than two years and living in Italy for this same period, you are entitled to obtain Italian citizenship. However, if you are married to an Italian citizen and living aboard, you can obtain Italian citizenship within three years.
In some states, married women could not legally vote under their maiden name until the mid-1970s. The opposite—a man taking his wife's name—remains incredibly rare: In a recent study of 877 heterosexual married men, less than 3 percent took their wife's name when they got married.
An italian married woman is usually addressed as "signora" followed by her surname/family name or the surname/family name of her husband.