Swedish couple fight to name son 'Q'

[ShatteredWings]

STOCKHOLM (AFP) – A couple in Sweden has appealed to the country's supreme court in their fight to name their baby boy "Q", legal papers showed Friday.

Judges ruled in the couple's first appeal in January that Q was not an "appropriate" name for a child, arguing that Swedish law forbade names consisting of just one letter.

In their written appeal to Sweden's Supreme Court, the parents Rickard Rehnberg and Thitathorn Sukjit called on judges to reverse the previous ruling.

"There is now a child who answers to the name of Q. What does Sweden gain by forcing him to take on a new name?" they said.

In an earlier judgement in September 2008, Rehnberg and Sukjit told the court they had named the boy Q after the eccentric inventor from the James Bond films, a claim they have not since repeated.

The Swedish Supreme Court was expected to give its verdict within the coming months.

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Do you really want to doom your kid to be a stuck up ass who thinks he can do everything as he pleases?

[Sage]

Pshhh, what? Q is an awesome name.

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

If they really have to change it, why not go with something like Quincey, which starts with a Q as it is. They could call him "Q", as a nick-name. If the child already answers to Q, it wouldn't be good to change it entirely.

I've heard of cases that were much worse, such as a couple wanting to name their newborn daughter Chlamydia. They had recently immigrated from Mexico, spoke English, but were still in the learning process. They thought "Chlamydia" was the name of a flower (probably got it confused with Chrysanthemum, I think). A social worker was called in to explain to them why they couldn't name their child Chlamydia, because the law prohibits names which will cause trauma to the child in the future. As far as I know, they understood the mistake and picked something else. In comparison, though, "Q" isn't that bad.

Oh, and, Gwyn. How is this going to make the child stuck-up? I wasn't sure on that one... :confused:

[Oblivion]

Pshhh, what? Q is an awesome name.

Yeah, I wish my name consisted of one letter! :D

According to www.Wikipedia.org there have been names such as: Ima Hogg, Ima Pigg, Ima Muskrat, Ima Nut, Ima Hooker, Ima Weiner, Ima Reck, Ima Pain and Ima Butt.

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

Wow, seriously? Like, is there proof of that? Or is it speculation, because wikipedia is sometimes not very reliable... I always thought names like that were urban legends, like Mike Rotch, Seymour Butts, or Anita Bath. xP

[ShatteredWings]

Oh, and, Gwyn. How is this going to make the child stuck-up? I wasn't sure on that one... :confused:
That's a refercne to the charecter Q on star trek next generation....

[Donkey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg

"Ima Hogg has been the source of "unfortunate name" or "worst baby name" jokes, lists, and contests,[15][16][17][18] including the incorrect lore that Jim Hogg had named his two daughters "Ima Hogg" and "Ura Hogg".[19][20] Similar unfortunate baby names according to United States Census records include Ima Pigg, Ima Muskrat, Ima Nut, Ima Hooker,[15] Ima Weiner, Ima Reck, Ima Pain and Ima Butt.[20]"

[TigerLily]

If you think Ima Hogg is bad... the urban legend name I always heard was Ophelia Dick 0.o

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

Ah, ok Gwyn, I get it now. :)

Wow, so those names really do exist, sometimes. How crazy.

[Reality]

Wasn't there a couple in the U.S. that named their son Adolf Hitler that one time, and a bakery refused to make them a cake for his birthday or something? >_>

[TigerLily]

Wasn't there a couple in the U.S. that named their son Adolf Hitler that one time, and a bakery refused to make them a cake for his birthday or something? >_>

Hitler? Seriously? Imagine that kid in history class... poor, poor kid... stupid, stupid parents....

[ShatteredWings]

Haha i rememebr that story

People really need to stop naming their kids stupid shit

[Antares]

Thats just stupid.
I bet the parents were like 10.
I can understand Que, but that usually abbreviates for something else...so..