https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:20:35 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/icelandic-girl-cant-use-her-given-name-because-its-not-on-the-government-approved-names-list#post-478177 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:07:55 +0000 Mrs. Pen 478177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>omg!!! I love the name Blaire and Blaer is just like that! I think it's adorable and that is so stupid!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/icelandic-girl-cant-use-her-given-name-because-its-not-on-the-government-approved-names-list#post-478166 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:05:01 +0000 ladyfingers 478166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought it was interesting that nobody really uses their surnames there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/icelandic-girl-cant-use-her-given-name-because-its-not-on-the-government-approved-names-list#post-478142 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:58:07 +0000 knittylady 478142@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just read about this! Yeah the names database seems rather small! DH has lots of family in Sweden (I know, far away from Iceland, but Iceland is sometimes considered scandinavian!) and I noticed that there seem to be a lot fewer surnames and first names there too..... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/icelandic-girl-cant-use-her-given-name-because-its-not-on-the-government-approved-names-list#post-478138 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:56:25 +0000 jedeve 478138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was just going to post this! I'd be OK if we had standardized spelling in the US. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/icelandic-girl-cant-use-her-given-name-because-its-not-on-the-government-approved-names-list#post-478136 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:55:39 +0000 Shutterbug 478136@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladyfingers: and also, "Halldor" is ok but "Blaer" is not? I guess it sounds different in Icelandic ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/icelandic-girl-cant-use-her-given-name-because-its-not-on-the-government-approved-names-list#post-478098 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:42:37 +0000 .twist. 478098@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladyfingers: Yea, I feel like Blaer fits right in with Icelandic culture and all their crazy words! </p> <p>I'd sue them too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/icelandic-girl-cant-use-her-given-name-because-its-not-on-the-government-approved-names-list#post-478094 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:42:07 +0000 runsyellowlites 478094@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow. That's a little bit ridiculous to me, and not a very large name database. I hope she's allowed to use her given name here soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/icelandic-girl-cant-use-her-given-name-because-its-not-on-the-government-approved-names-list#post-478091 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:39:55 +0000 ladyfingers 478091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: Yeah, it sounds like "Blair" to me! I think Bjork is a much stranger name ;)</p> <p>ETA: The reasoning is so weird! "This time, the panel turned it down on the grounds that the word Blaer takes a masculine article, despite the fact that it was used for a female character in a novel by Iceland's revered Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/icelandic-girl-cant-use-her-given-name-because-its-not-on-the-government-approved-names-list#post-478089 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:38:48 +0000 .twist. 478089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was totally expecting a crazy name, but it's not really crazy and I really can't see why they're not allowing it. Stupid. </p> <p>I get it for some names, like wiggy-watta or something, but blaer? wtf. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/icelandic-girl-cant-use-her-given-name-because-its-not-on-the-government-approved-names-list#post-478087 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:36:17 +0000 ladyfingers 478087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p><a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/03/16320630-teen-legally-known-only-as-girl-battles-to-use-her-own-name?lite" rel="nofollow">http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/03/16320630-teen-legally-known-only-as-girl-battles-to-use-her-own-name?lite</a></p> <p>I go back and forth between "Government-approved names? Awful!" and "Hm, maybe that would be useful here..." </p> <p>;) </p>