Persons who do not have a first name are obligated to adopt one when they are entered into the Finnish national population database. The Names Act of 1985 requires that all Finnish citizens and residents have at least one and at the most four first names. In British Columbia, the Vital Statistics Act requires the registrar general to reject a proposed name or an amendment to an existing name if the name "might reasonably be expected to cause (i) mistake or confusion, or embarrassment to the child or another person, is sought for an improper purpose, or is, on any other ground, objectionable". Naming laws vary from province to province. Over 200 names have been proscribed by Azerbaijan as of 2015, including "the names of persons who have perpetrated aggression against the people of Azerbaijan" (including names seen as "Armenian" ) and "names whose meaning is offensive in the Azerbaijani language". Some examples of names banned nationally are: In 2017 a list of purportedly prohibited names was leaked from the Victorian register of Births, Deaths and Marriages some examples of which are below: Most states prohibit names that are too long, include unpronounceable symbols such as !, or # (apart from hyphens between names), that include official titles or are otherwise obscene or offensive. In Australia, naming laws are governed by the States and Territories which may have differing restrictions. Many countries around the world have such laws, with most governing the meaning of the name, while some only govern the scripts in which it is written. A naming law restricts the names that parents can legally give to their children, usually to protect the child from being given an offensive or embarrassing name.
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