Recently, a couple in New Zealand were forbidden from naming their baby son 4Real. Even小题1:New Zealand has quite free rules about小题2:children, names beginning with a小题3:are not allowed. They decided to call him Superman小题4:.
In many countries around the world,小题5:names for children are becoming more popular. In Britain, you can call a child almost小题6:you like. The only restrictions on parents小题7:to offensive(冒犯的) words such as swear words.
小题8:parents choose names which come from小题9:culture. For example, there have been six boys named Gandalf小题10:the character in the Lord of the Rings(指环王) novels and films.小题11:, names related to sport are fairly common –小题12:1984, 36 children have been called Arsenal(阿森纳) after the football team. Other parents like to小题13:names, or combine names to make their own小题14:names, a method demonstrated (证实的) by Jordan, the British model,小题15:recently invented the name Tiaamii for her daughter by小题16:names Thea and Amy (the two grandmothers).
Some names which were previously小题17:as old-fashioned have小题18:popular again, but the most popular names are not the strange小题19:. The top names are fairly小题20:, for example, Jack, Charlie and Thomas for boys and Grace, Ruby and Jessica for girls.
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