For tastes, the colors. If this saying comes true, it is in the choice of the baby’s name. There are names for all tastes, and of course there are some very extravagant and others of very doubtful taste. We recently discussed the latest craze for naming babies Pokémon, and so there are tons of names that may never have crossed your mind.
What would you do if they didn’t let you give your baby the name you have chosen? Some parents from Madrid decided to call their baby ‘Wolf’, but they prevent it . If they do not propose an alternative name, he will be the one who will impose the baby’s name. With cases like this, the debate reopens about whether parents have the right to choose the name they want for their child, whatever it is, where is the limit? Who decides?
Why ‘wolf’?
They decided to call him that because “we are lovers of this animal”, declare Ignacio and María, the child’s parents, who after his birth approached the civil registry of Fuenlabrada to register their son, they were refused to do so with that name, because it could be offensive for the development of the child. Just as Paloma, León or Dolphin are accepted animal names for humans, “what is the difference with wolf?”, The parents wonder.
Lobo is the contemporary hispanization of the Italian ‘Lupo’, it means Wolf, that is, strength, cunning and intelligence .
What the law says
Article 54 of the Civil Registry Law and Article 192 of the Civil Registry Regulations are the ones that determine the limits to the freedom of choice of name.
“Names that objectively harm the person are prohibited.”
In addition, it indicates that the Resolution of the General Directorate of Registries and Notaries dated October 18, 2005 has already ruled on the imposition of the proper name ‘Lobo’. In his Foundation III he recalls that
“Names that make identification confusing are prohibited and this prohibition undoubtedly extends to the proposed name, which corresponds to a special surname.”
Although in the first place they were told that they did not accept that name because it could be offensive to the child, later the reason they were given is that as Lobo is a surname in Spain they cannot accept it as their own name , something that parents no longer understand. that “there are many surnames in this country that coincide with proper names” such as ‘León’.
They have started a petition on Change.org to allow them to register their child as ‘Wolf’, just as they planned during the pregnancy. That is how they began to call him when he was inside his mother’s womb and also after birth.
They ask that the current legislation be changed and that “if someone must decide to what extent a name can mark the life of a person, it should not be a mere official or a judge, but a team of psychologists or pedagogues specialized in the matter.”
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