This is one of those stories that makes you glad you live in a country where the government can’t tell you what you can name your child – or possibly make you wish that perhaps you did:
Metallica may be a cool name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to convince officials it is also suitable for a baby girl.
Michael and Karolina Tomaro are locked in a court battle with Swedish authorities, which rejected their application to name their six-month-old child after the legendary rock band.
“It suits her,” Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. “She’s decisive and she knows what she wants.”
Their other child is named Slayer. No, no, I’m just teasing you.
As noted, here in the US (where most of the Ficleteers live) you can name your child any damn thing you want, but I think we’ve all run across folks who have named their children, well, poorly. I know none named Metallica yet, however. I consider myself lucky about that. But I think some ficlets with ill-advised baby names could be humorous, to say the least.
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