Recently a couple in New Zealand were forbidden from naming their baby son 4Real. Even小题1:New Zea

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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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