Fell into a bit of a rabbit hole and learned that it took German law until 2008 to actually allow unisex/gender-neutral first names: https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/entscheidungen/rk20081205_1bvr057607.html 🤦
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I reckon up until then you had to have another first name that clearly differentiated. Didn’t read through the court decision, though.
Interesting, I always thought that Kiran was a male first name. But I only know one person with that name. As last name, though.
Now I’m wondering, was that also the beginning when parents started giving their kids really weird names?
I reckon up until then you had to have another first name that clearly differentiated.
Yes, apparently so. (I’m glad we stopped doing that. I don’t get this obsession with the contents of other people’s pants. 🤢)
Now I’m wondering, was that also the beginning when parents started giving their kids really weird names?
Did this ever happen or was this an urban myth? Would have to dig up some statistics, I guess. (Anecdotal evidence: None of the people I know gave their kids crazy names. 😆)