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in reply to a message by Irish
I do not believe there are laws so much as just family, cultural or ethnic tradition and/or superstitions affliated with names. For instance, how many folks has anyone met named: Judas or Jezebel?
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Plenty of Judes, though. And I believe that during the Puritan period in England at least, any biblical name was considered fine, regardless of what the character was famous for - people would sometimes let their bibles fall open at random and give the new baby the first name on the page. At that time, Jezebel was used for sure; though I don't think they'd have been brave enough to go the Jesus route.
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In the Spanish form Judas, it isn't allowed (sentence 31/10/94 for the Civil Register) for the negative connotations in common use in Spain (e. g., in Spanish "ser un Judas", "to be a Jude", is an expression that also means "to be a traitor"). For extension, the Catalan (Judes), Galician (Xudas) and Basque (Juda) aren't allowed. But i don't know what could happen with less evident forms (Yehudah), because the judges are, very often, ignorant and incoherent in sentences about names.
At Idescat (the Catalan Service of Statistics) there are 5 Jude and 9 Juda or Judà, but it isn't possible to know if they are people born in Catalonia or foreigners named like this living in Catalonia.
At Idescat (the Catalan Service of Statistics) there are 5 Jude and 9 Juda or Judà, but it isn't possible to know if they are people born in Catalonia or foreigners named like this living in Catalonia.
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