State Duma suggested to prescribe by law the names of the selection criteria for children – RBC

Senator Valentina Petrenko introduced a bill to the State Duma, which forbids parents to give their children names that contain profanity, numerals indicate ranks and positions, etc. The document was published on the website of the State Duma.

In particular, the senator proposes to amend Article 19 of the Civil Code (citizen’s name). It proposes to include in the normal definition of the name: “Under the name of the citizen is understood means of individualization of a citizen that can not consist of numeric, alphabetic symbols, numerals, symbols, or any combination thereof, abbreviations, profanity, contain references to the ranks, positions”

in addition, it proposes to amend the law “On civil status acts”, which prohibit register names that do not fall under this definition

in the explanatory memorandum the senator pointed out that the purpose of the bill. – “do not limit the right of parents the opportunity to choose a name for the child, but to find a way of legal maintenance of a balance between their right and the right of the child to a name that would not violate its own interests».

She noted that now authorities of the registrar “has no right to refuse to register the child’s name because of its dissonant, indignity, lack of culture, unpronounceable, etc.”, and employees of these institutions can not in any way affect the choice of the parents. At the same time, the current legislation does not oblige the parents to give their children only those names that are not explicitly violate children’s rights and interests.

Petrenko also led the statistics bodies Civil Registry Office of Moscow, which is conducted since 1998, and identified the most unusual names: Nicholas, Nikita Neal Hristamrirados, Dolphin, Yaroslav-Lutobor, Luka Happiness Summerset Ocean (in boys), as well as in April, Pauline, Pauline, Princess Danielle, Dawn-Zaryanitsa, Alyosha-Caprino, Ocean, Sofia-Sun . (girls)

The Senator also mentioned the history of the name of Boch RVF 260,602 (human biological object kind Voronin – Frolov, born 26.06.2002), which is not allowed for 10 years. The legislator said that the child is still living without documents, as the court sided with the Civil Registry Office in Moscow, refused to register the child with the same name in the protection of his interests. Petrenko also referred to the history of the Permian boy, who in September 2014 parents have registered under the name Lucifer

According to the author of the bill, the choice of the name of the child’s parents -. It is quite an important issue, which is a “must have legislative authorization.” She believes that the proposed amendments would provide more “effective State protection of constitutional rights and lawful interests of minors addressed.”