Sorry, You Can’t Name Your Baby ‘Voldemort’

Chloe Wells
2 min readFeb 7, 2024
A colour photo of a pouting brown-eyed baby with a white towel partly over its head.
Photo by Nihal Karkala on Unsplash

Finland’s weirdest baby names, part II (part I here).

Firstly, hello, it’s been a while!

Finland’s YLE News reported today (Feb 7) on the list of names refused by the country’s Names Board in 2023.

In the small Nordic nation, parents wishing to give their baby an unusual name must gain approval from the…

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Chloe Wells

True crime and strange tales mostly. Top writer for the tag ‘Finland’.