Names now accepted in DK

For a while there, it seemed like every baby in Canada was named either Tyler or Tanner. I never liked the other occupational names either, like Carter or Taylor. I'm just waiting for somebody to name their kid Busdriver.

I like Fryd. I'm going to name my next five children Fryd. I also like Joy. And Faith, Hope and Charity (which reminds me of a Benny Hill routine about Fait, Ope and Carity....)

Although it isn't a funny-name story per se, my mother had a Close Encounter of the Weird Kind with bureaucracy.All of her life she was called Katie by friends and family but she assumed that Catherine was her legal name. However, when the time came to apply for pension benefits, she was informed that she didn't exist. It turned out that she had been regisered at birth as Katie, so Katie was eligible for pension benefits, but every other government document listed her as Catherine, who had never been born. In the end, the dilemna was solved by legally changing her name to one or the other (I forget which), to synchronise the red tape.

I'd pronounce it "Frid" (rhymes with "did"). "Fred" rhymes with "dead".I think of Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA, also known as Frida. A friend of mine has a wife named Freda and my father had a cousin named Frieda.I also think of the other ABBA-chick, Agnetha Faltskog. As a name, I like Agnetha better than its English equivalent, Agnes.