A couple is suing Georgia to name their daughter Allah

[TexasTowelie]

The baby's first name posed no issue: ZalyKha. Georgia law could handle that.

Her parents had to stack the next two components of ZalyKha's name on top of each other to fit them on the government's paternity form: "Graceful Lorraina."

But the middle name wasn't the issue, either.

It was the girl's fourth and last given name, Allah, that state officials balked at - which has now led the American Civil Liberties Union to file suit in hopes of getting ZalyKha Graceful Lorraina Allah a birth certificate, at the age of nearly 2.

And that lawsuit, at least one expert on the arcane legalities of birth certificates says, could lead to far-reaching changes in the United States' hodgepodge of state rules that determine who is allowed to call their baby what.

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[Ilsa]

1. I wonder how computer systems are supposed to handle long names,

Four names, how is order established, etc. One reason my husband and I didn't hyphenate our names when we married was because of the confusion and how it would affect our children. If they marry and hyphenate, do they have four last names?

Why does "Graceful" have to be in the legal name vs what her family calls her?

Oh well, it doesn't affect me directly anyway. Should be interesting to watch.

[Throck]

2. Think I'll name my next kid Anonymous.