What's in a name?
Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced "Albin") was a name intended for a Swedish child born in 1991. The boy's parents had planned to never legally name him at all, as a protest to Sweden's naming law.
When the parents failed to register a name by the boy's fifth birthday, a district court in southern Sweden fined the parents 5,000 kronor (US$682 at the time). Responding to the fine, the parents submitted the 43-character name in May 1996, claiming that it was "a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation."
The court rejected the name and upheld the fine. The parents then tried to change the spelling of the name to A (also pronounced "Albin") instead. Once again, the court rejected the shortened name, this time because of a prohibition against one-letter naming.
We could not find out the final resolution between the parents and the court. Presumably, the now 18-year-old young man goes by Albin.
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