This Mom Gave Her Baby The ‘Most Outrageous Name As An Experiment & Now Shes Stuck With It

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This Mom Gave Her Baby The ‘Most Outrageous Name As An Experiment & Now Shes Stuck With It

Having grown up in a world full of Brittanys and Jessicas, I can totally understand wanting to give your child a less popular name. But now even names like Blaze and Bellamy are becoming mainstream, so parents really need to think outside the box. (Elon Musk and Grimes' baby names: "offensive" has crossed the name. !

Journalist Kirsten Drysdale works for the ABC's What the FAQ in Australia. She was pregnant with her third child when someone asked her, "Are there any names you can't legally call your children?" Sure, she could have done a little research or maybe called NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages, but first she wanted to know what would happen if the baby's name was rejected. So when her son was born in July, she named him "Meth Rules," The Guardian reported.

In a video posted to YouTube, Drysdale holds her baby and writes "Meth Rules Drysdale" on the birth certificate application. "Okay, well. It was too easy," he says in the video, "and the name probably won't work, so now we're waiting."

The video then skips five weeks and shows Drysdale presenting his official birth certificate. He said, "It worked. Meth rules, Drysdale is official! Can you introduce yourself?"

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"We thought we'd come up with the wildest name we could, assuming it would be rejected," she said, adding that her husband had something compelling to take on , according to the Guardian . "But it wasn't - unfortunately the methamphetamine rules went unnoticed."

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Drysdale added: "We chose methamphetamine because we thought no one would look at the word and think it was right. But we were wrong." And where can you go wrong? No one could have predicted that a name like Met Rules would be approved and printed on an official birth certificate!

A spokesman for Births, Deaths and Marriages confirmed that all the names had been verified by a real person and said it was an "unusual name" which had "unfortunately gone unnoticed". They added that they have strengthened the name verification process and will work with the family to change the name. However, it will remain on the register.

"The name recorded at birth remains permanently in the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages," a spokesperson told the Guardian . "Even though the name has officially changed."

Besides Meth, there are other names Australia won't let you choose for your baby. This includes things that are offensive, not in the public interest, more than 50 letters, symbols or official titles or titles such as princess, queen or goddess.

The United States has slightly different naming laws: If we didn't, Nick Cannon wouldn't be able to name his daughter Mighty Queen. According to Dictionary.com, different states have different laws regarding baby names, although most banned names are considered "offensive." In California and many other states, names may not include accents or diacritics (for example, Khloe Kardashian).

Other states such as Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, North Carolina and Oregon allow accents and some foreign characters on birth certificates, according to USBirthCertificates.com. In New York, your first and middle names cannot exceed 30 or 40 characters. In Massachusetts, the total length of your first, last and last name cannot exceed 40 characters!