Thread:StoryGirl83/@comment-36836718-20180929125847

I don't remember exactly where we started the discussion about gender-neutral names and how the procedures differ among countries. I tried to search good examples since you said you were interested in learning more about it.

There are courts and Standesämter (registry offices) who reject some first names. A list of those is regularly published and the media reports about it.

I compiled some of the best ones that were rejected:

Agfa (company name), Bierstübl (Bavarian version of beer + parlour), Borussia (name of German football club), Crazy Horse, Gastritis, Gucci, Grammophon, Januar, Joghurt, Lenin, Junge (German for boy), Liebknecht (nice/kind + servant/slave), McDonald, Millenium, Kirsche (cherry), Möhre (carrot), Nelkenheini (carnation + fool/idiot), Pfefferminza (peppermint+a), Porsche, Puppe (doll), Schmitz (last name, equivalent to Smith), Rumpelstilzchen (Rumpelstiltskin), Steißbein (coccyx), Satan, Schnucki (chuck, usually used as pet name), Blitz (lightning), Störenfried (troublemaker), Verleihnix (character from Asterix comics), Whisky, Mandy for a baby boy, Theiler (pronounced Tyler), Popo (bottom/behind), Köln (Cologne), Seniorina, Desperado 