The family are still hoping to go on their dream holiday later this year.

A woman was left “devastated” after her daughter’s passport application was rejected because she was named after a Game of Thrones character.

Lucy, 39, from Swindon in Wiltshire, said the Passport Office initially refused the application for Khaleesi, six.

Officials said they were unable to issue a passport unless Warner Brothers gave permission because it owned the name’s trademark. But the authority has since apologised for the error.

  • mannycalavera
    131·
    4 months ago

    No first name and no name are two different concepts.

    Morally, sure, there’s nothing wrong with having no name. Socially and practically there absolutely is.

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
        11·
        4 months ago

        One of my friends from church growing up was from Nigeria, and apparently there’s a culture within Nigeria that doesn’t believe in naming their kids until they come of age. He had no first or middle name, just his family name. He went by Cory, which is apparently what his parents planned on naming him once he was (iirc) 13, but it wasn’t “officially” his name. But apparently it caused all sorts of problems for them when they immigrated, and the US makes it much more complicated than they expected, because they were used to more informal/traditional/less legalistic systems around it.

        Caveat, I was like 9, so I may be misremembering some detail. I’m also only, like, 80% it was Nigeria. I know it was Africa, but I’m not entirely positive it was Nigeria, but I think it was.