6-year-old girl denied passport because she’s named after ‘Game of Thrones’ character

Khaleesi, 6, a passport was denied — with officials telling her she needed Warner Brothers’ approval because it owns the name’s trademark.

Typical capitalist brain rot.

Shouldn't they also use the same bullshit excuse when issuing an ID card? At least make the dumb rules consistent.

The idiocy of naming your kid Khaleesi aside, the UK just decided that a corporation can own your name and prevent you from enjoying the rights of your citizenship.

That's pretty fucked.

Edit - Apparently they did backtrack. But it's still amazing that anyone even thought that was a thing.

The kid doesn't deserve this, but she doesn't deserve that name either.

Why the f is a passport office concerned with a trademark. It is a name of a child.. it does not infringe.

So, they passport office is concerned that WB won't approve? ffs.

The Passport Office reportedly later called Lucy to apologize for the error. While officials said they’d now be able to process little Khaleesi’s passport, Lucy said she believes the problem was only solved because she complained on social media.

Sounds like the passport office didn't understand how trademark works.

“I never thought you could trademark a name,” she added.

I hope my son Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man is not going to get in trouble.

This is their fault for not checking the username db first. Should've tried xXx_khaleesi_xXx instead

the initial application to get her daughter, Khaleesi, 6, a passport was denied — with officials telling her she needed Warner Brothers’ approval because it owns the name’s trademark.

This is a lot dumber than I thought. Yes, Khaleesi is a stupid name but it is their official name on government papers. They're seriously telling her "your daughter can't use her legal name without permission from Warner Brothers"?

As the article states this is bullshit and who knows what the person who denied her passport was thinking.

I've met someone whose legal name was Pepsi and she was able to get regular government documents without contacting PepsiCo.

It's unfortunate this mom had to go to a lawyer for this crap.

I don't understand why the Passport Office would have even looked.

The name Wendy didn't exist until the book Peterpan. Every part of language is made up, even the names.

What's wrong with passport offices? Here in the states I tried to get my passport in my teen years. I filled all the paperwork paid for it and everything when it came time to get the passport they were just like"you don't exist your social security number isn't real" and that's b******* since my mom had been literally filing taxes with that number as a dependent my entire life. The passport office said tough s*** fax me all your ID information maybe we can do something. So I literally hooked up a fax machine in 2014 and sent everything off but still nothing.

Tl;Dr US passport office told me I'm not a person and took my money anyway.

In case anyone else wanted to save a click, daughters name is Khaleesi and it was denied because “Warner brothers trademark”

People in this thread frothing at the mouth because it's a title, not a name, must have forgotten about Caesar. And that it doesn't matter - people call their kids all kinds of weird shit.

The people involved with this bullshit should be sacked. Typical power-tripping idiots.

I'm just glad the parents named her that before the last season of GOT released.

Otherwise it would be even more concerning.

Khaleesi

I fully expected her to be named "Reek".

This doesn't make any sense. UPS has trademarked the colour brown, yet I've known people with the last name Brown who have been able to get passports.

You named your daughter after a tv/book character famous for getting naked, railed, being a bit nuts, and losing a war? I guess she OG owned some dragons for a while. Destined to be bad ass destroy all mega lizards before season 8 destroyed an entire series.

I feel like Game of Thrones could have had Harry Potter levels of cultural staying power if they didn't completely fuck the ending.

is there a court precedent for this? definitely not first child to be named after trademarked word

Weren't a lot of kids name that when that show came out?

1a. Folks, before you name your children, don't make it easy for the big corporations to sue you. Those who "own" (i.e. use the government to suppress your right to free speech) a conlang, be it Dothraki, Klingon, or Tolkien's language care far more about profit than culture.

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2b. wp:Dothraki language

In 2012, 146 newborn girls in the United States were named "Khaleesi", the Dothraki term for the wife of a khal or ruler, and the title adopted in the series by Daenerys Targaryen.[3]

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3c. wt:kalisi

Noun

kalisi (n class, plural kalisi)

Alternative form of kalisiamu

wt:kalisiamu:Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English calcium.

Are they worried that this 6 year old is stealing the identity of a fictional character? 🤨

Probably that same boot licking employee from Taco Bell(?) now working for the passport office.

They called and said it was a mistake meaning some asshole employee went too far.

Worth mentioning that the UK and Ireland is the easiest country to change your name in. All you need is two friends and a printer. Although it may be more complicated for children, especially if the parents aren't together (I still think it's pretty straightforward if they are together, just both parents need to approve it as well)

Bad news for anyone named Jessica.

My job entails handling certain things for the recently deceased. I processed a Khaleesi yesterday and my dumbass assumed it was a name that meant something for some culture or another, but immediately recognized the name for Daenerys as well.

Having looked, it's totally made up, but it's super badass, if I were to ever have kids, which I won't, cause fuck that, I'd be open to that being my daughter's name. It sounds real cool.

Sounds like a really stupid person at the passport place that thinks their smart. Pretty typical.

What a tragedeigh!

Poor kid.

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There should be a list of approved names for children.