MOSCOW, May 2 (RAPSI) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill prohibiting the use of figures, symbols and obscene words in children’s names into law.

The document has been published on the official website of legal information.

The State Duma passed the initiative proposed by Valentina Petrenko, member of the Federation Council, on April 21. The Federation Council approved it on April 26.

The law bans registration of names containing figures, symbols, numeral adjectives or their combination, ranks, obscene words, which fail to meet the requirements of current legislation on acts of civil status.

Ban on the use of abbreviation in names was excluded from the bill by the second reading.

A child may be given double surname consisting of surnames of his or her parents. However, the surname must include not more than two words, the law reads.

The legislation will make it possible to ensure more efficient protection of children’s constitutional rights and statutory interests to a name, the initiative’s authors believe.

According to the registry authorities’ statistics since 1998, Nikolay-Nikita-Nil, Christamrirados, Dolphin, Yaroslav-Lyutobor, Luka-Shchastye (Luka-Happiness), Summerset Ocean, are among the strangest boys’ names. The most unusual girls’ names registered during this period are April, Polina-Polina, Princess Daniella, Zarya-Zaryanitsa (“Dawn”), Alyosha-Kaprina, Oceana, Sophia-Solnyshko (Sophia-Sunshine).

“The biggest uproar, now over 10 years old, involves parents who named their child BOC rVF 260602, which loosely means “a biological object of the human species from the Voronin-Frolov family, born 26 June 2002.” Little BOC, as he is called, has no documents up to date because the court ruled in favor of a Moscow civil registration office that refused to register the child with this name to protect his interests,” Petrenko said earlier.