MOSCOW, April 21 (RAPSI) - Valentina Petrenko, member of the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, has submitted a bill to the State Duma that would prohibit the use of figures, symbols, abbreviation and obscene words in names, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday.

Current legislation gives full rein to parents in choosing names for their babies. Registry authorities are not entitled to deny registration of a child’s name because of its injuriousness, roughness, disharmony or difficulties in pronouncing.

At the same time, existing law does not include principles obliging parents to give their children only those names which do not violate their rights and interests.

According to the registry authorities’ statistics since 1998, Nikolai-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.

The proposed bill will make it possible to ensure more efficient protection of children’s constitutional rights and statutory interests to a name.