A closer look
Iceland has a highly restrictive official naming committee that legally dictates what citizens are allowed to name their children in order to fiercely protect the linguistic purity of the native Icelandic language. If you move there and have a baby, you cannot just bestow a trendy, made-up pop culture name upon them; you have to pick from an approved registry or submit your new name to a literal government board for linguistic interrogation. It is a level of bureaucratic pedantry that is almost admirable, ensuring that the country's population remains entirely free from unfortunate children named after luxury car brands, misspelled fruits, or random punctuation marks!
