Parents in Sweden want to name their infant son Q. No, they say, not after the James Bond character who creates things like a watch that doubles as a remote detonator or bullet deflector; but just because that is what they have taken to calling the boy since birth.

Lower courts have ruled that the name does not comply with the 1982 Naming Law, a complex bit of legislation under which the names Lego and Google were approved in recent years, but Superman, Elvis and Metallica were not. (Also rejected, “Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116″ – pronounced Albin.)

The law was originally enacted because non-noble families were giving their children noble names, which is simply not O.K. So the legislature put the Swedish tax authority in charge, requiring that all names be registered there, and allowing some to be rejected on the grounds that they could “cause trouble” for children later in life.

(Not only has the authority taken to rejecting wild names and spellings, they also have prohibited couples from giving children the equivalent of two last names — either hyphenated or as a middle and surname. That’s a whole other story, which you can read here.)

Q’s parents appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court last week, right about the time that the U.S. Social Security Administration released its yearly list of the most popular American baby names. Emma was the number one name for girl’s last year, knocking Emily out of the top spot (where she sat for the past three years) and down to number three. The entire girl’s list is: Emma, Isabella, Emily, Madison, Ava, Olivia, Sophia, Abigail, Elizabeth, Chloe. And for boys: Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua, Daniel, Alexander, Anthony, William, Christopher and Matthew.

There is no Q on the list. But that hardly means that American parents haven’t raised eyebrows over the years at what they have chosen to call their children. Notable celebrity examples: Penn Jillette naming his firstborn Moxie CrimeFighter and Nicolas Cage choosing Kal-El Coppola.

No court was involved in either of those, but when Deborah and Heath Campbell of Easton, Penn., tried to order a birthday cake from a local supermarket last year, Child Protective Services were called; the birthday boy was named Adolf Hitler Campbell (and his sisters were JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Himmler Jeannie Campbell).

Finally, there are the parents in New Zealand, who wanted to give their child a name that sums up what one would like to ask some of these parents about their choice of moniker. They fought to put the following on their son’s birth certificate: 4 Real.

Yep, for real.

Edited by Lisa Belkin: Because I managed to misspell Jillette, Kal-El and Nicolas, all in a post about names. Next time I shall not proof-read without my glasses.