For the natives, a person's name is the maximum expression of his spirit, they call it "sound of the soul", the first song that accompanies the individual throughout life. That is why the names they use for their descendants refer to water, wind, hope, moon, energy, life, etc.
In Spain, to register a newborn, according to article 54 of the Law of June 8, 1957 of the Civil Registry, it is established that you cannot put more than one name for the baby (compound or more than two simple), diminutive or familiar and colloquial variants that have not reached substantivity, bad names that can express a concept contrary to the dignity of the person, or names that mislead as to sex.
But we read a story in the Argentine digital newspaper Clarín, that more and more parents want to give their children an indigenous name, and getting the Civil Registry to accept the new names is not easy, despite the Foundation Program on Indigenous Names, under the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INAI) already has a list of 2,300 names with their meanings.
Last year the request for these names rose by 20%, many parents choose them because they like their meaning, others because they visited indigenous peoples and were sensitized, or because they have an affinity to their culture. INAI has prepared a list of the ten most requested names:
Tayel (male and baby): "sacred song" in Mapuche.
Suyay (as a baby): means "hope" in Quechua.
Eluney (as a baby): Mapuche is "gift from heaven".
Duham (as a baby): means "memory" in Mapuche.
Sami (as a baby): Quechua origin "lucky, breezy".
Newén (male): "energy, strength", in Mapuche.
Kalén (male): "be another, different" in shelk 'nam.
Uma (as a baby): means "water" in Aymara language.
Ñawi (as a baby): "the one that precedes", in Quechua.
Wayra (male): of Aymara origin, means "wind, air".
But in Argentina, there is a law in which each province also has its criteria, so to give an indigenous name to your baby, you must request a certificate from the Argentine Academy of Letters that shows that the name exists in the Castilian language and that no misleads about his sexuality. But it happens that the aforementioned Academy sometimes, when it does not have data, it uses parents and when they reach the civil registry it is repealed.
This incidence causes many children to be enrolled and the birth allowances are not collected, which leads many parents to change the name they wanted for their child.
The proper name of a person is, as the indigenous people call, the first song that accompanies the individual throughout life, it is not always a whim, sometimes it is a cultural identity, but even being a whim, our son is our creation, Can't we choose the name we want as long as it doesn't harm your dignity?
What do you think? Have you had trouble enrolling your child?
