Naming Rules in Beefalo Bill

Rules for naming children are set at the state level in Beefalo Bill. In some states, parents have to pick their child's name from a long list of pre-approved names (or apply to have a name added to the approved list), while others allow names to be freely picked (subject to some restrictions).

Typical guidelines:
- Names cannot be offensive, insulting, or embarrassing, either to the bearer or to the public (e.g. Coward, Covid, Felony, Chlamydia, Hitler, Satan, Osama bin laden)
- Titles (e.g. God, Doctor, Judge, Admiral, Major, Sister, Saint, President) cannot be used as names. Often this includes titles of royalty as well, even though these are not used in Beefalo Bill (e.g. Sir, King, Princess).
- Names cannot contain numbers.
- Names cannot contain non-Latin letters.
- Punctuation and accents cannot be used for purely aesthetic reasons, but can be used if they're a legitimate part of the name (e.g. Zoë, François, Anna-Maria, and O'Connell are allowed. Lu'cia, Rÿan, and Alli-son are not allowed.)
- Reasonable variant spellings are allowed, but blatant misspellings are not. E.g. Lucie (for Lucy) is allowed but Luceigh is not.