High school students across the country are eagerly receiving their yearbooks right now, and hurriedly skipping to their picture to see how it turned out.

Imagine seeing your last name butchered...by spell-check.

That's what happened to kids at a Pennsylvania high school:

Middletown Area High School's yearbook listed Max Zupanovic as "Max Supernova," Kathy Carbaugh as "Kathy Airbag" and Alessandra Ippolito as "Alexandria Impolite," just to name a few.

"It was kind of funny, but kind of rude at the same time," Ippolito said.

The company that printed the yearbooks fessed up and will provide stickers to paste over the incorrect names.

While the kids are upset right now, I'm guessing they will find this funny as time marches on. I too have been a victim of spell-check; when typing my byline into a newspaper article, spell-check always asked if I wanted to change my last name (Chavez) to "Chafes."

So yes, I have had at least one byline (that I know of) read Erika Chafes. Zexy!

Do you have any funny (or even unfunny) name-butchering stories? Please share!

I was looking around at different news articles this morning while the kids watched the Rose parade, and I found this little gem on CNN.com.

http://www.cnn.com/...

It's about parents who have a change of heart after naming their children. Days, weeks, months, even years later, they wish they had named their kids something different and seek to change the child's name.

Like many moms, I wanted my child's name to be slightly different. I didn't want her to be one of two or three girls in a classroom who share the same name, forcing the teacher to refer to her by her first name and last initial. My dear niece Emma is known as Emma B. in her class, because she is one of several. Small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, but it's one of my quirks.

My husband and I set our sights on the name Maya 10 years ago, long before we were ready to procreate. Much to our chagrin, it became more popular over the years, but not ubiquitous. We've stumbled across one or two Mayas her age but it doesn't seem to be an uber-trendy moniker...at least not yet.

So I get parents who want to give their kids unusual and downright unique names, even the self-indulgent celebrities. I think Apple is acceptable and Suri is sweet. But should governments be allowed to draw the line when it comes to odd names?

That's what's happening in New Zealand, where a couple has been forbidden from naming their son "4Real":

Pat and Sheena Wheaton were told by the government registry in New Zealand they could not register the name because it included a digit.

Mr Wheaton said he came up with the unlikely moniker after seeing the baby for the first time in an ultrasound scan and realising their baby was "for real".

However, the family has refused to let the law or good taste get in the way of their choice, insisting they will continue to refer to their two-month-old son as 4Real.

In the meantime they plan to officially name him Superman.

Then there's the Chinese couple who tried to battle conformity by naming their son "@"-- like the @ sign in everyone's email address:

Li Yuming, of the state language commission, said the couple argued that "the whole world uses '@' to write emails" and that translated it sounded like "love him" in Mandarin.

Mr Li did not say whether the police, who were the arbiters of names because they issued identity cards, rejected baby "@" and others, but last year there were 60 million people who had "unfamiliar characters" in their names.

He added that as of last year, 129 surnames accounted for 87 per cent of all surnames in China. The most common surname, Li, accounted for almost one in 10 of mainland China's population.

What do you think? Should anything go when it comes to names? Or should innocent newborns have some level of protection from eccentric parents who want to name them Hyundai or Bagel or Ca$h?