Length of name on birth cert -- state by state? Georgia?
Baby due soon in Georgia, and we are considering four names instead of three -- Clary Patricia Grace Dunaway. Does anyone happen to know if Georgia has a limit on number of letters on an official birth certificate? I'm having trouble finding anything on the state gov website. Thanks so much!
I'm not aware of any such limit. (And that name isn't particularly long.) There was a story in the news recently... I wish I could find it... where a parent in New York was 'extending' a child's name. The new name was sentence-length. (And by that, I mean ten or twelve names, not four or five.)
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