{"items": [{"author": "Daniel", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/694470568292?comment_id=694472489442", "anchor": "fb-694472489442", "service": "fb", "text": "first names can't have spaces? well, not too often in our home state, but they can.", "timestamp": "1414675125"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/694470568292?comment_id=694474739932", "anchor": "fb-694474739932", "service": "fb", "text": "@Daniel: In the Social Security data none of the names have spaces, which either means the compilers filtered names like that out or they weren't common enough to get five people of one gender in a year in the US.  I think it's the former, with names like \"Mary Katherine Smith\" being listed under \"Mary\" not \"Mary Katherine\".", "timestamp": "1414677546"}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/694470568292?comment_id=694477893612", "anchor": "fb-694477893612", "service": "fb", "text": "Mary Katherine, Mary Elizabeth, etc. are variations on Mary, which historically was so popular that the child would be given a Saint's middle name (it was a particularly Irish Catholic convention in my experience).", "timestamp": "1414679986"}, {"author": "Daniel", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/694470568292?comment_id=694606366152", "anchor": "fb-694606366152", "service": "fb", "text": "Daniel, generally speaking, I think a first name with a space in it would be interpreted by the system as a first name and a middle name. Maybe, in some cases, a second middle name.", "timestamp": "1414766070"}, {"author": "Charvak", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/694470568292?comment_id=717349014702", "anchor": "fb-717349014702", "service": "fb", "text": "In Switzerland, lots of baby names get rejected: https://missmba.wordpress.com/.../swiss-rules-for-naming.../<br>but I find it shocking that they do allow hyphens (e.g. Jean-Francois) and probably spaces too.  I'd prefer rules that baby names must have only one capital letter, at the beginning, be limited to 16 characters, and be pronounceable.", "timestamp": "1428453473"}]}