Question: can you have numbers in your legal name

title: Naming in the United States
text: Research suggests that American parents are more likely to use established , historical names for boys and are much more likely to name boys after relatives and ancestors . Boys ' names , on average , are more traditional than girls ' names , and are less likely to be currently fashionable . This trend holds true across racial lines . There is a much quicker turnover within girls ' names than boys ' . Parents of girls are much more likely to demonstrate their creativity in the naming of their daughters than their sons . In Alice Rossi 's 1965 study of naming conventions , she theorizes that the gender differences in naming strategies exist because of the perceived roles of men and women in society . `` Women play the more crucial role in family and kin activities , while men are the symbolic carriers of temporal continuity of the family . ''