The Name Is Batman, Son of Suparman
Last name: Suparman
First name: Batman
Yeah, this is no joke, unfortunate for this 17 year old Singaporean boy who was given the name of two most famous superheroes: Batman and Superman. Though a cool name but I doubt he’ll get taken seriously in his future job.
Apparently in Singapore all names are translated or converted to English when their Birth Certificate is issued since English is the most widely use language over there.
The Muslims in southeast Asia follow the general Muslim convention of patronymic naming, so Batman is his given name and Bin Suparman would generally mean that his father’s name is Suparman. Thus, his name actually means Batman, son of Suparman.
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12:41 pm on April 7th, 2008
This is epic. Submitting to digg.
11:37 am on April 14th, 2008
Where’s Robin?
1:29 am on April 16th, 2008
I didn’t know batman is suparman’s son, gee i guess marvel and DC comics should react on this. Is wonder woman the mother?
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