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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation Brendan.

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Speaker 2: Amanda doesn't Brendan mean hook nose and actually that's my

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Speaker 2: brother's name. Cameron means hook.

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Speaker 3: Nose, smells like wet hair.

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Speaker 2: It's what's Brendan means? Amanda means worthy to be loved.

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Speaker 2: I wonder who got the better one out of that deal?

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Speaker 1: On ACA last night. The story of a controversial name. Now,

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Speaker 1: this mother has the kind of name you'd never forget.

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Speaker 1: In some countries, it's as common as Mary or James.

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Speaker 1: In others, it's considered incredibly offensive, so much so she's

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Speaker 1: been banned from using Uber.

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Speaker 3: What's sinner name? Well, if you are this woman a

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Speaker 3: lot in Sanskrit, her first name means good luck and

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Speaker 3: well being, and of course to her it's all part

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Speaker 3: of her identity. But to Global Transport giant Uber, her

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Speaker 3: name is so offensive it's seen her booted off the

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Speaker 3: platform for violating its terms. Her name is Swastika.

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Speaker 4: It is really coommony. My person in Nauravit for a

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Speaker 4: five other gulsa the same name in school, we had

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Speaker 4: maybe two or three are the grocer of the same name.

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Speaker 3: Swastika is a thirty five year old mum of one

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Speaker 3: She grew up with her two sisters in Fiji, a

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Speaker 3: normal childhood in Suva where her name didn't stand out

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Speaker 3: at all, and so in a typical Indian or Fijian

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Speaker 3: classroom would Swastika be as common as Kate or Sarah.

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Speaker 4: Here in Australia, so it was very quite very common name.

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Speaker 3: Swastika met her partner online. Her name didn't deter him

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Speaker 3: from swiping for a match.

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Speaker 1: It's good to know that Pete Evans isn't single anymore. Wow.

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Speaker 4: A throwback