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		code_duck on April 25, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to permanently delete Facebook account I tried signing up for Facebook with the name 'Jimmy the Greek' and it was denied. However, they then accepted 'Jimmy teh Greeko'.

pak on April 25, 2010 [–]

My guess would be that they have a blacklist of well-known celebrity and fictional character names that gets your request flagged for further review. Misspellings might avoid triggering the blacklist.

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