New Zealand bans 'Lucifer' babies from the country
source: http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/07/new-zealand-bans-lucifer-babies-from.html
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The devilish name has been effectively banned by the New Zealand names registrar after three sets of parents had the name denied, says The West Australian.
The Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages seems to be trying to curb a lifetime of inevitable taunting for the children of parents who wanted to rather than give them names, give them punctuation symbols like:
. (Full Stop), * (Asterisk) and / (presumably "Slash")
In the past two years there have been 102 rejected names, including Baron, Bishop, Duke, General, Judge, Justice, King, Knight and Mr, all deemed too similar to titles. Messiah also got the thumbs down. The number 89, and the letters, C, D, I and T saw the same fate, reports the Herald Sun.
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Vierotchka
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Church of San Lucifero (circa 1660), dedicated to Saint Lucifer. Cagliari, Sardinia
Lucifer means "bringer of light" and was a popular Christian name until the 4th century when Bishop Lucifer of Cagliari (Sardinia) angered the Church Fathers in Milan with his vociferous stance against the Arian Heresy which denied the full divinity of Christ. Saint Jerome introduced his name, Lucifer, in his translation of the Bible, associating it with the Devil even though Lucifer was one of the popular names attributed to Christ in Italy until then, so as to demonize Bishop Lucifer. Bishop Lucifer now is a recognized Catholic saint. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_of_Cagliari
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New Zealand has been crusading against embarrassing names for some time now. Remember Talula Does the Hula in Hawaii?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/24/familyandrelationships.newzea...
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