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"A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.

Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.

Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was involved in a custody battle, he said.

The new name was not made public to protect the girl's privacy.

"The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name," he wrote. "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily."

The girl had been so embarrassed at the name that she had never told her closest friends what it was. She told people to call her "K" instead, the girl's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the court.

In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the unfortunate names.

Registration officials blocked some names, including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed, including Number 16 Bus Shelter "and tragically, Violence," he said.

New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offense to a reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar general of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Clarke said officials usually talked to parents who proposed unusual names to convince them about the potential for embarrassment."

Wow! What do you think?
DeliaTheArtist

25 responses // No funny names in New Zealand!

  • My first born male is going to be named Yo Yo Boston.
    i hope they dont ban that.
    Yeah Detroit.
    ShedShed215
  • I'm all for keeping the government out of people's lives, but apparently some people are simply not sane enough to be allowed to name their own children. And I thought parents who spelled their child's name with a "y" instead of and "i" were bad.

    Your kid is not named Ryver, it's River. End of story.
    Allsunday
  • Logan Xavier is my 1st boys name.
    Bigdog_mike
  • I'm gonna name my kid "Pmff". Or perhaps "Fffffff" or "Gir."
    VitaminB2
  • my kid has several nicknames , "don't stop" is one , and "please don't kick my ass " is another . that's my boy .
    malathion
  • Some parents are complete assholes. My parents didn't put much thought into what they were going to stick to me forever - my name isn't really Morgan Brikiin.

    Like, I hate it when parents name their kids "Violet" or "Chastity" or something else completely stupid. The government shouldn't get involved in people's lives but if a kid doesn't like his/her name, he or she should be able to get it changed. If there wasn't a threat of pissing the fuck out of my dad I'd get my name changed at 18.

    I sort of like the idea of spelling my psuedo-last name "Brykein," like my EVE Online character's last name.
    FallenMorgan
  • Funny spellings are one thing, but can you really live your life as "Sex Fruit"? I can't imagine a teacher would call that name in class!
    DeliaTheArtist
  • I actually meet this guy once who's name was legally "Jackass Jones." His parents were obviously jackasses.
    UWAZell
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  • You can probably make friends in like, elementary school if your name is "jackass," because people would have an excuse to use "bad words" when they're around you.
    FallenMorgan
  • well, I guess "Roweena, Lateesha, Habib and Jesus" are O.K.
    schmedly
  • How 'bout people just name their kid "Stupid" instead of all these dumbass names?

    Stupid Smith...rofl.
    FallenMorgan
  • Wow I didnt know people actually went as far as "sex fruit"...Its funny but could you imagine growing up like that!!! Its a good thing someones able to change there name but why not give a child a silly nickname insread of a silly name period?
    Azucena
  • Some places, such as Estonia, have laws about naming your child. For example, naming your kid after a famous celebrity or something ridiculous would be illegal, in order to preserve their culture and traditional names.

    If names like Fish and Chips, or Yeah Detroit are part of New Zealand's history and culture it might be more acceptable.
    Moopak
  • It's mostly dumbshit parents who focus on the cute factor as if the kid's never gonna grow up. Like naming a little dog or something.

    I despise small children but if I ever did knock some female up I'd leave the naming up to her UNLESS she picked out a dumbshit name. "Dumbshit names" are a broad definition for me.
    FallenMorgan
  • My math teacher had a friend whose last name was Ire, and he said if he ever had a son he wanted to name him, "Lightmyf." :/

    One celebrity baby name that has always been awful to me is PilotInspektor, Jason Lee's son.
    How horrible whenever he'll go to Starbucks or Pinkberry, and have to say his name.
    pocoraincloud
  • http://www.morgan.imperialstudios.net/?p=102
    I wrotee a blogee about this.
    FallenMorgan
  • I know a girl who's name is, Abcde.
    Ab-sid-ee
    She's one of 9 children.

    I would love to name my future child "Hi. My name isn't really important, but I should be called something, so the text you are reading/ saying should suffice."

    I'll call her Victoria for short.
    Noved
  • In my country when all the Y2K paranoia some kid were actually named "Y2K" or (uai too kai).

    Another way of name kids very common in my country is to mix the names of parents and grandparents, resulting in some bizarre and horrible combinations.

    This is very popular among families from really poor neighborhoods with little or no education at all.
    mundosanto
  • Charlemagne will be my son's name and we'll call him Charley.
    fauxsherrrr
  • my parents has a friend with the last name, Butts. They named their first son Harry.
    Moopak
  • I'm gonna name my first kid Aaaaa so she can be at the front of the alphabet.
    azalea
  • This further gives credibility to the state believing that it has to wade in to protect us from ourselves. Some individuals just shouldn't be let out of the barn let alone having kids.
    jhydo
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIMgEEASoWQ
    That judge should definately try to reign in what some celebrities name their babies.

    Bad enough that Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa had to grow up with names like that, what about AUDIO SCIENCE, FIFI TRIXIBELL, PILOT INSPEKTOR, REIGN BEAU and GOD'ISS LOVE STONE?

    I'm all for individuality but what about all the therapy these kids are going to need?

    I guess no one remembers what happened to the guy that Jonny Cash used to sing about in that song called "A Boy named Sue"
    Argon18
  • Wow. When you can't even do a simple thing as name your child how can you do the more complex things that have to do with raising a child?

    Tisk, tisk idiot parents---if one can even call them that.

    I suppose Sperm Squirter and Egg Layer will have to do.
    J_Jammer
  • Looking at the full story one of funniest was the ones given to the twins who were called Benson and
    Hedges.

    One name I would never call any offspring of mine would be George W. Bush. Think how he wold be ridiculed whenever his name was voiced!

    Even Dickhead or Nobhead would be more preferable
    themanwithadog

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