Kiwi ******s

A list of banned children’s names including 4Real, Lucifer, Anal and ‘\’ has been issued by New Zealand. A prohibition exists after parents sought to register their offspring with a variety of bizarre names.

Officials working for the country’s births, deaths and marriages department have updated the list of names they have rejected since 2001. Two New Zealanders recently wanted to register their child’s birth with a backslash separating two names, but were told it would contravene strict rules on what monikers are considered acceptable.

Also rejected were Majesty, Queen Victoria, and Knight as they break the rules that prohibit anything that implies a title.
Stand-alone letters that appear to be initials but do not stand for anything including ‘AJ’, ‘MC’, ‘VI’, ‘LB’ and ‘CJ’ were all also turned down by officials.

The list of 77 names reveals one child was set to be called ‘Anal’ before the Department of Internal Affairs vetoed the proposal, while another narrowly avoided being dubbed ‘.’ (full stop). Other names on the list included 4Real and V8, while Lucifer and Mafia No Fear also got the heave-ho

In some cases, parents appeared to have lost any inspiration for coming up with a moniker for their offspring, wanting to call the latest addition to the family simply ’2nd’, ’3rd’ or ’5th’.

‘Justice’ was the most popular on the list, having been rejected 62 times, although ‘Justus’ and ‘Juztice’ also failed to gain official approval. In 2008, New Zealand’s family court ordered a nine-year-old girl, whose parents had called her Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii, should have her name changed.

Judge Rob Murfitt said it was embarrassing and ‘makes a fool of the child’.

He also criticised parents who gave their children bizarre names, citing examples such as ‘Number 16 Bus Shelter’, ‘Midnight Chardonnay’ and twins called ‘Benson’ and ‘Hedges’.

New Zealand is not the only country to ban parents from giving their children bizarre names.

Sweden also has a similar law and has blocked attempts to name children Superman, Metallica and Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116.

 

Twins called "Benson" & "Hedges"

Nae luck ya ***s.

 

Number 16 bus shelter

 

Funny enough my local bus,FACT

 

"Sweden also has a similar law and has blocked attempts to name children Superman, Metallica and Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116."

those wacky Scandinavians eh? It's now becoming a lot clearer to me why New Zealand and Sweden always figure quite highly on the league tables of suicide rates

 

Lucifer is catchy though?

 

Dan,how do you pronounce that?Phonetically will do

 

Bix?