NZ bans bizarre baby names
If you wish to name your new bundle of joy Lucifer or Messiah, you can't be living in New Zealand.
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Giving such names to new-borns has effectively banned by the country's names registrar after it knocked back the odd request from three parents, reports The Herald Sun.
The country has also ruled out names that use punctuation marks, such as full stops, asterisks, and virgules.
"It has been cracking down on parents getting too creative with their children's names," says the daily.
The list of 102 names rejected in the past two years includes Baron, Bishop, Duke, General, Judge, Justice, King, Knight and Mr, all deemed too similar to titles, the paper revealed.
Messiah was also turned down, as was 89, and the letters, C, D, I and T.
The new ruling comes after it was revealed that parents have named their twins "Benson and Hedges" - after the famous cigarette brand, and other names such as Violence and Number 16 Bus Shelter.
One little girl was so traumatised by her name, Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, that she had it legally changed at age nine, said the paper.
Source: AAP/emirates247.com
Published July 20 2011
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