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Banned Baby Names List Emerges in New Zealand

Naming a child is a difficult decision for expecting parents, but some don’t take it as seriously as others. Take, for instance, the New Zealand parents who lost custody of their daughter after ...
Banned Baby Names List Emerges in New Zealand
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  • Naming a child is a difficult decision for expecting parents, but some don’t take it as seriously as others.

    Take, for instance, the New Zealand parents who lost custody of their daughter after naming her Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii. In light of that incident and others, the country has now expanded its banned names list to include a wide variety of strange names.

    According to an AFP report, the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs has issued a list of 77 banned names. The list reportedly includes the names Anal, 4Real, V8, Queen Victoria, Lucifer, Mafia No Fear, and 2nd.

    The department also bans names such as King, Duke, Princess, and Justice that could convey a title. In particular, the AFP reports that Justice and intentional misspellings such as Justus or Juztice have been rejected numerous times.

    The country also bans names that contain numbers or characters, such as a period. A New Zealand Herald report states that parents attempting to use a backslash between two names have been denied in the past. Parents attempting to name their child using initials have also been turned down by New Zealand officials.

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