Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii

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New Zealand judge is tired of bizarre children names

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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."
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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.
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yellowled24

I heard this on the radio the other day...pretty sad for the girl to grow up with a name like that.
Also heard of someone else naming their kid Peanut, and they think its nice coz whenever people hear the name it puts a smile on their face...

Gonna be alot of smiles and teasing in school me thinks :rolleyes:

CityMouse

yellowled24 wrote:

I heard this on the radio the other day...pretty sad for the girl to grow up with a name like that.
Also heard of someone else naming their kid Peanut, and they think its nice coz whenever people hear the name it puts a smile on their face...

Gonna be alot of smiles and teasing in school me thinks :rolleyes:

can't they give the kid a regular name for real and then just CALL him Peanut for a nickname? geez.

Travelar

There was an article on CNN the other day that talked about this girl and another family. The other family named their kids Indiana Elizabeth Jones and Dow somethingorother Jones.

Freaks.

pearljamjen

HAHA Talula does the Hula? :eek:

Makes me think of the name "Princess Consuela Banana Hammock"

lanners

i deal with traumatized people on a daily basis who have had to endure scorn and taunting at their expense because their parents named them something moronic or gave them some ridiculous alternate spelling. i feel for Talula and i pray for the next generation of children growing up with names dreamed up while their parents were baked.

(i'm serious...you wouldn't believe some of the names parents are giving their children! i'm traumatized just having to see them!)