Some names are so weird they constitute child abuse, according to a court in New Zealand.
The family court judge reached that conclusion after hearing evidence in the case of a girl named "Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii."
"A lawyer for Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii had reported the 9-year-old was so embarrassed about her name that she had not revealed it to her friends and was other wise known as 'K,'" New Zealand Herald reports. "The lawyer said the girl feared being mocked and teased, and had a better insight about the situation than her parents, who appeared not to have given any thought to implications of giving their child such a name."
Judge Rob Murfitt placed TDTHFH "under the guardianship of the court" pending the selection of a new name. "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap," he writes, according to the Taranaki Daily News.
In his ruling, which was written in February and released this week, Murfitt shared some of the other unusual names that Kiwis have selected for their children, including one who was named O.crnia, which was how her mother spelled "Oceania" in text messages.
He says children have been named Violence, Midnight Chardonnay and Number 16 Bus Shelter. Twins were named Benson and Hedges.
"It's not about unusual names, it's about objectionable names. Something being unusual or funny or what some people might consider silly might not be offensive to an unusual person," Tony Wallace, a spokesman for the Internal Affairs Department, tells the Daily News. "There's no reason not to accept Cinderella Beauty Blossom or Kaos." (Here's more from Wallace.)
The government tells various news organizations that parents were blocked from giving these names to their children: Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Stallion, Twisty Poi, Keenan Got Lucky, Sex Fruit, Fat Boy, Satan, Adolf Hitler and 4Real.
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