Parents lose custody of daughter, 'Talula does the Hula from Hawaii'

[Tuffty]

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.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/07/parents-lose-cu.html

Bit crazy giving a newborn such blatently ridiculous names. Can't get an idea of what the motivation would be. I don't think it constitutes cihld abuse though. Granted it is probably awful having to live under the name of Number 16 Bus Shelter (wonder where he/she was conceived?) but you could just go to court and get your name legally changed.

Personally I think I'd call my son 'Tuffty : The Sequel'

[Shumatsu Samurai]

Yeah, there's idiot parents - But I'd be more concerned about the fact that they were legally able to give these stupid names to the kids in the first place...

[tru_harmony]

^that's the real question here...

they let the kid suffer 9 years with that name of hers

normally, i would consider a person's name like a siamese twin of that person (since they're both conceived by the parents and they're stuck together for life)... in this case, i'd say the parent mutated the twin...

[Asmodai]

What were they thinking?

[strawb3rrykream]

That's horrible! Why would you force your child to go through life like that!?

[ctz]

I thought Midnight Chardonnay would be a great name.

[doinkies]

That name is so DQN*, it out-DQNs every other bad name.

*DQN: 2ch slang meaning "lacking in common sense" or "extremely foolish", pronounced as "dokyun".

[shadowstar]

Now see, the key here is to name your kids after the X-Men. Now that would be cool 

[bokunosonzai]

Now see, the key here is to name your kids after the X-Men. Now that would be cool 

LOL I know what you mean...."Wolverine go fetch me the paper" sounds way better than "[Insert Common Name] go kill the neighbour."

[Kuja]

My reaction on someone willing to name their child '4real' would be same as the name.

[tru_harmony]

... i have a some of friends who have weird official names... R'bee and 6-2 (those are really their names)... and one's even named April May June (that's her whole first name) ... insane parents...

[x_sleepyhead]

my kid ... i won't ever name them something like this O_O;

i feel really bad for anyone with a really odd name ...

normally, i would consider a person's name like a siamese twin of that person (since they're both conceived by the parents and they're stuck together for life).

i agree (:
then again .. there's always namechanges ... >_>;