Names banned in New Zealand

[mumzy]

As I walk around my neck of the woods I wish sometimes British registrars would also intervene: Tia Maria , Lotus Élan, April-May, Tequila are some of the corkers I've heard over the years
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/06/new-zealand-justice-baby-names

I am at some of those!

Are there any rules in UK? I suspect there might be (eg against the inclusion of swearing or blasphemy) but don't actually know. For example, I can't quite imagine a real Sodoff Baldrick.

Funny. I know of a Justez, can only assume the local registrar did not adher to rules. Also a Jackdaniels, poor kid. And so, so many spelling mistakes walking around out there...

As a child, when reading the papers and seeing reports of trials, it always fascinated me that the judge was always called Mr Justice This or Mr Justice That. I genuinely believed that it was a Christian name, and that by a marvellous coincidence these people had all decided to go into the legal profession.

Percy that's brilliant and also exactly the kind of thing I did as a kid!!

they're not allowed to contain religious references?
that means no
daniel
david
joseph
mary
martha
naomi
etc.

Percy maybe that's a common childhood thing because I thought exactly the same. I said to my dad "Funny how they're all called Justice isn't it?" He set me straight

I think in this country, the registrar has the right to refuse anything they think is too stupid. Unfortunately there must be a fair few registrars out there who are extraordinarily tolerant.