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Judge: Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do

Thu Jul 24, 5:41 AM ET

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."

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.

I guess he never heard of the actress Tallulah Bankhead

yeah but not 'does the hula' as part of the name. that is an infamita to hurt a child with such foolishness just to have the amusement. These creeps are on drugs is what the problem is. Very sad that these things go on. People do this and they dont honor the relatives or the grand-parents or the parents like we were taught by giving the children the neames of the grand-parents over here. On the other side this would not do, my parents would be ashamed. no good.

I know a couple that named their son BLUE.

I guess they were trying to 'one up' the teasing in school just from the name Tulula..... :-/??????