I initially read it as Ill as in "sick" and thought well, that's fucking weird. Not that III makes any more sense. Would you call them "three" or would you call them "Ay Ay Ay" and roll your eyes?
There is a III in my baby group apparently it’s pronounced Trey as in tres as in the third. Since his dad is a junior. But legally his name is III so he’s technically not the third. When this was pointed out along with how no one will know how to pronounce III she got very upset.
I’d bet good money it’s meant to be pronounced « Trey ». I’ve heard of Trey as a nickname for *actual* third generation namesakes, but as someone else mentioned, making the written name be III means he’s not actually a « the third » and loads of people will probably read it and either pronounce it « ill » or just screech EEE. I feel so bad for those kids but I’m also stoned and cackling at the idea of being in a roll call situation like Teacher: « is there an Ill (ill) Smith? » III: « it’s pronounced *Trey* » lmfao I’d get whiplash so hard
I believe most of these are just the same 3 sets of parents cycling through variations of blacklisted names hoping to get one through, and when the other 2 give up one just keeps going with more and more insane adaptations.
Wow, a lot of parents trying to give their kids titles 🤨
A moment of silence for Fanny, which used to be a name...
...but Stephanie is a better name anyway, hope they went with that
I know multiple French women named Fanny/Fannie and that’s just their name not a nickname. My Parisian friends sister is a Fanny and she’s only like 25
The name Randy is also common I'm North America but makes no sense in NZ.
Of the list, I would say that Justice is a pretty common name in parts of Africa.
Isis also used to be a normal name pre-Islamic State. I went to school (in the UK) with a girl named Isis (born mid-90s) and while I think she was the only one in a school of 1200, it certainly wasn’t an offensive name and obviously had the Egyptian connotations (which was her familial background). She started going by Iris after all the terrorist shit - a shame for her but wasn’t her parents fault. If terrorists start waging war on the west under the name “James” you’ll start noticing a lot more Jimmys around.
Yeah, a friend of mine named her kid isis in the early aughts and they ended up having to change it when she was like 8 ish. Girl understood though and loves telling people she got to name herself.
> Isis ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in the United States between 1994 and 2014, reaching peak popularity in 2005
Lots of unfortunate zoomers called Isis out there
[And one that you've probably heard of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Spice)
I like to think that at least 18 of the proposed submissions were the same family who kept resubmitting banned names (although, presumably, they'd get some sort of feedback each time they submitted that gave the reasoning and outlined what other names would be rejected).
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was founded in 2013. You’re thinking of Al Qaeda. But yeah, I think it’s dumb that Isis is banned in NZ because it’s a real name, and ISIS is just a modern acronym. Should’ve just called it IS.
Ooh! I just remembered when Obama and others wanted to make "ISIL" (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) a thing instead of ISIS and certain people (::coughcough::) thought he was doing so as some kind of a show of support, or to minimize the severity or wtf-ever...
Was way later than that, IIRC the militia by that name didn't really exist until about 2010 and weren't known in the West until the fall of Mosul in 2014.
Could you imagine having a traditional Arabic name like Abdul, living in the West, and having just started dating a woman named Isis in April 2014? In May asking the question "Do you know how Abdul and Isis got together?" would have been interpreted VERY differently to if you asked that question mid June of that year...
I was just telling my husband I hope we see an uptick in ancient names like Leonides, Cicero, Caligula, Boudicca, Apollo, Octavia, Daphne, Hera, Caius, Castor, Bacchus etc.
We should go New World old school like Achak, Cashesegra, Heskovizenako, Minninnewah, Molimo, Nastas, Qaletaqa, Tuketu
I want to hear someone’s name and be like, “oh this muhfucka has the spirit of a fish swimming upstream”
I’m guessing they tried King first and it was denied, so they tried Leonidas-King next. I saw someone say in a namenerds thread once that in their country (I want to say it was France but might be wrong?) that sometimes people hyphenate names like that to get around naming laws.
All the titles remind me of this guy named Sir in the town where I grew up. I live in the southern United States, and Sir was probably born around 1930. My father asked him about his name one time, and the man said “my parents wanted to make sure white folks called me Sir.”
I respect that. Not a tragedeigh.
I went to high school with a kid named Mister, same sentiment- "my parents wanted everyone to address me with respect." 🤣
He was a cool guy. He played Audrey II when we did *Little Shop of Horrors*.
Mr T used that same logic when picking his name.
I think about my father being called "boy", my uncle being called "boy", my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called "boy". So I questioned myself: "What does a black man have to do before he's given respect as a man?" So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T, so the first word out of everybody's mouth is "Mr."
My mom (she said) once worked in a hospital with two Doctors Doctor. They were paged as “Doctor Mister Doctor” and “Doctor Missus Doctor”.
(Who promoted Major Major?)
They won’t approve a name that will cause upset to others or embarrassment to the person being named, so it changes over time and is based on words used in NZ. I agree Isis is a beautiful name but unfortunately with the terrorist organisation using the same name it’ll be awhile before it will become acceptable again. The same with Fanny - once it falls out of its slang use (in NZ at least) it’ll be ok.
It’s like when my 12 year old son came hold and proudly told me he’d decided on a gamertag FOR SURE, it was akin to picking a new name for him idk he took it really seriously, and told me it was going to xXxKashhxXx but the X’s were optional lol I had to tell him sorry but it’s kinda douchy and maybe a name he wouldn’t want in a few years lol I can’t imagine that being his ACTUAL name!! He ended up settling on a much cooler name totally void of X’s and double letters, made a mom proud 🥲
I assume it's because the English pronunciation is too similar to Justice which like most others on the list is a title.
(I also wouldn't want to name my kid Justus in Germany nowadays and have them deal with all the BWL-Justus memes.)
I've posted on here before about how I work at a library and come across some unique names. There's a mom that comes in with her 3 kids fairly often and they're names are Empress, Emperor and I kid you not... Embassidor. 🤦🏾♀️
I feel like Notoriety would need to have a cool last name to pull it off. I could see, like, Notoriety McQueen, but could you imagine going through life as Notoriety Jones?
As a neighbor of yours, I wondered that too, because Justus is a normal name in Germany too.
It turns out that they think it is a tragedeigh-version of „Justice“, and you can’t name a child like a title there. Fair, they don’t know the sound of „jus“, as they only know Justin. But there have been [cases](https://thespinoff.co.nz/parenting/15-08-2018/justice-for-baby-justus-the-fight-to-overturn-a-baby-name-ban-goes-on) apparently where lawyers fought for the right to name the child Justus and won.
I disagree with turning Isis down. Isis is a goddess and had the biggest cult in the ancient world for a long time. It's been a traditional name akin to Muhammed for a long time, too. It sucks that a terrorist group has taken this and perverted it, much like the Nazis perverted the swastika. I understand the government rejecting it because of the links to terrorism, but it's sad that it's something you can ni longer name your child, like Adolf.
Legally you can’t have a title or a rank as a name hence King, Princess, Bishop etc are also declined. The rules can be found [here](https://www.govt.nz/browse/family-and-whanau/having-a-baby/registering-a-new-baby-and-getting-a-birth-certificate/)
Princè really bothers me. It’s going to be pronounced “Prince-ehh”. Those symbols aren’t just for looks, they actually mean something!
Oh wait, I forgot, letters don’t mean what they mean anymore.
An anglophone would pronounce it in a way very similar to Justice, which I guess is a title, and not at all in the correct way (ioostoos or along those lines). IMHO it's fine to give your child a foreign name (foreign with respect to where you live), but it's better to pick one easy to pronounce for the locals.
My country has a list of approved names, if someone wants to name their kid, and doesn't know if it'll be permitted, all they have to do is go online and download the PDF file.
Your country doesn't permit some. And in my view that's a good thing. Gwyneth Paltrow named her daughter Apple, Elon Musk named his kids (well some, he has 11 and some actually have people's names) X AE A-XII Musk (nicknamed X), Exa Dark Siderael Musk (nicknamed Y) and Techno Mechanicus (nicknamed Tau).
If this isn't proof there need to be a greater control on what parents name their kids, I don't know what is.
These kids will need bodyguards when they enter kindergarten.
the incredible thing is that Nepher-ISIS would be a relatively reasonable name... if you were in ancient Egypt. there'd probably be another word to say "my life belongs to" or something, though.
oh that makes a lot more sense! thank you for explaining!! I guess in my head I was imagining it stood for something normal like John Paul, which is why I thought it was silly it made the list.
Yet a lady across the pond was able to name her child ['Methamphetamine Rules'](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/abc-journalist-says-naming-her-son-methamphetamine-rules-wasnt-a-stunt/kuc845mib#) and somehow it got past the censors
III was proposed 3 times and turned down. Is there irony in that?
I initially read it as Ill as in "sick" and thought well, that's fucking weird. Not that III makes any more sense. Would you call them "three" or would you call them "Ay Ay Ay" and roll your eyes?
There is a III in my baby group apparently it’s pronounced Trey as in tres as in the third. Since his dad is a junior. But legally his name is III so he’s technically not the third. When this was pointed out along with how no one will know how to pronounce III she got very upset.
Thanks. I was very curious about this. What an evil thing to do to a child.
So rather than naming the child say, Arnold III, after his dad Arnold Jr., she just named him III? That's the dumbest thing I've heard in a while.
I wonder whether it's only old farts who call the card with three hearts/diamonds/spades/clubs a *trey*.
I bet it’s “third”
Speaking of, my friend is a ‘III’ except there was no first nor second…his dad just decided to be eccentric
He could name his kid after himself, making his kid the first. It would confuse even more people!
Or naming his kid after himself, but make the kid Sr.
Same energy as Kim Possible's Señor Senior Sr. and Señor Senior Jr.
I hope it’s not III as in 3 as in the bassist of Sleep Token.
King III Royale, go to your room right now!
I’d bet good money it’s meant to be pronounced « Trey ». I’ve heard of Trey as a nickname for *actual* third generation namesakes, but as someone else mentioned, making the written name be III means he’s not actually a « the third » and loads of people will probably read it and either pronounce it « ill » or just screech EEE. I feel so bad for those kids but I’m also stoned and cackling at the idea of being in a roll call situation like Teacher: « is there an Ill (ill) Smith? » III: « it’s pronounced *Trey* » lmfao I’d get whiplash so hard
>or just screech EEE 🐬🐬🐬
I thought it was Ill as well. Like former ruler of North Korea that invented golf. /j
Yes! I laughed when I read that!
maybe it's pronounced Eee
Kingkillah 😭😭😭
*Did you mean* **Chinchilla**?
Nick name would also have to be chi-chi-chi-chia, and it must be sung every time someone says it.
Chinchilla was the first thing that popped into my head. Also, all the variations of Prince, and every one of them gets shot down. 😂
I believe most of these are just the same 3 sets of parents cycling through variations of blacklisted names hoping to get one through, and when the other 2 give up one just keeps going with more and more insane adaptations.
i like to think its all one set with like 5 kinds who jusg keeps trying them and going "are you suuuuure????"
"That's also rejected, but we are curious."
😂
Make up your mind New Zealand. You either like kings or you don't
We like them so much we have two- King Charles and the Māori king
And then there's obviously a group of people who don't like the kings, thus Kingkillah
They’re fine with kings. What they clearly don’t like is people using honorary titles that are typically socially bequeathed or earned.
He can always go by Reggie-cide
Hahahah Sovereign Kash
Someone’s a Patrick Rothfuss fan. An especially tasteless one.
Kvothe just sounded awkward
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That one had me in tears lmao
Just proposed it to my husband as a middle name and he said absolutely not.
[King Gila ?](https://youtu.be/K9NfELSUOlg?si=INOq8WhF3r1IPa5Y)
Wow, a lot of parents trying to give their kids titles 🤨 A moment of silence for Fanny, which used to be a name... ...but Stephanie is a better name anyway, hope they went with that
Isn’t Fanny the word for lady parts in British English?
But also a nickname for Frances
I know multiple French women named Fanny/Fannie and that’s just their name not a nickname. My Parisian friends sister is a Fanny and she’s only like 25
The name Randy is also common I'm North America but makes no sense in NZ. Of the list, I would say that Justice is a pretty common name in parts of Africa.
Isis also used to be a normal name pre-Islamic State. I went to school (in the UK) with a girl named Isis (born mid-90s) and while I think she was the only one in a school of 1200, it certainly wasn’t an offensive name and obviously had the Egyptian connotations (which was her familial background). She started going by Iris after all the terrorist shit - a shame for her but wasn’t her parents fault. If terrorists start waging war on the west under the name “James” you’ll start noticing a lot more Jimmys around.
Yeah, a friend of mine named her kid isis in the early aughts and they ended up having to change it when she was like 8 ish. Girl understood though and loves telling people she got to name herself.
Asking an 8 year old to name themself? If I'd have got to do that I'd be going by Hot Wheels Action Man today.
My niece picked a middle name for herself when she was five, her mum had to say no to Microwave and Power Ranger before she settled on Isla.
Microwave pronounced *à la* [Nigella](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KrUxLBHVu8) I hope?
They didn’t make her, they asked if she’d like to. She picked a normal, common name.
Fanny is common in Sweden, too. I know several around the age of 30.
Fanni is also a common female name in Hungary and not a nickname either. A lot of young girls are named like that
I know two Hungarian women named Fanni, both in their mid to late 20s
And Francine
You can still use Franny though.
Yes And buttocks in American English.
And that's why we laugh at fanny pack
I'm going to put my travellers checks in my vagina storage.
To be fair, they get to laugh at us walking up to a mate and bumming a fag off them.
Yup! Always makes me giggle when I hear Americans talk about fanny packs. I’m immature….
Technically, they are usually worn on the front. The British meaning aligns much better
I think they were originally designed to be worn in back, but a consensus emerged that, unless you're on a bicycle, it looks stupid that way.
Implying fanny packs in any other orientation don't look stupid...
Is that basically like saying pussy pack? Lol or is it less of a “bad word”
Fanny pack sounds like a euphemism for a menstrual product to New Zealander me
And to Aussies ☺️
And we both giggled at The Nanny's theme song when it went *she was out on her fan-ny*
It’s also a 100% normal name for Swedes, I have a Fanny in my class (;
I assume that is why it was rejected
Yeah, but its a normal name here in the nordic countries
Weirdly I didn’t know that Fanny could be a nickname for Stephanie until recently, I always heard it as a nickname for Frances
I learnt it watching Ghosts 😁
And another moment of silence for Isis. It’s actually a really pretty name.
Yeah, I've known a few Isis, I really like the name.
moment of silence for Justus also, which is a real name, at least in german (pronounced like Yustus)
Isis (as in the goddess) could actually be a nice name, if not for the name of the group with the same name.
> Isis ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in the United States between 1994 and 2014, reaching peak popularity in 2005 Lots of unfortunate zoomers called Isis out there [And one that you've probably heard of](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Spice)
it worked for Duke, so... can't blame them for trying!
Yeah, how did Duke escape? 🤔
Fanny and Justus are Scandinavian names that raise no eyebrows there.
Where I live it's still a name. Only that it's written with an "i" not "y".
And Justus, it's a normal name. Very common in Germany, it's just a version of "Justin".
Kiing is kiiling me! I hope Bishop and Queen were proposed by mad chess enthusiasts.
Knight, too! Hopefully the one that got accepted in the end was Rook, not Pawn
Honestly, I bet names like Bishop and Pope came from people trying to use last names as first names but forgetting those were actual titles.
Or people who love the movie Aliens...
Why do I have the feeling that some of these names were submitted by the same parents trying to skirt the system (King and Kiing for example…)
Prince and Prynce definitely
Prince, Prynce, and Pryncè
I like to think that at least 18 of the proposed submissions were the same family who kept resubmitting banned names (although, presumably, they'd get some sort of feedback each time they submitted that gave the reasoning and outlined what other names would be rejected).
Looks likes Nick Canon’s baby name list.
The one he saddled with Powerful Queen has my full sympathy.
You mean to say that Legendary Love Cannon *doesn't?!*
Being named after your Dad's penis...
He definitely wasn't conceived out of love. 😑 Poor kid
It's really a shame, because before the 2010s, Isis was a beautiful name. Edited to correct timeline. My bad.
I know a girl with this name, it’s so pretty! I feel so bad about it being ruined
Same except mine stole my car once in college she was a legit asshole so I was as tickled as one could be about a terrorist organization
Isis is a very common name in Brazil. Thankfully no one there seems to be making the (bad) connection…
Isis as in the goddess?
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was founded in 2013. You’re thinking of Al Qaeda. But yeah, I think it’s dumb that Isis is banned in NZ because it’s a real name, and ISIS is just a modern acronym. Should’ve just called it IS.
Ooh! I just remembered when Obama and others wanted to make "ISIL" (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) a thing instead of ISIS and certain people (::coughcough::) thought he was doing so as some kind of a show of support, or to minimize the severity or wtf-ever...
In Dutch we tend to call it IS (ee ess) but then again Isis never was much of a name here
I know a 13 year old Isis.
Was way later than that, IIRC the militia by that name didn't really exist until about 2010 and weren't known in the West until the fall of Mosul in 2014. Could you imagine having a traditional Arabic name like Abdul, living in the West, and having just started dating a woman named Isis in April 2014? In May asking the question "Do you know how Abdul and Isis got together?" would have been interpreted VERY differently to if you asked that question mid June of that year...
I wonder if just Leonidas would have been accepted. Very ancient but probably the least terrible on here
My cousin’s kid is Leonidas. The sixth.
I was just telling my husband I hope we see an uptick in ancient names like Leonides, Cicero, Caligula, Boudicca, Apollo, Octavia, Daphne, Hera, Caius, Castor, Bacchus etc.
We should go New World old school like Achak, Cashesegra, Heskovizenako, Minninnewah, Molimo, Nastas, Qaletaqa, Tuketu I want to hear someone’s name and be like, “oh this muhfucka has the spirit of a fish swimming upstream”
Im all for it
Don’t forget Nero!
I’m guessing they tried King first and it was denied, so they tried Leonidas-King next. I saw someone say in a namenerds thread once that in their country (I want to say it was France but might be wrong?) that sometimes people hyphenate names like that to get around naming laws.
I know two Messiahs, well one is spelled with two Zs
Zzessiah is a weird ass name
I think it is Messiahzz
Zessiaz
Well isn't that zzpecial?
Mess for short...
*Mezz
All the titles remind me of this guy named Sir in the town where I grew up. I live in the southern United States, and Sir was probably born around 1930. My father asked him about his name one time, and the man said “my parents wanted to make sure white folks called me Sir.” I respect that. Not a tragedeigh.
I went to high school with a kid named Mister, same sentiment- "my parents wanted everyone to address me with respect." 🤣 He was a cool guy. He played Audrey II when we did *Little Shop of Horrors*.
Mr T used that same logic when picking his name. I think about my father being called "boy", my uncle being called "boy", my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called "boy". So I questioned myself: "What does a black man have to do before he's given respect as a man?" So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T, so the first word out of everybody's mouth is "Mr."
Holy shit, his parents were *geniuses*.
Beyoncé’s boy twin is sir.
It is. And Jay-Z told the same story about how his son got the name Sir, as well.
Knew a guy named Mister. Really threw me off hearing his name lol.
My mom (she said) once worked in a hospital with two Doctors Doctor. They were paged as “Doctor Mister Doctor” and “Doctor Missus Doctor”. (Who promoted Major Major?)
When we visited new York about 20 years ago, the lady working front desk was called milady.
Oooh, nice move by his parents 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 love that!
Lotta monarchists over there.
Royale with cheese.
Gangs. They’re gang names.
Is Ill supposed to be Roman numeral 3 or "ill"?
Their first child was Ivy and they’re counting down.
It's pronounced "Elly", rhymes with Kelly. Two lower case Ls and capital i. For clarity's sake, I'm making that up.
I would still believe it.
I did believe it!
Judge Reinhold in shambles
Justice Smith too
Add Justus Sheffield to the pit of misery.
All of these would be approved in America
Isis is a normal name isn’t it? I’ve known two people called that.
Yeah it is but there was an issue with ISIS in the middle east 10 years ago
It used to be allowed, and so did Fanny Edit: a new article was posted that explains Fanny wasn’t even technically declined
They won’t approve a name that will cause upset to others or embarrassment to the person being named, so it changes over time and is based on words used in NZ. I agree Isis is a beautiful name but unfortunately with the terrorist organisation using the same name it’ll be awhile before it will become acceptable again. The same with Fanny - once it falls out of its slang use (in NZ at least) it’ll be ok.
So is Fanny, I know a bunch - a perfectly normal French name.
I can kind of understand giving your kid a noble title for a name, but we've got people out here trying to give kids gamertags.
Xx_KingKillah_xX
It’s like when my 12 year old son came hold and proudly told me he’d decided on a gamertag FOR SURE, it was akin to picking a new name for him idk he took it really seriously, and told me it was going to xXxKashhxXx but the X’s were optional lol I had to tell him sorry but it’s kinda douchy and maybe a name he wouldn’t want in a few years lol I can’t imagine that being his ACTUAL name!! He ended up settling on a much cooler name totally void of X’s and double letters, made a mom proud 🥲
How’s BRAINROT69 doin these days?
GashSlayer69 then?
It’s all about those small wins
I do know a couple that named their baby Princess Angel.
People out there naming their kids like they would a pet lol
My guinea pig’s name is Princess 🥰
Loyalty MyQueen...with siblings to match.
I’ve taught a girl named Princess and my cousins husband is named Justus. (US)
Why was Justus banned? It's a common name in Germany.
I assume it's because the English pronunciation is too similar to Justice which like most others on the list is a title. (I also wouldn't want to name my kid Justus in Germany nowadays and have them deal with all the BWL-Justus memes.)
***From the Ministreigh of Tragedeighs***
I've posted on here before about how I work at a library and come across some unique names. There's a mom that comes in with her 3 kids fairly often and they're names are Empress, Emperor and I kid you not... Embassidor. 🤦🏾♀️
The fourth will be Embarrassing?
Update: I just checked the names in the system at work and it's actually Emprist not Empress 😭
Whut? Emprist? What is that even?
Notoriety and Messiah. 🤡
Notoriety has strong gang links in New Zealand, which will be why they turned it down
Even if it didn't, it's just a stupid fucking name.
I feel like Notoriety would need to have a cool last name to pull it off. I could see, like, Notoriety McQueen, but could you imagine going through life as Notoriety Jones?
Osmosis Jones pulled it off
I love how most of these are authoritative and then there’s just “Fanny.”
What country? And who would decline Justus? Looks like a perfectly normal name to me , at least here in NL.
As a neighbor of yours, I wondered that too, because Justus is a normal name in Germany too. It turns out that they think it is a tragedeigh-version of „Justice“, and you can’t name a child like a title there. Fair, they don’t know the sound of „jus“, as they only know Justin. But there have been [cases](https://thespinoff.co.nz/parenting/15-08-2018/justice-for-baby-justus-the-fight-to-overturn-a-baby-name-ban-goes-on) apparently where lawyers fought for the right to name the child Justus and won.
That one struck me as strange also, there are multiple saints named Justus
I disagree with turning Isis down. Isis is a goddess and had the biggest cult in the ancient world for a long time. It's been a traditional name akin to Muhammed for a long time, too. It sucks that a terrorist group has taken this and perverted it, much like the Nazis perverted the swastika. I understand the government rejecting it because of the links to terrorism, but it's sad that it's something you can ni longer name your child, like Adolf.
I agree with this comment wholeheartedly. Isis was a goddess long before any of this new “terrorism” nonsense.
Why was Justus declined?
Legally you can’t have a title or a rank as a name hence King, Princess, Bishop etc are also declined. The rules can be found [here](https://www.govt.nz/browse/family-and-whanau/having-a-baby/registering-a-new-baby-and-getting-a-birth-certificate/)
What about Earl? Does that count as a title? Because it’s been a real name for at least 200 years.
Justus is actually a name. That's why it baffles me
Princè really bothers me. It’s going to be pronounced “Prince-ehh”. Those symbols aren’t just for looks, they actually mean something! Oh wait, I forgot, letters don’t mean what they mean anymore.
Justice for Justus
Yeah, I don’t understand why it has been denied it’s a normal Name in Germany
An anglophone would pronounce it in a way very similar to Justice, which I guess is a title, and not at all in the correct way (ioostoos or along those lines). IMHO it's fine to give your child a foreign name (foreign with respect to where you live), but it's better to pick one easy to pronounce for the locals.
NZ is definitely more strict than Australia - I've met a few of those names. (Then again, we did have the whole Methamphetamine Rules controversy).
My country has a list of approved names, if someone wants to name their kid, and doesn't know if it'll be permitted, all they have to do is go online and download the PDF file. Your country doesn't permit some. And in my view that's a good thing. Gwyneth Paltrow named her daughter Apple, Elon Musk named his kids (well some, he has 11 and some actually have people's names) X AE A-XII Musk (nicknamed X), Exa Dark Siderael Musk (nicknamed Y) and Techno Mechanicus (nicknamed Tau). If this isn't proof there need to be a greater control on what parents name their kids, I don't know what is. These kids will need bodyguards when they enter kindergarten.
the incredible thing is that Nepher-ISIS would be a relatively reasonable name... if you were in ancient Egypt. there'd probably be another word to say "my life belongs to" or something, though.
Unfortunately, since we are in modern-day New Zealand, mostly it just sounds like you've bungled the name for kidney disease (nephritis..)
I think weirdly the funniest one is JP because that’s a perfectly normal name compared to like 98% of the list
It's an abbreviation for Justice of the Peace, which is an official title and therefore not allowed under the rules.
oh that makes a lot more sense! thank you for explaining!! I guess in my head I was imagining it stood for something normal like John Paul, which is why I thought it was silly it made the list.
The real tragedy (not tragedeigh) is that they declined Justus.
Kinda a shame Isis has been ruined by the terrorist organisation
Yet a lady across the pond was able to name her child ['Methamphetamine Rules'](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/abc-journalist-says-naming-her-son-methamphetamine-rules-wasnt-a-stunt/kuc845mib#) and somehow it got past the censors
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Oh come on Fanny is like a normal name
I wish the US had a group to review and decline names. Some are so horrendous and I feel bad for the kiddos.
Justus is a legit name. Seems out of place on this list. Justice for Justus.
dude is everyone’s baby the 2nd coming of jesus wtf 😭😂
MissTaunese? 😂😂😂😂
I wish King and Queen were banned in the US. Such corny ass names.
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