Judge: You cannot name your baby ‘Nutella’ (France)

nytimes.com ^ | January 26, 2015 | By Yaron Steinbuch

[Morgana]

A French judge spared a baby girl from being named Nutella – changing her name to Ella instead to save her from a lifetime of teasing.

“The name ‘Nutella’ given to the child is the trade name of a spread,” the court ruled, according to a La Voix Du Nord. “And it is contrary to the child’s interest to have a name that can only lead to teasing or disparaging thoughts.”

The parents wanted to name the girl after the popular chocolate spread, but the judge said that the name was not in the interest of the baby girl, who was born in Valenciennes on Sept. 24.

When the couple failed to appear for a November court hearing, the judge ordered the name change.

In France, the registrar checks newborns’ names when birth certificates are registered. If a name is deemed contrary to the child’s interest, the registrar has to notify a prosecutor. A family court can then change the name.

[arthurus]

I love it.

[left that other site]

:-)

[arthurus]

Germany has insisted on its own words for things in preference to foreign words. That is wherefrom all the lo-o-ong words for scientific things and the words that seem to be more appropriate to Pacific islanders trying to make sense out of the things the guys from the big boat have back at first discovery.

Wasserstof (water stuff) = hydrogen.

[Covenantor]

Je suis “Skippy”

[arthurus]

The Mayans and several other groups named their children for the days they were born. Children born on the exact same day had the same name but that name day didn’t recur for a many years due to the day’s name being a coincidence of the days on two or three separate calender cycles .

[ThanhPhero]

In Viet Nam many families name their children numbers by order of birth. Families will have two sets of numbers. The girls Nhì (2nd), Ba (3), Tư (4th), for the boys and the same for the girls. There is no First as tradition says that demons are lurking about to steal the most important infant so there is no Number One.0Vietnamese kids will have several names as they grow up and pass particular points in their lives, but only one official name.
Another tradition that provides a lot of names is the giving of ugly names to children, especially first children, for the same reason that there is no First, especially in the more remote areas. There are people whose names translate to "Crap" which evokes no raised eyebrows in Viet Nam.

[ThanhPhero]

That sorta stumbles off the tongue.

[ThanhPhero]

Pas de boulette du merde en francais.

[ThanhPhero]

Mohammed(Mahomet, Mahmoud, Mehmet) is so common that Muslim males could sensibly be referred to collectively as the Mohammeds.

[Chickensoup]

Mohammed(Mahomet, Mahmoud, Mehmet) is so common that Muslim males could sensibly be referred to collectively as the Mohammeds.

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Yes and leftist kowtows in GB separated all the spellings so they could say that Mohammmed is not the most popular boys name there.

[ThanhPhero]

The different spellings are, of course, all English transliterations, but the vowel sounds are different in different dialects of Arabic. The name written in Arabic is is transliterated as MHMD or MHMT. Very few sounds in Arabic are congruent with sounds in English or other civilized languages so the D and T represent a sound somewhere in that range. The written name does not change but different dialects provide different vowels so long as the consonants stay the same.

[dfwgator]

It all sounds like “Dirka Dirka Dirka Muhammad Jihad” to me.

[__rvx86]

Lungenkrebs: lung cancer. Also ‘lung crabs!’

[latina4dubya]

i could have been named Seven or Seventh or Seven of Seven as i am the seventh born out of seven children...

[NCLaw441]

My daughter attended elementary school with a girl named Monopoly. My daughter declined my request to ask her if she had a sister named Parcheesi.

[Gamecock]

LOL!

[Impy]

Bravo Frog Judge, bravo.

[arthurus]

Actually lungenkrebs is a direct translation of the English-Latin Lung Cancer. We mask it with Latin. German insists on being all German.

[AuH2ORepublican]

I will reiterate my support for a National Registry of Names, which would include an exhaustive list of appropriate first names for U.S. citizens, along with their correct spelling. (If we missed a name that is an *actual, bona fide* name in some country and not some made-up shlitz, we’ll add it to the list, but enough with all of this child abuse through “clever” and/or misspelled first names.)

[GOPsterinMA]

I wanna name my son “Goober Grape”.