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Nine-Year-Old Wins Fight To Change Weird Name

Posted by Amy S.F. Lutz

I just don't get those parents who give their kids wack-a-doodle names.  I mean, do they not care at all about their kids being mercilessly teased their entire lives?  Or are they just so determined to be different they don't care about the consequences?

A New Zealand family court judge recently expressed concern about some of the bizarre names he's seen recently:  twins named Benson and Hedges, after the cigarette brand; a child named "Number 16 Bus Shelter" (boy?  girl?  who knows?).  But those are pretty tame compared to the nine-year-old girl the judge decided to make a ward of the court yesterday so she could get rid of her super-crazy name:  Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii.

Apparently, Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii is so ashamed of her name that she goes by the letter K.  Now that she's free from her parents' control, maybe she'll change her name to Kay - it's short, simple, and everyone can spell it.

 

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Comments

 

Chiara said:

Benson and Hedges, HAHAHAHAHA!  

Ahem, totally wrong to do that to a kid.  People, when you have to make the same joke every day of your life, it won't be funny anymore!

July 24, 2008 1:48 PM
 

leahsmom said:

Besides, if you like the name because you think it's funny, wouldn't it be more funny as a pet's name anyway? Buy a pet - problem solved!

July 24, 2008 2:30 PM
 

BBBGMOM said:

Leahsmom - BINGO!  Whenever hubby got the weird name fever during my pregnancies, I calmly said, "OK, let's go get a puppy and name him... Xylo, Crispus, Fandango..."  Etc.

July 24, 2008 2:50 PM
 

steffmarcusky said:

We thankfully got Sabiki the cat, instead of naming the child after Japanese fishing lures. Instead, we just named the boy after a musician's last name (Coltrane).

July 24, 2008 3:31 PM
 

coolteamblt said:

Good lord! I thought at first that it was just Talula, and I happen to like that name. Then it clicked as to what the whole name was, and I just about wept.

I have separate 'kid name' and 'animal name' lists. Boudicca, Zodiac, Rufus, etc. are all animal names. The baby will be James or Daphne.

July 24, 2008 7:41 PM
 

Manjari said:

"Number 16 Bus Shelter"

Seriously?

July 24, 2008 9:21 PM
 

Mom2Two said:

Perhaps Number 16 Bus Shelter was conceived in that place?  Why else would you saddle your kid with such an idiot name?

July 25, 2008 2:58 PM

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Amy S.F. Lutz's work has appeared in dozens of literary journals, including Cream City Review, The American Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, and Mid-American Review. She and her husband have five children. Amy and her sister chronicle their adventures in communal living in their blog whoelsewantstoliveinmyhouse.com

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