Illegal baby names youre banned from using around the world

There have been a whole host of ridiculous baby names over the years.

But some monikers were so bizarre they ended up getting banned in their country — with Nutella topping the list.

Apparently, a couple in France wanted to call their daughter after the chocolate spread but were told by a judge they wouldn’t be allowed to.

This wasn’t because of copyright, but because it would have made the tot “the subject of derision.”

The parents decided to call her Ella instead.

Also in France, the word Fraise — which translates as strawberry — could not be used as a name, because it could be misconstrued as the slang word for “ass.”

Following the judge’s ruling, the parents named their daughter Fraisine.

Another French pair tried to name their child Prince William, claiming it would be the tot’s first name, but this was banned because it would have led to a “childhood of mockery.”

Portugal is another country that has very strict rules about what names it will allow, with one regulation stating you can’t give your child a nickname as its official name.

Therefore, if you want to call your child Tom, you would have to name him Tomas.

Non-Portuguese names are also banned in the country, with Thor, Nirvana and Paris all in the pages of an 82-page list of forbidden monikers.

Over in Sweden, a couple tried to name their baby Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 as a protest for a fine they received for failing to register their child’s name by its fifth birthday.

They said they would have pronounced the name “Albin” when they submitted the name back in 1991, but they were banned from using it.

Another Swedish pair requested permission to name their baby IKEA, but were told that they weren’t allowed to call their child after the company.

In Iceland, the letter C is not included in the Icelandic alphabet, so any name that begins with it is not allowed.

That rule meant that Jon Gnarr, the former mayor of Reykjavik, was prevented from calling his daughter Camilla, which he called an “unfair, stupid law against creativity.”

Also in Iceland, a girl called Harriet Cardew — whose father was from the UK — had applied for a passport in the country, only to be told that she couldn’t have one because her name didn’t work in Icelandic.

She was eventually given one, under the name Stulka (Girl) Cardew.

New Zealand also had rigid rules about naming — with Saint, Prince, King and Royal all rejected as potential monikers, as names that resemble official titles are banned.

Another set of parents in New Zealand found themselves struggling to get permission when they wanted to call their child by the Roman numeral III.

“There’s no problem if you want to give your child a spelled-out number or even a silly name, but remember your child has to live with it!” Jeff Montgomery, Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, said at the time.

A grammatical couple in the country also tried to name their child with a single full stop mark, which they would have pronounced “full stop.”

However, New Zealand also has rules about putting punctuation in names.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission.

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