12 of our favourite banned baby names from around the world

This nine-year-old New Zealander had her name changed by the courts, who criticised her parents for giving her such a 'bizzarre' name.

She told her school friends she was called 'K' as she was so embarrassed by being Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. The judge said "It makes a fool of the child".

Whether Talula could do the hula from Hawaii is unknown.

Malaysian parents will no longer be allowed to name their child Chow Tow, which translates to 'Smelly Head'.

Unlike other countries relaxing their naming laws, Malaysia is tightening up - Smelly Head was on a 2006 government-issued list of 'unsuitable' names.

It's important in Chinese culture to give your child a unique name, but in the most populous country in the world it's getting more difficult, especially since the Chinese government only allows names which can be read by computer systems- and out of 70,000 Chinese characters, computers can only read around 13,000.

As silly as it seems that a couple named their baby @, the symbol actually looks a bit like the Chinese one for 'love him'.

A lovely sentiment, but the authorities rained on @'s parents' parade by banning the name and publicising it as an example of people trying to bring their bizarre monikers into Chinese.

Eccentric mother-of-13 Kristi Larsen spent two days in prison in 1998 for refusing to pay a fine for giving her son an 'unapproved' name.

She was ordered in a dream to name her child Gesher, Hebrew for 'bridge'. Norwegian authorities weren't impressed.

The country has some pretty stringent naming laws, banning anything featuring swearing, sex or illnesses. And, apparently, structures.

Baby Akuma, which means 'Devil', became the centre of a long court battle in 1993. Japanese authorities felt calling a child 'Devil' was an abuse of a parent's naming rights, and eventually the name was changed.

Germany loves to ban names. They have a whole department called the Standesamt that's dedicated to deciding if names really are appropriate.

Woodstock is just one of many names they rejected- Hucckleberry was also refused on the grounds that the Mark Twain character was considered to be an outsider.

They had no problem with Nemo, Jazz or Speedy, though.

The Danes have a government-issued list of about 7000 names to choose from. Anyone who wants to deviate needs special permission - different spellings and ethnic names are forbidden, and so are compound surnames.

So Anus was never going to be accepted really, was it?

The name Nutella is banned in France after, in 2015, the French courts banned some parents from naming their child after the chocolate spread brand. So, they went with Ella instead.

The name Tom is not allowed in Portugal, but the name Tomas is. This is down to the country banning shortened versions of names.

An Italian man wanted to call his baby Venerdi, which is Friday in Italian, and he was told no. Officials believed the name fitted into the category of ridiculous or shameful.

The Swiss have banned the name Gucci and every other existing brand. So, say goodbye to Mercedes, Chanel and Jimmy Choo, too.