Parents Can’t Name Their Child ‘Nutella,’ French Court Says

[jakeXT]

A judge noted that Nutella "is the trade name of a spread"

A recently-born baby named Nutella was renamed by a court in the French city of Valenciennes after a judge ruled that the parents’ decision to the name the child after a food was against the child’s interest, according to a new report in the newspaper La Voix Du Nord.

“The name ‘Nutella’ given to the child is the trade name of a spread,” the court’s decision read, according to a translation. “And it is contrary to the child’s interest to be wearing a name like that can only lead to teasing or disparaging thoughts.”

The judge renamed the child Ella after the parents failed to show up at a court appointed day in November. The baby was born in September.

http://time.com/3681714/nutellla-child/

[marym625]

1. Wow!

Now parents can't name their own kids something nuts? That happens here and we're going to have a ton of George, Dick and Ronnie running around.

[uppityperson]

2. The French can be sticklers about names and words.

[OnyxCollie]

3. French sticklers.

[MADem]

4. There are plainly limits to speech in France....

Iceland has the same sort of thing--they restrict the names that people are "allowed" to give to their children.

The JUDGE renamed the kid? REALLY? ELLA??? Ella means "she" in Spanish...I guess he figured sometimes you feel like a nut(ella), and sometimes ya don't ...?

I've heard some stupid-ass names in America, too--but I suppose that's what filling out a change of name form at the courthouse is all about!