In the past year New Zealand authorities have intervened in the naming of 102 children, thwarting their parents’ attempts to give them dodgy monikers such as Prince, King, Baron, Bishop, Messiah… and Lucifer, Mafia No Fear, SexFruit, Yeah Detroit and Anal.

According to rules set out by the Department of Internal Affairs, the national birth registry, babies’ names must not be offensive or religious, contain numbers, official titles or symbols, and they should be less than 100 characters, and as such they rejected Knight, General, 89 and the symbol *, along with a range of other perplexing monikers. But the inventive parents of 84 Kiwi tots got around the ‘religious’ bit by pulling the ol’ switcheroo, calling their children Nevaeh which is “heaven” spelled backwards; meanwhile, back in 2008, the names Violence, Chardonnay and Number 16 Bus Shelter inexplicably slipped through…

On the flip side, the most common names for NZ babies last year were Ruby and Liam, while in Australia Mason and Emma topped the list, according to Mumzone.