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French court: Nutella is not a girl's name

The court renamed the girl "Ella."

By Ed Adamczyk
Nutella, the inspiration for a French girl's name (CC/ Flickr/ MacGeekGirl)
Nutella, the inspiration for a French girl's name (CC/ Flickr/ MacGeekGirl)

VALENCIENNES , France, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A French court denied a couple from naming their baby daughter Nutella, after the popular hazelnut-chocolate food.

The municipal registrar of Valenciennes, France, referred the case to the local prosecutor, citing a 1993 law allowing courts to deny names "contrary to the child's interests."

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In a separate case, the court also denied a couple who chose the name "Fraise" for their baby, which means "strawberry" in French.

The law allows parents latitude to name children, provided the choice does not harm the child's interests. The court said Nutella's name would "only lead to teasing or disparaging thoughts," the French newspaper La Voix du Nord reported.

Baby Nutella, born in September, was renamed "Ella" by the court after the parents failed to attend the hearing, and the parents of Baby Fraise renamed her Fraisine, a more traditional French name.

In 2013 the mother of three-year-old boy named Jihad was acquitted of supporting terrorism by an Avignon court after he wore a T-shirt to school reading "I am the bomb" on the front and his birth date, Sept. 11, on the back.

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