According to a judge, Talula Doesn’t do the Hula in New Zealand. The judge made 9-year-old Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii a ward of the court so that her name could be legally changed to something more traditional. What that name is, the article didn’t state.

The judge says that names such as Talula’s “makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap”, which I agree with, but I don’t understand why the girl doesn’t just go by Talula. No one has to know what her full name is.

I had friends in high school that had no idea my name was Corrin, because they had called me Corrie for as long as they had known me. I didn’t find out my friend Jason’s name was Cass until they called his name at commencement!

While I’m not into giving my kids names that won’t fit neatly inside the ISTEP boxes, I like quirky names as long as they are spelled logically (no Ashleigh, Micaiah, Nevaeh, or Erikah), so I can’t wait to slip a doozie in as a middle name!