There are 13 new names on this year's list. Photo / 123rf
New Zealand’s most rejected baby names of 2022 have been revealed by The Department of Internal Affairs.
Religious, royal and judicial titles have taken the top spots as usual, with King taking the crown for the most rejected name this year, the 14th year in a row. It was followed
closely by Saint and Royal.
A total of 13 new names were included on the declined list this year. Among these names are Biship, King-Kelly, Rhoyal, Saynt and Hosea-King.
Jeff Montgomery, Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, said the guidelines are in place to ensure that names don’t cause offence, are a reasonable length and don’t represent an official title or rank.
Montgomery said some tips to ensure your baby’s name makes the cut, you should avoid official titles, using numeric characters or symbols, like a backslash or a punctuation mark, swear words and limit the name to no more than 70 characters.
