These are all the baby names that got rejected in New Zealand in 2022

If you're new to being a parent you'd probably assume that you have free reign when it comes to naming your kids - but that's not always the case.

Since 1995, legislation has provided a set of rules for New Zealanders where a name, or combination of names, should not cause offence, be unreasonably long, or resemble an official title or rank.

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And since 2022 has come to an end, the Department of Internal affairs has just released the list of baby names it declined last year - with a total of 13 new names getting the boot. Among these names are Biship, King-Kelly, Rhoyal, Saynt, and Hosea-King.

King took the crown once again as the most rejected name for the 14th year in a row.

Jeff Montgomery, registrar-general of births, death, and marriages says 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.

The full list of reject names in 2022:

King

Saint

Royal

Messiah

Princess

Prince

Sovereign

Sire

Biship

Chiefy- Renata

Duke

Empres

Empress-Jade

General

Hosea-King

Justice

Justyce

KingJayceon

King-Kelly

Majesteigh

Major

Mayjor

Meziah

Padre

Queen

Rhoyal

Rogue

Royale

Royalty

Saynt

Soulijah

Truleigh-Saint

- The Hits, additional reporting by the NZ Herald