A baby girl named Zealand-New was born in New Zealand on January 11th.
Her name name was created by her grandmother Sharron, who said in an interview that she “was fiddling around and it was something different to say it back to front.”
Zealand-New’s three middle names are Sharron, Phyllis, and Atareta.
Her siblings are named Rlexuz Toara Chantz, Mikaere Morgan and Korizma-Lake Vonnita Manaaki.
(Regarding the Maori names…Manaaki means “caring,” Makaere is a version of Michael, and Toara might be based on the biblical place-name Zoar. I can’t track down the definition of Atareta, though.)
Source: Stuff.co.nz
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What can I say? The Kiwis have done it again. Not withstanding the slightly kitschy feel of the whole backward thing; I actually quite like the sound of Zealand-New. Personally I would have dropped the ‘New’ for a range of reasons. It’s going to sound like the punch line to a bad joke when her school friends ask her middle name (a punch line they will invariably preempt). Still, I do like ‘Zealand’. It’s kind of starting to grow on me :~)