Residents of this country are forbidden from using these baby names: ‘It can have a negative impact on a child’s future’

They’ve put nan glitter successful nan gutter.

Japan has officially cracked down connected “kirakira” — meaning “shiny” aliases “glittery” — babe names, pinch a caller rule aimed astatine dimming nan dazzle of outlandish monikers for illustration Pikachu, Prince and, yes, Devil.

Among nan recently discouraged names? Jewel, Lovely, Kitty, Elsa, Prince, Naruto, Pikachu, Naiki (as successful “Nike”), Pū (like Winnie-the-Pooh), Purin (like pudding), Daiya (meaning diamond), and Ōjisama (meaning prince), per nan South China Morning Post.

The crackdown, effective May 26, is portion of a revision to nan Family Register Act, giving section authorities powerfulness to cull immoderate sanction they deem excessively outrageous aliases tricky to pronounce, primitively reported connected by Today.com.

Why? To guarantee names don’t person “a antagonistic effect connected a child’s future.”

Blame it connected 1 devilish dad.

In 1994, Shigeru and Ayako Sato sparked nationalist outrage erstwhile they named their newborn boy Akuma — which translates to “Devil.” 

According to nan South China Morning Post, nan decades-long effort to prohibition kirakira names began pinch that headline-making hellraiser.

The caller rules, successful effect May 26, fto section officials axe immoderate babe sanction they find excessively wacky aliases tongue-twisting — each to spare kids a early afloat of ridicule. Getty Images/iStockphoto

Sato defended nan diabolical determination astatine nan time, telling nan Los Angeles Times, “There will only beryllium 1 Japanese (person) pinch this name. If you perceive it once, you’ll ne'er hide nan sanction … It is nan champion imaginable name.”

Spoiler: It wasn’t. After officials initially approved nan name, nationalist backlash and a tribunal conflict forced nan mates to switch it for something little infernal.

Still, Sato wasn’t done dreaming big. He reportedly wanted to sanction a early boy Teio — meaning “Emperor” — though he conceded he’d springiness a girl “an ordinary, tiny name.”

Now, nan Japanese authorities is making judge nary 1 follows successful his fire-stamped footsteps.

And Japan isn’t nan only federation reigning successful rogue registrations.

As nan New York Post previously reported, New Zealand besides has a database of forbidden names — and it’s royally strict.

Some countries person strict rules erstwhile it comes to allowed babe names. Getty Images

King topped its caller database of banned babe names, followed by Prince, Princess, Queen, Majesty, Duke, Emperor and Crown, arsenic per CNN.

“It’s a sanction fresh for a king — unless you’re a Kiwi,” The Post noted, aft each 11 parents who tried to sanction their babe King were unopen down. 

“We proceed to impulse parents to deliberation cautiously astir names,” John Crawford-Smith, Principal Advisor astatine New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs, told CNN. “Names are a gift.”

Under nan country’s naming law, monikers can’t beryllium “offensive,” unreasonably long, see numbers aliases symbols, aliases lucifer charismatic titles “without capable justification.” 

Even cannabis-inspired names for illustration Sativa and Indica sewage nan axe — arsenic did nan formerly beloved, now banned Fanny.