--- title: Nutella France: Court Orders Child Named After Spread Renamed description: A baby named Nutella was renamed by a court after a ruling that the parents' decision to the name the child violated the child's interest. canonical: https://time.com/3681714/nutellla-child/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-25T20:12:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:14.166Z og:title: Parents Can't Name Their Child 'Nutella,' French Court Says og:description: A judge noted that Nutella "is the trade name of a spread" og:url: https://time.com/3681714/nutellla-child/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Parents Can't Name Their Child 'Nutella,' French Court Says twitter:description: A judge noted that Nutella "is the trade name of a spread" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Parents Can't Name Their Child 'Nutella,' French Court Says > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jan 25, 2015 8:12 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jan 25, 2015 8:12 PM UTC A recently-born baby named Nutella was renamed by a court in the French city of Valenciennes after a judge ruled that the parents’ decision to the name the child after a food was against the child’s interest, according to a new [report](http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/nutella-fraise-le-tribunal-de-valenciennes-ia27b36956n2620052) in the newspaper _La Voix Du Nord_. “The name ‘Nutella’ given to the child is the trade name of a spread,” the court’s decision read, according to a translation. “And it is contrary to the child’s interest to be wearing a name like that can only lead to teasing or disparaging thoughts.” The judge renamed the child Ella after the parents failed to show up at a court appointed day in November. The baby was born in September. \[[_La Voix Du Nord_](http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/nutella-fraise-le-tribunal-de-valenciennes-ia27b36956n2620052)\] _Read next:_ [_The Definitive Ranking of Nutella Alternatives_](http://time.com/3686/definitive-ranking-of-nutella-alternatives/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3681714/nutellla-child/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3681714/nutellla-child/"},"headline":"Parents Can't Name Their Child 'Nutella,' French Court Says","datePublished":"2015-01-25T20:12:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:14.166Z","description":"A judge noted that Nutella \"is the trade name of a spread\"","url":"https://time.com/3681714/nutellla-child/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Parenting","France","Parents","Bizarre","Nutella","baby names"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3681714/nutellla-child/","name":"Parents Can't Name Their Child 'Nutella,' French Court Says"}}]}] ```