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A bid to limit bizarre names for children announced by Honduran authorities may seem like much ado about nothing. Unless you're named Bujia (Spark Plug).

Or Defecacion Flores (Defecation Flowers). Or Llanta de Milagro (Miracle Tyre).

All of those are legally registered first names which parents in some parts of this Central American nation have given to their children in recent years, and which Honduras' National Electoral Tribunal feels are over the top.

The tribunal, which oversees the country's public birth registry, announced that it will ask the country's legislature to forbid parents from registering their children under "extravagant or offensive" names, and allow children to sue parents who gave them "gross or insulting" names.

"We are concerned by the custom among peasants of giving absurd names to their children," the tribunal wrote in a statement. "Without doubt, such names are a bother to the people who have to carry them through life."

Particularly irksome according to the tribunal are naming practices in the largely indigenous Gracias a Dios - a province of eastern Honduras whose name translates as "Thank God."

"It is common (there) for people to employ names usually used for automobile parts," the tribunal said.

A young man there named Motor Martinez could meet the young girl - not a relative - named Bujia Martinez (Spark Plug Martinez). But if the law is passed, they could not name their child Ignition.

Also banned would be the use of names of well-known personalities. According to electoral rolls, at least one Honduran bears the first name Bill Clinton, and another Ronald Reagan.