A New Zealand couple is looking to call their newborn son Superman -- but only because their chosen name of 4Real has been rejected by the government registry.

Pat and Sheena Wheaton say they will get around the decision by the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages by officially naming their son Superman but referring to him as 4Real, the New Zealand Herald newspaper has reported.

The Wheatons decided on the name after seeing the baby for the first time in an ultrasound scan and realizing their baby was "for real."

They decided 4Real was the best way to write it, but the name was rejected because the registrar said a name had to be a sequence of characters.

Pat Wheaton said he was considering appealing the decision through the courts, but whatever happens he won't be budged on his choice.

"No matter what, it's going to stay 4Real," Wheaton told the Herald, "I'm certainly not a quitter."

A spokesman for the Department of Internal Affairs, which operates the registry, told the Herald discussions with the Wheatons about their son's name were continuing.

The baby is now 2 months old. The Wheatons first applied to register his name in June.

To offer further insight into this story, here’s a commentary from the Zany Zany World’s Lubomir Loebnovsky.

In a post modern world such as ours who's to say what's right or wrong. This child has been relegated to a set of values that will fail his social development long before his birth. This is new age alternative child abuse.

If parents want to validate their lives by creating life and then devalue another life with a trivializing moniker than we should all clap along tothe indisputable stupidity breeding in the motels and automobile trailers all over the world.

I would have probably named him “Yo Man!”