The country’s naming committee, which regulates baby names, refused a request to add “Lusifer” to its official register.

It said the name “is one of the names of the Devil, and could cause embarrassment”, according to local reports.

A similar request to add “Lucifer” to the naming register was rejected in November because of “its Satanic association”.

Iceland is one of a number of countries with strict laws governing what children can be named.