* Change name to Aotearoa 8% (-5% from 2022)
* Change name to Aotearoa New Zealand 19% (-5%)
* Change name to something else 2% (+2%)
* Do not change name 66% (+7%)
* Unsure 5% (+2%)
So the current name is 8 times more popular than Aotearoa and 3.5 times more popular than Aotearoa NZ.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
2 comments:
People overseas read Aotearoa and cannot pronounce it. But they can easily say New Zealand.
It seems the publishers of you local rag, "The Post", still haven't yet woken up to the fact that most of the public, and their ever dwindling number of subscribers, aren't impressed with their persistent pushing of the name, "Aotearoa". A name that has no real provenance in terms of our wider country. But as the saying goes - go woke, go broke - just like the dying city they're based in.
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