Naming your kid Donald now a days is like naming your kid Adolf in the 1940s.
I’ve heard a fun fact about this! Nowadays, at least in North America, they make great effort to always use the full names of people that become infamous to reduce the poisoning of names like that, as well as to minimize the incidence of living people with the same name.
President of Africa.
Of course he’s a cop
Nominative determinism
Just make their middle name Duck and you are golden.
Hillary. No one names their daughter Hillary and haven’t for a while now.
Grover, Kermit. These were also common names. There was president Grover Cleveland. Teddy Roosevelt named one of his sons Kermit. Sesame Street had such a strong cultural impact that these names also fell out of use.
Kermit Roosevelt. I’m sure with a name like that, he definitely didn’t do anything of consequence that ripples through geopolitics to this day.
Elmo too certainly
Nobody names kids “Adolf” here, even today. That name is thoroughly burned.
A mechanic in Denmark has Adolf has his middle name. He’s about 50. I only went there once…
A mechanic in Denmark has Adolf has his middle name.
He’s about 50.
Is Isis still off-limits?
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Probably, this standard has been forced to rename itself.
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Nobody shied away from Joseph after Stalin.
There is a very famous Joseph in a old fairy tale book which most people associate with that name.
But Donald or Adolph?
I mean at least Donald has a Duck, Knuth and Glover.
But Adolf, yeah you named your kid after him…
Its literally just a name and was a very popular name before Hitler. I don’t see why you would have to be named after him. Are all Josephs, peter, Paul’s,Mathews marks named after the bible. No they are just names.
If you allow Don as a shortened version of Donald there are a bunch. Don Juan, Don Quixote, etc.
Don in Spanish literature is not short for Donald…
Don here is a title, not a given name, but your point stands.
Or naming your kid Jeffrey. I think that name is done.
All hail the age of Doug!
I think the name Donald has been out of style since before Trump was born.
Imagine spending your whole life being compared to Donald Duck.
The most recent famous Donald I can think of is Glover, who was born in '83.
Yeah I was just thinking that, all the others I could think of were at least 60.
Well, there’s Donald Knuth
Karen is similarly poisonous
That one at least is a shortened form of Katherine, which people won’t associate with Karen.
…it is?
However, DioramaOfShit is a great name!
Contrary to what other peole say, donald is still super common as a name. It’s culturally significant to many nationalities and scottish people don’t really let the fact that the 47th POTUS is a tosser interfere with what they name their kids. I think various commonwealth countries (e.g in the caribbean) like it as a first name, and loads of american people born since '45 have had it - actors, musicians, artists.
I think people should be allowed to use the name adolf without it conjuring association with 🚨🗿.
Edit: btw, Donald Trump is an interesting name because it etymologically means “World Ruler Trump” and Trump, in card games and such, means “victor,” so 47’s name is “Victorious World Ruler.”
No wonder he has issues.
I think people should be allowed to use the name adolf without it conjuring association with 🚨🗿.
First can of worms of the day, thanks.
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