Naming your kid Donald now a days is like naming your kid Adolf in the 1940s.
Naming your kid Judas or lucifer has been pretty taboo for the past 2000 years.
giving non-gender-neutral names should be taboo
Is Adolf a safe name yet? How long needs to pass?
Why would you want to?
I wouldn’t, im not German it would be silly, but for other Germans. Edit : Austrians and Belgians abd etceteras.
Also the moustache AND hair have been absolutely banned for many a young gentleman since then
tangent: do you think names only fit a particular nationality?
Sort of? Like calling a native Scandinavian Jerwayne or Tâo isnt going to go down great.
Of course someone is free to do that, you can call them X Æ A-Xii if you want. But still. Not really ideal.
The country of africa?
President of Africa.
Of course he’s a cop
Nominative determinism
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.
In Germany I usually see either both or just the last name.
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.
His great grandson Kermit Roosevelt III is alive today, and writes law novels
I’m sure, like most Kennedies, he Kermitted his fair share of crimes
Elmo too certainly
Nobody names kids “Adolf” here, even today. That name is thoroughly burned.
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.
Being compared to a cult figure is why exactly bad?
Donald Duck is awesome. Not so boring like the Mouse. Litigious little shit.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
Nobody shied away from Joseph after Stalin.
why would they?
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.
Sure. Go ahead. Name your kid Adolf.
No one is going to think you’re a Nazi…
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.
Is Isis still off-limits?
They simply changed their head headchopper’s name to Al Jolani and suddenly presidents can shake hands with him and do business.
So who TF knows?
eyesis
Probably, this standard has been forced to rename itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_and_Scanner_Interface_Specification
Karen is similarly poisonous
That one at least is a shortened form of Katherine, which people won’t associate with Karen.
I have never once seen Katherine shortened to Karen. I’ve only ever seen it shortened to Katie or Kat. Any Karens I’ve seen, it’s always been a standalone name.
…it is?
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.
