Naming your kid Donald now a days is like naming your kid Adolf in the 1940s.
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.
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.
Of topic but is Sesame street still a thing? With the CPB getting eliminated it is hard to know anymore.
It is. Over a decade ago they cut a deal with HBO where they would get priority on new episodes over PBS. That was a bit controversial at the time. Warnerbros cancelled the deal a couple years ago. Then Netflix picked up the show this time without the exclusive delay.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5403663/sesame-street-netflix-pbs
Knew a grover. He’s over 100.
Checks out
I dated a girl named Hilary once. She was okay.
Must have been hilarious.
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
One of the funniest videos of politicians that I’ve seen recently was a casual meetup of Poland’s PM Donald Tusk and the then incoming Hungarian PM Magyar. He had just defeated Viktor Orban, Putin’s fifth column in the EU and authoritarian asshole of the year. Magyar introduces one of his ministers to Tusk. I don’t remember which ministry but her name is also Orban. Tusk is ever so briefly taken aback by the mention of that name, which Magyar realizes and quickly adds: “No relation.” They giggle at the mixup and Tusk just fires off nonchalantly something like: “Well, my name is Donald.” They laugh and move on.
#WholesomePolitics
Karen is similarly poisonous
That one at least is a shortened form of Katherine, which people won’t associate with Karen.
…it is?
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.
I love the line “The last Karen…”
Of course he’s a cop
Is Isis still off-limits?
Probably, this standard has been forced to rename itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_and_Scanner_Interface_Specification
Naming your kid Judas or lucifer has been pretty taboo for the past 2000 years.
Adolf Israel Jihad
I wonder if it could be refined to be less…literal? “Adolfo Semit Al-Jihad” or something.
Donald, Vladimir, Zedong, Jinping, Il, or Un
Also sort of shifty is Muammar and Hugo.
Joseph seems a little more benign by comparison, no?
Small correction: Jong is Kim Jong Un’s given name, not Un. his father was Kim Jong Il whose given name was also Jong and his father was Kim Il Sung whose given name is Il.
You guys are both wrong.
Their given names are Ilsung, JongIl, and Jongun(I prefer Jeongeun). We do not have concept of middle name.
Ilsung and Jungil are not so common. Never seen anyone personally.
Jungeun: pretty common. It’s a girl’s name actually.
Source: am Korean.
Nobody names kids “Adolf” here, even today. That name is thoroughly burned.
I am German and have an uncle whose name is Adolf. His dad/my grandpa also had the name Adolf, but he got the name before WWII.
My parents told me that my uncle has this name because my grandpa misunderstood the nurse when my uncle was born. He supposedly understood “What’s your name?”, while she asked “How should he be named?”. He then said “Adolf” obviously, because that’s his name. And it’s said that once they figured out the error, it was too late to be undone.
There’s a certain scepticism about this story being real. But for sure my grandpa didn’t do it to honor Adolf Hitler (aka being a Nazi. I don’t know about his doings during WWII tbh, but at least how I perceived him, he didn’t have any sympathy for Nazis), maybe he did it because he wanted to name a son after himself while the name was burnt…
Just a tidbit from my life :D
your uncle prob thought “if I dealt with it my whole life someone else will now, too”
Grandpa*
My uncle was the “victim” :D
My grandpa’s name is Donald. I was gonna name my kid after him.
Sorry, grandpa.
The solution is obvious: name your kid Grandpa.
Middle name, maybe?
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.
Not yet, there are people who have, and will, name their kids Donald. They might actually give him the “t” middle initial too.
It is also just…an old person’s name right now.
It is up there with Donna
I see the throught process but I doubt most people care
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