Alexa, what are some baby names to avoid today?
Gaylord
Meanwhile you still probably have a few naming their kid Khaleesi in 2026
Kelly C!
Apparently Brooklyn was full of toddlers named Sufjan 20 years ago. So there’d be a cohort of twentysomething dudes named Sufjan around these days.
See also: names like Liam and Kylie which were a lot less common before the 90s. Not to mention the girls’ name Madison (from a mermaid in an 80s movie).
Sufjan
Sufjan was big 20 years ago? No that can’t be right, that would be… 2006…
I faked my age was 18 for an app yesterday. I put ‘25th June 2008’.
Illinoise for sure was the soundtrack to a few conceptions
Not to mention Big Bird and Piggy. Completely gone now.
And William Golding wrote about a boy called Piggy
Better that than Karen.
And Adolf.
Damn, my grandad’s name was Adolf. He came to the US as a child, and then fought in WWII. I can’t imagine the amount of shit he caught in the military back then, but I know he hated it. Nobody who knew him called him by his first name
What a Nimrod!
What makes it worse is Bugs used the name in proper context as an insult.
Good sarcasm does that
And we can blame that one on Buggs Bunny.
We can blame that on the people who watched it and didn’t understand the sarcasm.
To be fair most of them were children at the time
And it’s not the most well known bible character.
What’s that, Bart and Homer?
I went to school with a Homer, he lived up to the name and he wasn’t a Greek poet. I’d never name my child that.
But then you’d be able to call him “homie”
I went to school with a Homer, he lived up to the name and he wasn’t a Greek poet
That’s the best insult I’ve seen this month
Bart is a pretty common name here in the Netherlands (and Belgium).
Homer isn’t.
Barney. Himym tried to normalize it.
Does the purple dinosaur mean nothing?!
I think it’s a question of comparing how common a name is to how iconic its new use is. Sesame street didn’t stop people from naming their kids Oscar. (or The Count /s)
Way more powerful than Donald Duck it seems.
Nothing changed for Donald… either way you’re a clown.
deleted by creator
