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[–] 65 points 4 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    And we can blame that one on Buggs Bunny.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    We can blame that on the people who watched it and didn't understand the sarcasm.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Meanwhile you still probably have a few naming their kid Khaleesi in 2026

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    Sufjan

    Sufjan was big 20 years ago? No that can't be right, that would be... 2006...

    ETA: ....And I just pulled my back.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago

    Not to mention Big Bird and Piggy. Completely gone now.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Barney. Himym tried to normalize it.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    What's that, Bart and Homer?

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Crazy how we never see people named Miss Piggy anymore

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I grew up next to a Kermit who was born in the 1910s or 20s IIRC.

    And had a great uncle named homer.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Way more powerful than Donald Duck it seems.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, Grover is an amazing name to me. I really like Grover from Percy Jackson, for example

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Alexa, what are some baby names to avoid today?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    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)

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Nothing changed for Donald... either way you're a clown.

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    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

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Along the same line, I've met Barbaras but I've never met a Barbie.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Better that than Karen.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Who was named Elmo before the muppet?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    As legendary a badass as Robin/Nightwing is, he's unfortunately still a Dick.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Fun fact, the Roosevelt Kermit helped put us into the situation that exists in Iran today.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    And William Golding wrote about a boy called Piggy

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    There was an old guy with the first name "Adolf" at my parents' church when I was a kid in the 1970s.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    My childhood doctor was named Kermit.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    And Hitler.

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