Naming your kid Donald now a days is like naming your kid Adolf in the 1940s.
I see the throught process but I doubt most people care
Of course he’s a cop
Nominative determinism
Of course he’s a cop in the state that’s pretty much where “coronelismo” still reigns
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.
Knew a grover. He’s over 100.
Checks out
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
I dated a girl named Hilary once. She was okay.
Must have been hilarious.
If she didn’t commit war crimes in Libya, she’s alright by me.
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
I wouldn’t say Hilary’s poisoned. Matter of fact, I can’t remember the last time I saw a Clinton headline much less scandal. Also, my definitive Hilary will always be Hilary Banks lol
Taboos can be positive, negative, or just reserved. For example in Judaism writing “God” is taboo, and Jews will frequently write “G-d”. Same with YHWH. They will not say the tetragrammaton. Instead many will substitute the word Adonai.
Of course there are diverse groups of people. So for Hillary, depending on someone’s political persuasion could be a positive name, a negative name, or just so synonymous with her it’s reserved.
President of Africa.
The country of africa?
I had a black student named Adolf, in the US. He’d be mid 30s by now. I wonder if his mom was African instead of the more common African American who’s grsndparents were part of the migration from the aouth to upper midwest.
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 up there with Donna
It is also just…an old person’s name right now.
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.
Naming your kid Judas or lucifer has been pretty taboo for the past 2000 years.
I wanted to name my son Lucian and my wife was vehemently opposed to it because it sounded too much like Lucifer to her…
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 stache for sure, but the hair?
Real dude… I was writing a story a while back, and usually when naming characters I just pull one from the noggin that “feels right”, and I fell on “Donnie” for a young delinquent that was meant to bite off more than he can chew picking a fight with real criminals. When I revisited it a bit later in time, I internally cringed and had to pick a different name altogether lol
Shame because I felt like the name suited him so well that I wound up not continuing the story much after that.
giving non-gender-neutral names should be taboo
this is not supposed to be like a rude comment but what actually makes a name non gender neutural besides socital expectations.
societal expectations
not much else really
but the societal expectations do exist and do have an effect
your question sounds like gatekeeping/invalidating trans ppl
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
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All hail the age of Doug!
Dog bless his soul
Yeah, I fuckin hate Bezos. /anti-joke
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.Well, there’s Donald Knuth
Who?
The author of the most boring software development book in history.
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.
My grandpa’s name is Donald. I was gonna name my kid after him.
Sorry, grandpa.
The solution is obvious: name your kid Grandpa.
Name your kitten/puppy grandpa. Then you can tell everyone that you had to have grandpa put to sleep
Middle name, maybe?
