Naming your kid Donald now a days is like naming your kid Adolf in the 1940s.
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.
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?
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.
The country of africa?
President of Africa.
Of course he’s a cop
Of course he’s a cop in the state that’s pretty much where “coronelismo” still reigns
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m sure, like most Kennedies, he Kermitted his fair share of crimes
I dated a girl named Hilary once. She was okay.
If she didn’t commit war crimes in Libya, she’s alright by me.
Must have been hilarious.
Elmo too certainly
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
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
Or naming your kid Jeffrey. I think that name is done.
All hail the age of Doug!
Dog bless his soul
Yeah, I fuckin hate Bezos. /anti-joke
Adolf Israel Jihad
I wonder if it could be refined to be less…literal? “Adolfo Semit Al-Jihad” or something.
I think I went to school with that guy…
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
Who?
The author of the most boring software development book in history.
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?
Nobody shied away from Joseph after Stalin.
why would they?
Ah the innocence of youth.
Indeed
Hmm. You seem kinda stupid. There is no correlation between the U.S.S.R. participating in WWII, and the negative opinions people hold for Joseph V. Stalin.
But hey, you’re young and dumb. You’ve got time to grow out of it.
Hmm. You seem kinda stupid
LOL as if that isn’t projection.
But hey, you’re a dumb americunt who doesn’t know history and at best has had the colored education from his backward shithole.
The peasants having to resort to insults when confronted with things they don’t like.
Glad you’re going down the shitter fast, am enjoying it tremendously.
Great entertainment. Blocking you now since I you have nothing of value to offer.
Bye loser
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.
