Naming your kid Donald now a days is like naming your kid Adolf in the 1940s.
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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.
Nobody shied away from Joseph after Stalin.
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…
However, DioramaOfShit is a great name!
Or naming your kid Jeffrey. I think that name is done.
All hail the age of Doug!
Yeah, I fuckin hate Bezos. /anti-joke
One of my good friend’s is named Adolf.
In Sweden there are lots of Adolfsson (son of adolf). I think it’s more Hitler that’s the forbidden name.
In germany though Adolf is also taboo. There is even a german drama movie about this naming choice (I think its called “Der Name”, so “The Name”)
Adolph was a relatively uncommon name in English, and thus became taboo easily. In Sweden, Adolf has historically been a common name, largely eclipsing all that unpleasantness happening to the south that Sweden didn’t participate in anyway, do why should families change their surname?
Having said that, naming a child Adolf in Sweden is still uncommon, though presumably more out of concern that he may have a hard time if he travels.
Unless you’re in Asia or somewhere in Africa, I’m guessing your friend’s parents have dodgy political views.
My grandpa’s name is Donald. I was gonna name my kid after him.
Sorry, grandpa.
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.
Well, there’s Donald Knuth
Karen is similarly poisonous
Contrary to what other peole say, donald is still super common as a name. It’s culturally significant to many nationalities and scottish people don’t really let the fact that the 47th POTUS is a tosser interfere with what they name their kids. I think various commonwealth countries (e.g in the caribbean) like it as a first name, and loads of american people born since '45 have had it - actors, musicians, artists.
I think people should be allowed to use the name adolf without it conjuring association with 🚨🗿.
I think people should be allowed to use the name adolf without it conjuring association with 🚨🗿.
First can of worms of the day, thanks.
I disagree, because Donald is already owned by many other famous figures, many predating trump. It is a name with notoriety, but it is more in grounds with say Napoleon Bonaparte, and other such significant political entities. The dilution period for his name will be even sooner than Napoleon though because of the popularity of his name, so we probably won’t see it entirely disappear from naming conventions the way Adolf has. It might raise eyebrows within certain social circles for a while, but honestly not much more, particularly as you leave the American sphere of influence.
Can Cyril make a return then?
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.
