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).
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
My brothers name is Kermit... born before Sesame Street. He's taken a lot of teasing about it over the years but he's never seemed to mind and points out that everyone loves Kermit the Frog so he's not bothered.
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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thenextguy@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 53d
What a Nimrod!
einlander@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 53d
What makes it worse is Bugs used the name in proper context as an insult.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 53d
Good sarcasm does that
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 53d
And we can blame that one on Buggs Bunny.
snooggums@piefed.world · 14 pts · 53d
We can blame that on the people who watched it and didn't understand the sarcasm.
justaman123@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 53d
To be fair most of them were children at the time
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 53d
And it's not the most well known bible character.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 53d
Meanwhile you still probably have a few naming their kid Khaleesi in 2026
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 10 pts · 53d
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).
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 53d
Sufjan was big 20 years ago? No that can't be right, that would be... 2006...
ETA: ....And I just pulled my back.
thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.app · 6 pts · 53d
I faked my age was 18 for an app yesterday. I put '25th June 2008'.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 53d
I still use 1990 as my fake birth year lol.
Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
April 20th 1969
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
Illinoise for sure was the soundtrack to a few conceptions
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 53d
I pulled my back a few moments ago, so you must be right.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org · 7 pts · 53d
Khaleesi makes me irrationally mad. It's not even her name. Daenerys would be bad enough, but at last you could call them Danny.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 53d
Kelly C!
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 31 pts · 53d
Not to mention Big Bird and Piggy. Completely gone now.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 53d
Barney. Himym tried to normalize it.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
Does the purple dinosaur mean nothing?!
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 21 pts · 53d
What's that, Bart and Homer?
nomy@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 53d
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.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 53d
That's the best insult I've seen this month
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 53d
But then you'd be able to call him "homie"
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 53d
Bart is a pretty common name here in the Netherlands (and Belgium).
Homer isn't.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 53d
And Adolf.
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 53d
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
farmgineer@nord.pub · 13 pts · 52d
I grew up next to a Kermit who was born in the 1910s or 20s IIRC.
And had a great uncle named homer.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
My brothers name is Kermit... born before Sesame Street. He's taken a lot of teasing about it over the years but he's never seemed to mind and points out that everyone loves Kermit the Frog so he's not bothered.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 52d
Crazy how we never see people named Miss Piggy anymore
raid_dad@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 52d
My son was robbed of being named Big Bird.
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 52d
Quiet, Piggy.
Left a different kind of mark on that.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 53d
Way more powerful than Donald Duck it seems.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 53d
Gaylord
Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 52d
I mean, Grover is an amazing name to me. I really like Grover from Percy Jackson, for example
daveywaveyboy@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 51d
Grover Washington Jr. Smooth
Kittywifclaws@piefed.world · 8 pts · 53d
Better that than Karen.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 8 pts · 53d
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)
markstos@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 53d
Alexa, what are some baby names to avoid today?
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 9 pts · 52d
Donald
Geobloke@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 52d
My wife told her dying grandfather Don that she would honour him by taking his name for her yet to be born son. Luckily we had all girls
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 7 pts · 53d
Nothing changed for Donald... either way you're a clown.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
Along the same line, I've met Barbaras but I've never met a Barbie.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 52d
I've know a couple of Barbies
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 53d
Who was named Elmo before the muppet?
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 53d
There was a Saint Elmo at least.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 53d
I think I've seen a movie about his fire.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
As legendary a badass as Robin/Nightwing is, he's unfortunately still a Dick.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 53d
And William Golding wrote about a boy called Piggy
half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
Fun fact, the Roosevelt Kermit helped put us into the situation that exists in Iran today.
expect_nothing@leminal.space · 2 pts · 53d
There was an old guy with the first name "Adolf" at my parents' church when I was a kid in the 1970s.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d