Naming your kid Donald now a days is like naming your kid Adolf in the 1940s.
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- 3 months
Naming your kid Judas or lucifer has been pretty taboo for the past 2000 years.
- 3 months
Not yet, there are people who have, and will, name their kids Donald. They might actually give him the “t” middle initial too.
- 3 months
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 🚨🗿.
Edit: btw, Donald Trump is an interesting name because it etymologically means “World Ruler Trump” and Trump, in card games and such, means “victor,” so 47’s name is “Victorious World Ruler.”
No wonder he has issues.
- 3 months
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.
3 monthsDonald, 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.
- VeryFrugal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 months
You guys are both wrong.
Their given names are Ilsung, JongIl, and Jongun(I prefer Jeongeun). We do not have concept of middle name.
Ilsung and Jungil are not so common. Never seen anyone personally.
Jungeun: pretty common. It’s a girl’s name actually.
Source: am Korean.
- 3 months
Probably, this standard has been forced to rename itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_and_Scanner_Interface_Specification
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.
- 3 months
Nobody names kids “Adolf” here, even today. That name is thoroughly burned.
- 3 months
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
- deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.mlEnglish3 months
your uncle prob thought “if I dealt with it my whole life someone else will now, too”
- 3 months
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…
- 3 months
If you allow Don as a shortened version of Donald there are a bunch. Don Juan, Don Quixote, etc.
- Auli@lemmy.caEnglish3 months
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.
- 3 months
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.
