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I think that ever since WWII the name Adolf has been a no-go.
I had a kid in school younger than I was who had that name. Dolph for short. He was a junior, so it was his father's name, and his father was the football couch. Well-liked father and son, so no one ever made fun of it.
I was thinking of the name Karen which until recently was just another name. For about a year it has conjured up images of a woman with a matronly hairstyle "complaining to the manager" about some perceived slight by an hourly worker.
I expect that Karen stereotype will disappear quite fast as most 'meme jokes' do
I had a client at one time whose first name was Letch.
Also, there was an attorney in Indianapolis named Donald Duck. He's now deceased.
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In the United States, the name Adolph experienced a notable decline in 1942, basically coinciding with the U.S. entry into the war. But the name had already been declining for many years, a drop which long preceded the rise of Hitler and Naziism. And while the drop would generally continue post-war, there were occasional rallies - for example, its popularity rose somewhat in 1945 and periodically later years while still continuing its general decline.
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Hitler used the spelling Adolf, which is the usage in the Germanosphere, but Adolph has long been the preferred spelling used in the English-speaking countries.
In the United States, the name Adolph experienced a notable decline in 1942, basically coinciding with the U.S. entry into the war. But the name had already been declining for many years, a drop which long preceded the rise of Hitler and Naziism. And while the drop would generally continue post-war, there were occasional rallies - for example, its popularity rose somewhat in 1945 and periodically later years while still continuing its general decline.
You're absolutely right, though it's also good to put it into perspective by taking note of the number of babies given the name. There were 94 Adolphs born in 1944; 117 in 1945; 95 in 1946. So although you are correct that usage rose slightly in 1945 and dropped again in 1946, the actual number was quite low all of those years.
By way of comparison there were nearly 77,000 babies named James in 1944, 74,000 named James in 1945, and 87,000 in 1946.
In the 90s, when Anderson Cooper worked the graveyard shift at ABC’s World News Now, one year, for girls, “Hillary” was the bad-baby name winner, and “Newt” was the bad-boy baby name winner.
In the U.S., certain nineteenth-century girls’ names most likely will not make a comeback—e.g., Bertha, Ethel, Josephine, Roberta. The prejudice seems weighed unfavorably against girls rather than boys’ names.
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