As does Zoot.
D’oh! I absolutely missed that completely. Thank you.
:hangs head in shame:
Due to Donald Duck, I have never been able to unsee the name as belonging to an anthropomorphic duck in a sailor suit. I have the same problem with Minnie and Claribel (Disney cow character from the original shorts). I won’t count Goofy as that’s not a real name.
Never met a Grover. Knew a guy whose nickname was Kermit. Worked with one who had Oscar as one of his middle names, and back in the late '70s I worked with an Elmo (who was in his 60s).
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Claribel/Clarabell was probably also spoiled for being a serious name, due to it being the name of one of the main characters (a clown) on The Howdy Doody Show.
I remember being 17 and studying Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” in English class. The shipwreck that is the central event of the plot was of the ship that was carrying the King of Naples and his retinue to the wedding of his daughter, Claribel, who was to marry the King of Tunis.
The daughter’s name stood out to me like a sore thumb.
This reminds me of Gladys. Apparently this was not an uncommon name at one point. But I can’t unsee “Gladys” as a cow, due to the Muppet character on Sesame Street. For this reason, I always imagine a human Gladys as a big, fat, frumpy lady.
However, there are characters whose names I don’t associate just with the Muppet or other animal character. For example, Chip and Dale I’ve always seen as human names as well. Or Daisy. Or Harry. I don’t imagine Herry Monster every time I hear “Harry.” I think the Muppet associations are in part due to names like Grover or Kermit being very distinctive. I’ve never known a Minnie in real life. I’m hard-pressed to remember a Donald I ever knew in person (I imagine the name is more common in Scotland).
“Gladys” immediately makes me think, Abner, Abner! I was peeking in Samantha’s window and she melted my eyes!
It’s a cruel twist of fate that most people will instinctively picture the not-particularly-big-or-fat World War I munitions magnate Bertha Krupp as a big fat woman, entirely because the howitzers her company manufactured were nicknamed “Big Berthas” in her honor, which caused “Bertha” to become a stereotypical “big fat woman” name.
Yeah, sounds a lot better.
My younger brother was named Donald. He passed away in January 2020, right at the start of the Pandemic.
Kinda like this:
A Donald rode the same school bus I did when I was in 2nd or 3d grade; he was five or six years older than I was. Knew another Donald when I was in high school, and worked for a Donald around eight years later. All three of them were normally called Don, not Donald.
Interesting about Donald falling in popularity. I guess I’ve known enough that I never noticed that it had waned. Looking at some yearbooks for my High School, in 1961 there were 8 Donalds. In 1969, there were 5. In 1977, one.
I’ved always liked the name “Donald,” along with other Scottish names like “Duncan,” “Gregor,” and “Ewan.”
Also for me, the names “Tillie” and “Hilda,” which apparently at one point were quite common. I don’t remember ever meeting one in real life, but I associate both with female hippos from the Richard Scarry books. Here’s Tillie Hippo and here’s Big Hilda.
I’ve always liked the name “Donald,” along with other Scottish names like “Duncan,” “Gregor,” and “Montgomery.”
When he was a wee lad, my brother was called “Donny.” I don’t know if this carried over into adulthood other than in my family, but Donny Osmond is enough for me to be put off ever calling a son of mine that way.
What if Dan Williams had been a “Donald” instead of a “Daniel”? Would Steve McGarrett have then said “Book 'em, Donny!”? I don’t think so.
Wasn’t Bertha Krupps just a little girl at the time of the First World War? 
To me, Millie and Tillie will always be the names of Minnie and Mickey Mouse’s two nieces in the Disney comics.
Hilda and Helga will always be Klink’s secretaries on Hogan’s Heroes.
Heidi was the name assigned to a girl in my homeroom by our high school German teacher. Her real name was Jean, and she was a knockout! 
I actually knew a girl named Millie when I was in college. This was back in the '80s, so I was surprised to learn it was short for Millicent, which was already old-fashioned at the time.
Born in July 1886, so 28 years old at the start of the war.
Ach so. But still the daughter of arms maker Friedrich Krupp.
Last night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jim Gaffigan mentioned Grover Cleveland. He said that the name Grover kind of disappeared, and that there was only Grover Cleveland and Grover from Sesame Street.