Names that became unusable, like Kermit

In My Humble Opinion
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In Latin American countries, all rules are suspended. I live in the Dominican Republic and have travelled in most Latin American countries, and have found that:

  • Elmer, Elvis, Felix and Vladimir are fairly common. No one bats an eyelid.

  • Homer(o) and other classical Greek names like Achilles and Pericles are still to be found, especially among the older generation.

  • Adolf(o), as well as Stalin and even Stalina as a first name for a girl, as well as Hitler and Mussolini are also not unheard of.

Slight hijack - naming girls after place-names is another strange one. I’ve met several Kenyas, Grecias, a Bélgica and even an Albania and a Hanoi.

Never met a Kermit though.

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We have twin guys in our company…

Elvis and Melvis…

tsfr

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My circle of friends contains people with all four of these names. Sometimes several of them occupy the same place at the same time.

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That wouldn’t happen to be a lunchcounter & ice cream shop run by a fat guy name Tates, would it?

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Hey! That’s my name!

Come to think of it, there are few Richards I’ve known my age. It’s so normal but not common… never thought of the Nixon connection.

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I know a Kermit…he’s about 45, and I know a lot of Richards, but most of them go by Rick or Rich…not a Dick in the bunch. And they are all under 40.

I had a friend in high school named Gay…her sister was Gigi, her mother Gwen (brothers Greg and Guy…notice a trend…their last name started with a G, also) but I can imagine that the name Gay is no longer popular.

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But do they have a friend named Jughead?

I thought Bruce was the quintessential Australian name, not the quintessential gay name.

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I had a professor named Rudolph. I confess to thinking about the reindeer. Apologies to all Rudolphs everywhere.

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Please report to the front office for your beating.

Thank you!

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This thread reminds me of this sketch.

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That’s right. In college, my sister switched to her middle name, Elizabeth. I went by my middle name up until the third grade. So that limited the window a little. No one in either my immediate or extended family was ever a Peter Pan fan. So I was only tormented with the Peter Cotton-Tail song by the one unhinged aunt. And living in the DC area meant that “Peter” didn’t have any slang meaning to bother me.

But yeah, got off lucky.

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Yes, that’s Larry Mudd’s RL name, isn’t it?