# other people named Hitler.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-people-named-hitler/209471
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 25, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-people-named-hitler/209471 "2003-10-25T11:47:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeks)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-people-named-hitler/209471/1 "2003-10-25T11:47:57Z")
Are there any people, outside of the occasional name change flake , who still goes by the name of Hitler? Was it a common name before WW2?
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### Author:  [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-people-named-hitler/209471/2 "2003-10-25T12:46:55Z")
[http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cginbr.dll?ID=10418732&ABS=0&FUNC=MORE&TYPE=1008&MEM=1&L=Hitler&S=NY&QV=02F32E16F061923F84303203O01F3ED113E60923F94303203O03F32F3D3E60923FE4303203](http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cginbr.dll?ID=10418732&ABS=0&FUNC=MORE&TYPE=1008&MEM=1&L=Hitler&S=NY&QV=02F32E16F061923F84303203O01F3ED113E60923F94303203O03F32F3D3E60923FE4303203)
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### Author:  [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-people-named-hitler/209471/3 "2003-10-25T12:52:05Z")
**KidCharlemagne’s** link is only for NY. Nationally, [switchboard.com](http://switchboard.com) turns up 12 Hitlers in the U.S. (well, 13, but there’s a duplicate in there).
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### Author:  [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-people-named-hitler/209471/4 "2003-10-25T12:52:17Z")
These threads might answer your question and give you more information:
[How many Hitlers live in Germany??](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=184846)
[How come there aren’t any other Hitlers or Stalins?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=179441)
[Hitler in Circleville, Ohio?!?!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=123756)
[What’s it like to be named Hitler?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=105892)
[Where Have All the Hitlers Gone?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23699)
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-people-named-hitler/209471/5 "2003-10-25T13:22:52Z")
There’s a Hit **t** ler that works in my job. There were a few comments in the IT dept. when the request came in to set up a machine for him. He’s the closest I’ve ever seen to Hitler in my experience.
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### Author:  [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-people-named-hitler/209471/6 "2003-10-25T14:04:20Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Early Out \*
> \*\ ***KidCharlemagne’s** link is only for NY. Nationally, [switchboard.com](http://switchboard.com) turns up 12 Hitlers in the U.S. (well, 13, but there’s a duplicate in there). \*\*
Yea I just did a quick search in NY and got a hit and found it amusing the poor guy lived in Flatbush.
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### Author:  [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-people-named-hitler/209471/7 "2003-10-25T14:21:07Z")
I’d say that by this time, there could be Jews named Hitler living in the USA. There could even be Orthodox Jews named Hitler living in the USA.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-people-named-hitler/209471/8 "2003-10-25T14:26:54Z")
[Month Python sketch voice] “Oh hello Mr. Hilter!” [/Month Python sketch voice]