It’s a super-popular first name in Hungary, apparently.
My search of our data base of those once under state supervision shows:
One with the first name of Nimrod.
Also one Atilla and 2 named Attila
3 named Isis (all female)
One Atticus
2 named Draco
But no Anakin, no Tiberius, no Danaerys, no Vlad (but one Vlado).
Yes, it’s a completely common name in Hungary. (In 2018, it was the 28th most popular name. In the years 1965-1985, it was the 4th most popular name.) Off the top of my head, I knew at least three Atillas on a personal level, and met many more in passing. Another one that people, or at least English speakers, find a bit surprising is the name Zoltán, which almost sounds, I guess, like the name of a futuristic or fantasy character or something (and this was before Dude, Where’s My Car’s Zoltan! character.) It’s also a very common Hungarian name (the most popular, according the cite above, from 1975-1984, and second most from 1965-1974).
You said “queen” twice.
*three Attilas. Dammit. Two Ts, one L. It’s like Cincinnati. Half the time I want to spell it Cincinatti. Or graffiti/grafitti. I’m otherwise a good speller, but those words always slow me down and I have to double check.
A few years ago I hired a father/son painting company. Both were named Attila (and were Hungarian).
“Yo, Big Daddy Vlad-O! What’s with all the impaling?”
And in Turkey too, I am told. I knew one Attila in Berlin in the 80’s, he used to make a mean BBQ in the Lausitzer Platz for free in front of his bar. The drinks were not free.
No, that’s not it at all. Atticus is pretty racist in the sequel, that’s the problem.
Adolf Marx changed his name to Arthur, but he is better known as Harpo.
What about modern day idiots who name their sons Adolph?
I like queens.
There’s an Attila at one of the high schools I work at. I think he’s on the football team.
Wikipedia:
Madison, commonly spelled Maddison in Northeastern England, is a variant of Mathieson, meaning son of Matthew, although possibly occasionally standing for son of Maddy, where Maddy is a pet form of Maud.[1]
I guess you could say they like rape!
“…as he’s going to be teaching politics, I’ve told him he’s welcome to teach any of the great socialist thinkers, provided he makes it clear that they were wrong.” - Monty Python, “Bruces”
Uh, what? :dubious: Googling Madison & “son of a soldier” results in literally nothing about the name.
It’s kinda not in the name.
The son part is, and the point was that the name was given to girls.
Eh, it’s a remembered reference. Not going to worry about it, tbh.
Regardless, starting in 1984, people gave their daughters a masculine name (…son) because of a joke in a movie, which fits the OP quite well.
And? Names change; Douglas used to be a girls’ name, until it wasn’t.
It’s not an error or something people are going to think ‘Oops, I though I was naming little Madison after someone cool, not someone eeevil’. Names have been switching gender associations for centuries.
I’m not the one who posted the example, but that’s what I assume the point was.
The topic of the thread is “naming kids after fictional characters going bad”.
Madison, as a female name in the United States o’ America, was originally a joke in a movie. It’s also… regardless whether “soldier” is a part of the etymology or not (and I legitimately thought it was, but nbd)… a masculine name.
So it fits the topic quite appropriately, and I’m fine with listing it here.