2006-08-27 13:17:12 · 11 answers · asked by curiousT 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I just find it amusing that one evil man destroyed the use of a name.
2006-08-27 13:29:53 · update #1
Adolph, one of the most historically stigmatized of all names, didn't drop as dramatically as you might think. Like most Germanic names, its U.S. popularity fell off after WWI. (Partially because of politics, partially because a fad for dense consonant-stuffed names had run its course.) But the name's decline after that was relatively slow and steady, given the course of history. WWII only bumped the name about 25% off its projected path:
Does that 25% drop represent an outer limit for a name's negative impact? After all, it's hard to imagine a name with more negative associations. As it turns out, though, there are other variables to consider -- and a few names have sunk like stones.
But there's another, pedestrian reason that it's hard to catch names getting killed off by infamy. Most were already dying natural deaths. After all, infamous villains are generally grownups...and the names of most grownups are on a downward slope.
2006-08-27 14:00:32 · answer #1 · answered by moonbeamlight1 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It just doesn't sound all that good, either. A lot of names given to children in that time period aren't given to babies anymore--I also don't know any baby girls or little girls named "Ethel," and the only Ethel from history that I'm familiar with is my great-grandma!
2006-08-27 20:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe in South America
2006-08-27 20:23:10 · answer #3 · answered by M N 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes. For example, Latin American name their kids "Adolfo." There were several Catholic "martyrs" named St. Adolph.
2006-08-27 20:26:16 · answer #4 · answered by JAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personaly do not know an "Adolph", but there may be in the Neo-Natzi shadows that still exist.
2006-08-27 20:20:36 · answer #5 · answered by I I 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some one is named adolf every single week at least somewhere. It's an old germanic name well honored.
2006-08-27 20:21:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My friend's step dad is named Adolf. Sort of unfortunate.
2006-08-27 20:24:34 · answer #7 · answered by DontPanic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've had a friend with that name and he was very proud of it. Always celebrated Hitler's birthday.
2006-08-27 20:24:48 · answer #8 · answered by greβ 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, i'm pretty sure they do!
2006-08-27 20:19:37 · answer #9 · answered by countrysoonergurl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is that, short for a dolphin?
2006-08-27 20:22:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋