Apparently Brooklyn was full of toddlers named Sufjan 20 years ago. So there’d be a cohort of twentysomething dudes named Sufjan around these days.
See also: names like Liam and Kylie which were a lot less common before the 90s. Not to mention the girls’ name Madison (from a mermaid in an 80s movie).
Damn, my grandad's name was Adolf. He came to the US as a child, and then fought in WWII. I can't imagine the amount of shit he caught in the military back then, but I know he hated it. Nobody who knew him called him by his first name
My brothers name is Kermit... born before Sesame Street. He's taken a lot of teasing about it over the years but he's never seemed to mind and points out that everyone loves Kermit the Frog so he's not bothered.
I think it's a question of comparing how common a name is to how iconic its new use is. Sesame street didn't stop people from naming their kids Oscar. (or The Count /s)
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My childhood doctor was named Kermit.
What a Nimrod!
What makes it worse is Bugs used the name in proper context as an insult.
Good sarcasm does that
And we can blame that one on Buggs Bunny.
We can blame that on the people who watched it and didn't understand the sarcasm.
To be fair most of them were children at the time
And it's not the most well known bible character.
Meanwhile you still probably have a few naming their kid Khaleesi in 2026
Apparently Brooklyn was full of toddlers named Sufjan 20 years ago. So there’d be a cohort of twentysomething dudes named Sufjan around these days.
See also: names like Liam and Kylie which were a lot less common before the 90s. Not to mention the girls’ name Madison (from a mermaid in an 80s movie).
Sufjan was big 20 years ago? No that can't be right, that would be... 2006...
ETA: ....And I just pulled my back.
I faked my age was 18 for an app yesterday. I put '25th June 2008'.
I still use 1990 as my fake birth year lol.
April 20th 1969
Illinoise for sure was the soundtrack to a few conceptions
I pulled my back a few moments ago, so you must be right.
Khaleesi makes me irrationally mad. It's not even her name. Daenerys would be bad enough, but at last you could call them Danny.
Kelly C!
Not to mention Big Bird and Piggy. Completely gone now.
Barney. Himym tried to normalize it.
Does the purple dinosaur mean nothing?!
What's that, Bart and Homer?
I went to school with a Homer, he lived up to the name and he wasn't a Greek poet. I'd never name my child that.
That's the best insult I've seen this month
But then you'd be able to call him "homie"
Bart is a pretty common name here in the Netherlands (and Belgium).
Homer isn't.
And Adolf.
Damn, my grandad's name was Adolf. He came to the US as a child, and then fought in WWII. I can't imagine the amount of shit he caught in the military back then, but I know he hated it. Nobody who knew him called him by his first name
I grew up next to a Kermit who was born in the 1910s or 20s IIRC.
And had a great uncle named homer.
My brothers name is Kermit... born before Sesame Street. He's taken a lot of teasing about it over the years but he's never seemed to mind and points out that everyone loves Kermit the Frog so he's not bothered.
Crazy how we never see people named Miss Piggy anymore
My son was robbed of being named Big Bird.
Quiet, Piggy.
Left a different kind of mark on that.
Way more powerful than Donald Duck it seems.
Gaylord
I mean, Grover is an amazing name to me. I really like Grover from Percy Jackson, for example
Grover Washington Jr. Smooth
Alexa, what are some baby names to avoid today?
Donald
My wife told her dying grandfather Don that she would honour him by taking his name for her yet to be born son. Luckily we had all girls
Better that than Karen.
I think it's a question of comparing how common a name is to how iconic its new use is. Sesame street didn't stop people from naming their kids Oscar. (or The Count /s)
Nothing changed for Donald... either way you're a clown.
Along the same line, I've met Barbaras but I've never met a Barbie.
I've know a couple of Barbies
Who was named Elmo before the muppet?
There was a Saint Elmo at least.
I think I've seen a movie about his fire.
And William Golding wrote about a boy called Piggy
Fun fact, the Roosevelt Kermit helped put us into the situation that exists in Iran today.
As legendary a badass as Robin/Nightwing is, he's unfortunately still a Dick.
There was an old guy with the first name "Adolf" at my parents' church when I was a kid in the 1970s.