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Popular culture and history has been known to bring rise to several popular baby names. A popular character or beloved celebrity can inspire people to name their own babies in their honor. Unfortunately, the opposite can happen as well. An extremely controversial public figure or a despised fictional character could bear a popular name. All of a sudden, everyone will immediately associate the name with that character or personality. As a result, the name's popularity drops off a cliff — people stop giving it to their babies and people who already bear the name will be in a very awkward position. This can cross with Hitler Ate Sugar when the name trend is killed due to one particularly infamous bearer. See also One-Mario Limit, Distanced from Current Events, Outdated Name, Trend Killer. |
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While it was never an extremely popular name, "Ursula" used to have its fans, being a name of the saint and was associated with Bond girl Ursula Andress. This all changed with the 1989 release of The Little Mermaid, which featured an old, heavyset, humanoid-octopus hybrid sea witch named Ursula as its main antagonist. Today, the name is usually thought of as "ugly" and is firmly associated with the Disney villain (though the plucky and relatably ordinary Ursula from Spider-Man 2 provided some unexpected relief on that score). | |
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Not that they were ever particularly popular names, but the names Bart, Homer, and Marge are so strongly associated with The Simpsons that you are unlikely to meet anyone with either name who wasn't born before it aired (1987 for the shorts, 1989 for the series proper). The same is true with the name Barney after Barney Gumble, an alcoholic best known for his Alcohol-Induced Idiocy (and it doesn't help that Gumble shares his given name with the likes of MGM's cartoon punching bag, Fred Flintstone's goofy friend, and more infamously a certain loathed dinosaur, as mentioned in the Live-Action TV folder). | |
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Peep Show may have contributed to the declining popularity of the name "Ian". Sophie insists on naming her and Mark's son "Ian", after her father, which Mark thinks is a particularly dull choice of name. | |
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The name "Toby" steadily became commonplace in the mid-20th century, entering the Top 200 in 1975. Then came Roots (1977) where Kunta Kinte was forced into being called "Toby" after his capture and enslavement. Popularity dropped like a rock soon afterward. Despite a brief resurgence in the Turn of the Millennium, "Toby" has never been as widespread as it was before Roots. That said, it didn't affect the popularity of the name in the UK. | |
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In the Spanish dub of Top Cat, Benny is named "Benito". Due to this, the name became unpopular in Mexico as it began to mean 'fat', relating to Benny's shape. | |
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The show I'm Alan Partridge gave the name Alan an association with the character (who is an obnoxious radio host/failed television presenter), which contributed to it losing popularity. | |
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The male name "Temel" and female name "Fadime" used to be very popular in the Black Sea region of Turkey, particularly among the Laz ethnic group in Trabzon and its surroundings. So popular and iconic were they that when Popeye first arrived in Turkey, the main characters' names were localised into Temel and Fadime. Gradually, however, the name Temel became the basis of ethnic stereotypes that portrayed the Laz people as hyperactive Street Smart Cloudcuckoolanders with a very distinct accent; a debilitating addiction for tea; and a tendency to rattle off in Motor Mouth. A desire to not be stereotyped; cultural drift; and perception of these names as old-fashioned all led to their steep decline in popularity. Some Laz organisations are now trying to incentivise parents to name their kids Temel and Fadime (alongside other more obscure regional names) in the name of cultural preservation. | |
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The popularity of HBO's Game of Thrones led to an explosion of children named after people from the show, particularly Main Character Daenerys ("dÉ™-NAIR-iss"), a Princess in Rags who becomes The Cape and the first Dragon Rider in centuries; her title, "Khaleesi" ("kah-LEE-see"), which she gets from being the wife of a Dothraki Khal, also got taken up as a name (and in fact, there's significantly more little girls named "Khaleesi" than "Daenerys"). When the show's last-minute Plot Twist involved Dany Jumping Off the Slippery Slope and changing from Big Good to Big Bad, the furor was newsworthy. | |
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"Vicky" as a nickname for Victoria fell out of favour in the UK in the mid-2000s due to the character of Vicky Pollard from Little Britain, a stupid, obnoxious female chav incapable of doing much besides inanely gossiping in a accent which for the rest of Britain has unfortunate associations of backwoods rurality and Country Bumpkin.note The performers were deliberately playing on the "cunning-but-stupid" associations of the accent, which is an unfair slur on people from the region and perpetuates a stereotype | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants probably was responsible for the name "Patrick" slowly but steadily declining in popularity since the early 2000s. It used to be in one of the top 50 most popular boy's names in the U.S. throughout the years from 1948 to 1996, but dropped out of the top 200 because the character popularized the name. | |
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Oddly enough, while Suicide Squad (2016) gave a big (if short-lived) boost to the name "Harley" in the US, it did the opposite in the UK. In the US, Harley had been known as a girl's name ever since The '90s when Batman: The Animated Series created the character of Harley Quinn. However, that show was never as popular in the UK as it was in the US, so over there, the character remained fairly obscure outside of comics fandom and her name was still mostly (though not exclusively) given to boys. As such, when the Suicide Squad movie premiered and the name Harley became associated with a Ms. Fanservice Villain Protagonist who became the film's Breakout Character, its popularity as a boy's name quickly fell, while the corresponding rise as a girl's name was too small to make up the difference. | |
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While the Twilight films boosted the popularity of the names of their characters, Kristen Stewart, the actress who played the female lead Bella, was not so lucky. Her flat performances in the films made her a punchline, to the point that the name "Kristen" dramatically fell off as the films came out, especially after her romance with Robert Pattinson ended with her having an affair. | |
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South Park is responsible for two names falling out of fashion since the late 90s: "Eric", although the name had been declining earlier in the decade. Still, Eric Cartman's racist, spoiled attitude made many parents wary on naming their kids that. The decline of "Kyle" is even more drastic for reasons unclear. The name went from being in the Top 25 to barely cracking the Top 400 a quarter of a century later. |
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The boys' name (never especially common) "Nimrod", originally named after a mighty hunter from the Book of Genesis, started falling out of popularity in the United States in the 1930s once it became a pejorative for a dimwitted or stupid person. This usage—at least according to some authorities—comes from the Looney Tunes, in which both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck sarcastically call Elmer Fudd a "Nimrod" to belittle his hunting prowess. The reference flew over the heads of many, and they just interpreted it as a straight insult (probably helped by aural similarity to terms like "nitwit" and "nincompoop"). The name still sees usage in other countries, however, most notably in Hungary, where it started rising in the late '00s and entered the top 25 boys' names in 2017. | |
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Oddly enough, "Damien" spiked as a boy's name in the late '70s thanks to The Omen (1976), but the same can't be said of the similar-sounding "Damon", which collapsed in popularity around the same time. | |
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