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HelpRe: Dylan questions
in reply to a message by Buneary
I've been seeing the male usage of Ariel appear around here... which, in my opinion, is a name that is far more at risk to be associated with another sickening happening in the United States.
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he isn't even the first Dylan ...
To commit an atrocity in the US. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shot up Columbine High School way back in 1999. They even racked up a higher body count, but that didn't seem to stop many people using the name Dylan, or Eric too, though I guess Eric is a bit less trendy than Dylan.
There's actually fairly few names that have been rendered unusable via bad associations. Adolf is the main one that comes to mind; not like Adolf was ever popular by any stretch here, but it was fairly well-used in Europe. (I did actually meet an American Adolf years ago, a counselor; he was a very nice man and I thought it was a real shame he'd been saddled with that first name, coupled with a rather fierce-sounding Germanic last name.)
I'm told Myra became unusable in the UK because of serial killer Myra Hindley, but the impression I got was that Myra was already pretty uncommon there in the first place; if she'd been named Mary, say, I doubt it would have seen an abrupt decline.
To commit an atrocity in the US. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shot up Columbine High School way back in 1999. They even racked up a higher body count, but that didn't seem to stop many people using the name Dylan, or Eric too, though I guess Eric is a bit less trendy than Dylan.
There's actually fairly few names that have been rendered unusable via bad associations. Adolf is the main one that comes to mind; not like Adolf was ever popular by any stretch here, but it was fairly well-used in Europe. (I did actually meet an American Adolf years ago, a counselor; he was a very nice man and I thought it was a real shame he'd been saddled with that first name, coupled with a rather fierce-sounding Germanic last name.)
I'm told Myra became unusable in the UK because of serial killer Myra Hindley, but the impression I got was that Myra was already pretty uncommon there in the first place; if she'd been named Mary, say, I doubt it would have seen an abrupt decline.
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