Gaylord

Gaylord Perry 1938-2022 was a Major League Baseball player.

Frederick Gaylord Crane is a character from the shows "Cheers" and "Frasier". At one point he remarks that he'll never forgive his parents for giving him this name.

Gaylord Robinson is a minor character in the 2010s animated series 'The Amazing World of Gumball'. He's the titular character's grumpy neighbour.

I like this name. It is the name of the leading male character, Gaylord Ravenal, in Edna Ferber's famous novel Show Boat. It was also a famous Broadway musical play and a movie. I think people should rise above contemporary connotations given to names and appreciate them for where they came from. Although it should not cause sneers, teasing and bullying in this day and age the fact that so many people commented here that they think it will goes to show we really haven't progressed very far in our acceptance and tolerance of others. Sad.

In Barbara Park's novel The Kid in the Red Jacket, the protagonist, Howard Jeeter, has a baby brother named Gaylord. (I had to read this for school when I was in sixth grade, and no one in my language arts class laughed at his name, for what it's worth.)

Gaylord was the name of a toy "walking" dog introduced by the Ideal Toy Company in 1962.

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"GayyyyyLORD! When you pull his leash, he'll walkity-walkity-walk with you! BARK! BARK!" (That song always plays in my mind when I hear this name. Not a kid of the sixties, just like to watch old toy commercials on YouTube.)

Gaylord is a town in Minnesota.

Gaylord Ravenal is one of the main characters in the musical "Show Boat" (based on the novel of the same name; filmed multiple times, most notably in 1951 with Howard Keel in the role of Ravenal). It dates back to a time long before the word "gay" was used to mean "homosexual" - something which only became common in the second half of the 20th century.

Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat politician from Wisconsin, founded Earth Day, which was first celebrated in 1970. He was an active voice for the environment throughout his life and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995. Nelson died in 2005 at age 89.

Gaylord Focker is Ben Stiller's character in the films Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers. He goes by Greg, but his name is revealed at the end of the first film.