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Yeah, like Bitey said, it has a sexualized connotation that basically nobody overlooks. There was a popular band some years ago named "Cherry Poppin' Daddies" (which is a pretty shocking band name now that I think about it, but it was humorous). The slang about hymens is now very dated and sounds pretty lame/quaint, but people use "pop the cherry" metaphorically, in a facetious way, to refer to doing things for the first time. Cherry is also a term to describe the condition of an exceedingly well-cared-for vintage sports car.

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I don't think Cherry is as totally unusable as Adolf seems - it'd sound name-ish, because Sherry is so common - but a lot of people would raise an eyebrow at it, and that'd put me off using it.

This message was edited 4/4/2019, 1:23 AM

In the US it's a slang word for hymen ("popping your cherry" = losing your virginity)

It's unusable in the US because there is a brand of pancake mix, fake maple syrup, and frozen pancakes and waffles called "Aunt Jemima." The issue is that when the brand first started, in the 1880s, when it offered only the pancake mix, a picture of an African-American woman, which was racist and unattractive, was featured on the box. She was depicted as a typical "mammy", and in fact, a little later, between 1910 and 1920, the advertising company that was hired created an entire back story for her which stated that she was a former slave who was locally famous in Mississippi for her pancakes and who then divulged her secret recipe to a flour company which then marketed the secret recipe. None of which was true, of course. The recipe was in fact created by a white man.

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This advertising campaign persisted through the 1940s and 1950s and was abandoned only in the 1960s. Aunt Jemima, as pictured on the products, continued to look like a slave until the late 1980s. Nowadays, she looks like any African-American woman, the bandanna is gone and she wears pearl earrings. Still, her name is very associated with racism and most African-Americans hate the very idea of Aunt Jemima. Still, it's too valuable a brand name among whites for Quaker Oats to consider abandoning it.

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Even though many whites are insensitive to what Aunt Jemima represents, her existence still makes the name unusable to them, if only because it's associated with an enslaved mammy.

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Okay, now that I explained the whole thing anyway, here's the Wiki article on it:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima

This message was edited 4/3/2019, 7:58 AM

Jemima is a problematic name in the US because of this brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima

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I really like Adolf (and its Finnish form Aadolf) and I think Lucifer has a great meaning, but I would never use them in real life because of their bad connotations.

This message was edited 4/3/2019, 8:00 AM

I think it is too!

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That's ok though, it's a family name and my uncle and cousins have since used it, so I say their branch of the family can have the name. lol!

That's a good point. Didn't think of that. But I hate Donald anyway.