Do you think the name 'Adolf' was terminally knackered by Hitler? (Page 2)

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Although this name was never widespread in the Anglophone world, it (or variants such as Adolphe, Adolfo etc) was once popular in most of western Europe.  With the exceptions of Sweden, and the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking nations, however, it is now a functionally extinct name, with very few people having been christened 'Adolf' since 1945, for obvious reasons.  Do you think it will ever re-emerge, or did Hitler effectively end it forever? I know if I came across a child named Adolf, my first assumption (assuming he didn't come from one of the countries I mentioned above) would be that the parents were being deliberately provocative, and were paying tribute to a genocidal mid-twentieth century tyrant...

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I know of people nowadays - being named Vlad. Or Joseph.  Time will forget 'their' relative contributions. Who knows: perhaps some day we also will see Donalds again.

Skyrim5346 · Answer

You are missing the most important fact it isn't Adolf that has been Knackered it's Hitler is Knackered do you hear about anyone with the name Hitler Himmler Goebbels Goering Hitler's father name was Alois he was just as antisemitic

Ad_Quid_Orator · Answer

Yep, just like the Swastika and the toothbrush mustache.

NaultD · Answer

The name could make a comeback well before the mustache.

Insomnia72 · Answer

Although Adolf Hitler wasn't born in Germany, I do think no one should name their child Adolf.

TheFlak38 · Answer

I doubt that it was widespread. It was always one of the rare names and yet it still exists as both a first and last name. Couple years ago I met a woman named Adolf.

SamirahD22 · Answer

He ruined the name with his nonsense. He was so quick to say the ideal aryan race is blonde hair and blue eyes yet he embodied none of that. He was a hateful sexually confused and frustrated man who thought behaving in this manner would hide that infact he was homosexual. He hated himself.

_SOARER_ · Answer

Unfortunately yes. It's a fine name. If I met a child with that name, I would assume it's a family name

Waffles731 · Answer

Yes it has, he also ruined the charlie chaplin mustache

-Asca- · Answer

Maybe. Of course that is a reason. But there are lots of names that only really old people have and that no child today would ever get. That is normal.

esotericstory · Answer

Its the sensitivity of the west now. If you talk about the 20's 30's 40's people just think about nazism. How can it not? Its in the media all the time.

alice55 · Answer

I would say yes in the sense that I cannot imagine naming any of my pet or future children n Adolf

broncobryan · Answer

Since he single handedly killed millions of Jews and created the second world war I'd say the name is doomed to never be reused ever.

skeetskeetskeet · Answer

That's my dog's name... I don't see the problem like my rabbi neighbor does

Chris12343212 · Answer

Yes sadly people will discriminate against you for your name. I watched a prison documentary one time and it interviewed a flamboyant homosexual black man whos first name was adolf. That guy never had a chance at a normal life.

ginger_supremacist · Answer

For a time... I mean Napoleon was hated even more after he was defeated, now he's a national hero in France, and a rare but acceptable name. When US troops leave, same will happen in Germany.

MrKinktastic · Answer

Permanently no, but it’s certainly toast until we have the next world war and a new villain rises.

cheapstickfreak · Answer

This name should NOT be used again. For the sake of the child, the family name, and if you dear humanity.

MoscowMitch · Answer

That reminds me...

Thatsamazing · Answer

Lol well... yeah man. Are you going to name YOUR kid "Adolf?" I'm sure not.

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