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The given name Adolf, which used to be fairly common among Germanic peoples, seems to have fallen (justifiably) into almost total disuse in the years since WWII. We're there any other times in history when one universally reviled person "ruined" a popular name?

by /u/Lynx_Rufus in /r/AskHistorians

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