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Nowadays, unique names of popular fictional characters often end up as children's names (e.g. how Twilight made Bella a popular baby name in the Anglophone world). Did this happen before mass media? E.g. did Shakespeare's plays cause a spate of kids named Romeo, Hamlet, Juliet, Viola, Cordelia, etc?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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