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These days, pretty much nobody would name a baby boy Elmo, Casper, or Barney thanks to the puppet, the ghost, and the dinosaur. Is this a television-age phenomenon, or are there older instances of a name “ruined” by popular media?

by /u/George4Mayor86 in /r/AskHistorians

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