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[-] Beacon@fedia.io 17 points 2 weeks ago

The vast majority of popular names come from ancient characters

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago

Except for the name "Madison", which comes from the 1984 Tom Hanks movie Splash.

[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Fun fact: CGP Grey only makes videos on topics ending in "on."

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Its just a surname used as a first name, one of America's cuter, more demure methods of cultural appropriation.

[-] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 weeks ago

And also the name "Cameron", which comes from 2012 series Total Drama: Revenge of the Island

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

Half of them are from the Bibles.

It's crazy to think that if you traveled back in time 2000 years ago you could hang out with guys named John, Luke and Mark.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Those are their translated names.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Mike, Paul, Dave too

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hence the term "Christian name", meaning one's first name.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago
[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not mine because it's an ethnonym, though I guess it's ancient source is Roman. Also the Roman version is still used as a nickname even though it makes my name longer.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

And here I was thinking it was a Fallout reference

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Technically a vaultdweller in fallout could be considered a pseudo-ethnicity.

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