My childhood doctor was named Kermit.
What a Nimrod!
What makes it worse is Bugs used the name in proper context as an insult.
And we can blame that one on Buggs Bunny.
We can blame that on the people who watched it and didn’t understand the sarcasm.
To be fair most of them were children at the time
Meanwhile you still probably have a few naming their kid Khaleesi in 2026
Apparently Brooklyn was full of toddlers named Sufjan 20 years ago. So there’d be a cohort of twentysomething dudes named Sufjan around these days.
See also: names like Liam and Kylie which were a lot less common before the 90s. Not to mention the girls’ name Madison (from a mermaid in an 80s movie).
Sufjan
Sufjan was big 20 years ago? No that can’t be right, that would be… 2006…
ETA: …And I just pulled my back.
And Adolf.