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A new mom took to Reddit to get advice after banning her siblings from being in her child's life since her baby's name is "triggering" for them. 
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Ask a woman called Karen what she used to think of her name, and you’ll hear phrases like “generic”, “perfectly serviceable” and “an easy name”. In 2020, Karen is no longer “an easy name”. Once popular for girls born in the 1960s, it then became a pseudonym for a middle-aged busybody with a blonde choppy bob who asks to speak to the manager. Now the moniker has most recently
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What happens when a name like Karen becomes tainted by association with negative traits or actions? Judging by the Dicks, Berthas and Adolphs of the world, the future is not looking bright for Karen.
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In 1965, it was the third-most-popular baby name in the United States. In 2018, it was the 635th — and today it’s even less popular. How did Karens fall so far?
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Now associated with a negative stereoptype, Karen looks to be on its way out.
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I’m not quite so worried that the representation of white women is going to be formed solely on the punchline of “Karen”
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This woman enforced a strict rule on her in-laws after they made one serious mistake.
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Not especially helpful spelling both names in two different ways...
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What happens when your name is perfectly reasonable in your home country, but raises a sympathetic smile when you're abroad?
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"I wanted to add some input to Jennifer’s request for information on people’s experience with common names that required spelling out. I am an unfortunate victim of just such a name, KATHRYN."
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You can't please all of the people all of the time...
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An Alabama couple is shocked at the backlash they've experienced after naming their newborn son "Krimson Tyde." Summer and Steven Steele, who are from the small town of Andalusia, Ala., named their son after Alabama University's football team, the...
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Apparently, now that Jersey Shore is cancelled and she already has experience naming one baby of her own, Snooki has gone into the baby-naming biz—and she's
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Casper and Violet - not bad, actually!
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“I sometimes make the joke, ‘Oh, my name is Karen. Like the meme,’ ” Hernandez said. “That’s when I get told by people, ‘You’re nothing like the meme. You’re nothing like the Karens. You’re a nice Karen.’ ”
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As one of 1.1 million women in the United States named Karen, seeing my name used as a randomly selected, lazy label for racist, privileged white women behaving badly is soul-crushing.
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Name memes like Karen, Becky and Kyle have stepped out of the virtual realm and into public discourse over the last few months. We explore the phenomenon.
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PEOPLE spoke with Nameberry CEO Pamela Redmond about the name's rise in popularity among searches - but likely not for good reason
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"Karen" is now a favorite and fast-evolving insult. What does it actually mean?
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How a quintessential baby boomer name became a slur aimed at Generation X In 2019, the generation gap came charging back. We’d already seen warning signs of its approach in the form of older people bad-mouthing millennials, but the 2019 version was no longer as simple as old vs. young. …
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Have you heard of “Kevinism”? It’s Europe’s bias against people who have first names that are “culturally devalued” like Kevin, Chantal, Mandy and Justin —…
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Ik kreeg hem dit weekend wel zes keer toegestuurd (bedankt iedereen!): een foto van een tijdschriftenpagina waarop drie wel heel opmerkelijke kindernamen te lezen zijn. Twink, Knut en Pluim? Zoals ...
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Are these siblings' names original, or over-the-top? Do you have any bad associations with the name Twink? It's quite sweet to learn, by the by, that some Dutch girls have been named Twinkelster ("Twinklestar").
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"Was at gymnastics with my youngest last night and heard this on a little boy in there. I am 50/50 with this I half like it and half don't because I don't really like how it has Kill in the name, you know what I mean? Sounds like an Irish name though and I do love Irish names."
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Correct, it's Irish. By chance, there was a Cillian in the most recent Babyberry report: http://nameberry.com/blog/new-babyberry-report-for-december-carrigan-cillian-and-clyde
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