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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The vast majority of popular names come from ancient characters

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

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

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

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

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Half of them are from the Bibles.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 2 days ago
[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

Those are their translated names.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Mike, Paul, Dave too

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 days ago (1 children)

And here I was thinking it was a Fallout reference

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