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He should be wearing a backwards hat and holding a red bull (infosec.pub)
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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The vast majority of popular names come from ancient characters

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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

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

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

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

Half of them are from the Bibles.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months 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.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Those are their translated names.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Mike, Paul, Dave too

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

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

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Good point!

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

And here I was thinking it was a Fallout reference

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

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