Anonymous wrote:The name we want to choose is Robert. My late fathers name.

He’d go by Robert

So the war criminal went by Bob or Bobby or Robbie?

I don't think I'd do it.

Anonymous wrote:The name we want to choose is Robert. My late fathers name.

He’d go by Robert

Was it a problem for your dad, then? You should have persona experience with this issue that can tell you how much of a problem it will be.

I would not. But I'm also not a fan of full on matching names even if the name was connected to a good person.

Anonymous wrote:One of my kids shares a fairly rare first name with an infamous head of the KGB. But there are lots of other people with that name too, and he certainly wasn't named AFTER that dude. It's never been an issue and we are certainly not Stalinists! Don't overthink.

does your kid also share the last name? that's what op is saying: the kid would share the first and last names.

Anonymous wrote:Probably not.

+1.

don't do that to you kid. Who cares if you "love" the name, your kid has to walk around with it everyday and deal with the negative consequences.

The name we want to choose is Robert. My late fathers name.

He’d go by Robert

One of my kids shares a fairly rare first name with an infamous head of the KGB. But there are lots of other people with that name too, and he certainly wasn't named AFTER that dude. It's never been an issue and we are certainly not Stalinists! Don't overthink.

When I see Theodore I think Roosevelt, not Bundy. That is a very common name.

How "unique" to this bad person is the name?

I don't see people objecting to the name Robert because of Lee, and there are only a gazillion Williams and Liams around despite Sherman. I think the Confederate general comment is plain stupid. No one associates those names primarily with the Confederacy.

Anonymous wrote:No. My first choice for a girl was always Katrina (pre-hurricane). My kid was born a couple years after and it was off the table.

dp I think you could have named her Katrina because they are so many names being used as hurricanes.

Definitely not.

Hell no. Don’t do that to your kid.

Nope. My parents actually changed my planned name because I’d have the same full name as one of Ted Bundy’s victims so no way I would use the same name as the perpetrator.

No. My first choice for a girl was always Katrina (pre-hurricane). My kid was born a couple years after and it was off the table.

Anonymous wrote:Oh man now I want to know who the war criminal is. If it’s a Nazi no, don’t use the name- if some obscure confederate general (JB Hood or something like that) then go for it.

No need for a little baby Heinrich Himmler

No need for baby Confederate generals either.