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Forty years ago, I worked for a very pleasant elderly Jew whose name was Adolf. There was never any association with bad things about him. I think you would mor
by oldandtired 9y ago
Forty years ago, I worked for a very pleasant elderly Jew whose name was Adolf. There was never any association with bad things about him. I think you would more likely find the names Hitler or Stalin as being a little bit more problematic.
I know my reaction is more to the surname than the first name.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoAlso note that people do not tend to react negatively to the name Joseph. I'd ascribe that to it being much more common name than Adolf, though.
- PeterisP 9y agoAdolf used to be a quite common name (1%-2% of population) and it was popular in many countries e.g. Sweden including the Gustav Adolf line of kings, Netherlands, Adolphe in France, Adolfo in Spain and Portugal, etc. Joseph has a solid anchor as a biblical name, though, and Stalin wasn't condemned nearly as much as Hitler was.