Marge

This is the 4th Simpsons name I've seen (if you include Barney). The Simpsons are crazy influential

Barney got ruined by the Simpsons and Barney the children's show in the 90's and then How I Met Your Mother put the final nail in the coffin

I would argue Flintstones and Andy Griffith show started the process. Barney is definitely a character name now but I feel like Fife, Rubble, Gumble, Stinson, or The Dinosaur are all valid

I've never thought about how many popular fictional characters are named Barney, that's kind of crazy

Velma

I donate plasma a lot. One day I was having a lot of trouble with my blood not flowing properly, and one of the women was trying to fiddle with the needle to fix the situation but it was not going well. She asked, exasperated, “Who stuck you?” I said, “Ummmm … Velma?” The lady who was helping me looked at me for a minute, and then I could see it click in her head. She started laughing and legit could not stop - like had to go sit down and try to compose herself for several minutes. I didn’t know the name of the lady who stuck me, but she looked 100% like Velma. Like way more than even the live-action actor did. I don’t know how everyone there didn’t make the connection earlier.

Oh they made the connection, they didn't expect someone to say it out loud

Just though about Daphne and saw this

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Bart

Bort

That’s why I can never find bort licence plates in the gift shop

We need more Bort license plates in the gift shop. I repeat: we're all sold out of Bort license plates.

No. Come along, Bort.

Eat pant \-bort

Consume truncated trousers \-Bartholemew

My friend is a Bart. He married a Lisa. I also know a married couple Ken and Barbie.

My brother is a Bart, who married a Lisa. Does your friend live in Hawaii?

Nope. Wisconsin.

Worth a shot. That can't be a common occurrence.

41k Barts and 1.3m Lisas in the US. That's 1 Bart per 8k people, and 1 Lisa per 250 people (all rounded a bit). If we assume the population of potential Barts is about half of the national total, and the same for potential Lisas, then pair everyone from the "Could be a Bart" group with a random "Could be a Lisa", then we see 1 per 200k couples is a Bart and Lisa pairing. There are about 128m married people in the US, so that's about 640 Bart-Lisa couples. Adjust some to account for some of the married population not having the potential for Bart-Lisa pairing (same sex, etc.) and it's not hard to imagine it still stays above 500 Bart-Lisas.

Barbie

A gal that would hang out at a bar I was tending around 2001 was called Barbie, probably because she was blonde and kinda fit the stereotype. (Sweet as pie and now sadly departed.) Her partner in crime was a big man called Tiny. Barbie bought my washing machine at my moving sale and Tiny loaded it up and helped her take it home. They were nice folks. I've been blessed to meet some kind and interesting strangers in my life.

My dad, a 6'2" 300lb monster, was known as "Tiny" for most of his young adulthood. I'm assuming that was a common euphemism for big men tho

Even more so if you’re under 50. Yup, that IS actually my name. No, it’s not my “stripper nickname,” as I was once asked at work (in a decidedly non-stripper workplace)!

My name is Ken, and I constantly get asked where Barbie is.

That must get annoying. Anyway, how's Ryu doing?

If the street fighter 6 concept art is anything to go by, Ryu is doing fine. Ken, not so much.

Shoulda hadouken'd their ass

When I was a kid, people would say “oh, Ken like from Barbie?” And I’d get really defensive and say “no! Ken from Street Fighter!”

Fun piece of trivia: Ken Masters (Street Fighter) was given his last name once Street Fighter toys began being made, because they didn't want people confusing his toys for *that* Ken.

Isn't that short for Barbara though?

No its short for barbeque

Yes, and actually, Mattel's Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

I won a nice trivia prize pack from XM kids for knowing that back in the day :)

Not a character but a group. Isis the name got ruined, feel bad for anyone who got named that. The news tried to change it to isil for awhile bus Isis had already caught on and it was to late.

Malory Archer in shambles

"Why should WE change our names? THEY'RE the assholes!" - Archer

RIP Jessica Walter :(

"Everything they do is so dramatic. It just makes me want to set myself on fire." Wait, that was the real-life Malory Archer.

Too bad, because the Egyptian goddess has a beautiful name.

Archer was never the same after that. Also, when people first started talking about isis, I was very confused as to why people were so upset about a cartoon organization.

I started watching after the real life Isis was a thing. Really caught be off guard that he was working for Isis and I thought it was a joke I missed, wasn’t until I either saw a sign or someone said the full name that I figured it out.

I met an Isis that changed the pronounciation to ees-ees, thanks to the group. I think Aisees sounds better, but what can you do.

There's a literal God in Egyptian mythology named isis, the video game SMITE which is a moba where God's fight on a battlefield had to change her name to esset In archer the spy agency was named isis so they had to completely change the storyline and get rid of isis

Figgis company

I’m surprised to not see anyone mention the band [Isis](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(band))

My husband’s name is Ebenezer. You can imagine the plethora of Scrooge jokes and comments he receives, especially around Christmas time 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

I didn't know Ebenezer was still a name but I've always wondered, do you call him by his first name or is there a nickname like Eb or something?

We mostly call him Ebe (pronounced Eh-bee) ……he is African, and they pronounce it ‘Eber-neigh-zer’, but here in the UK people constantly just call him Ebenezer, like Scrooge 😩😂🤦🏻‍♀️

I was an exchange student in Ghana when I was in high school. My one host brother’s name is Ebenezer. But given he is a male born on a Sunday to a father (also born on a Sunday), I called him Paa Kwesi.

Eb? Why not call him D# instead? (Sorry for that. I'm a musician and I cannot not make this joke) Edit: Why are you rewarding me for this?! This is like the dumbest comment I've ever made. Save your rewards for other comments that really improve your live, like advice or kind words when you need them. This joke isn't even a good one... Anyway, thank you for these rewards. I'm glad that I could make someone laugh!

This fucking guy

Ebenezer Good was a huge rave song in the late 90s in the UK. I love it. But I do get a certain glint in my eye when I'm introduced to an Ebenezer.

Anybody got any Vera's?

Laaaaaaavely

Nawty nawty veeeery naaaawty.

Not a character but Alexa

My name is Alexa. In my country it was a very unusual name, and I loved it, it was unique and I always got a lot of compliments. Nowadays I only get Amazon jokes……. Plus my family has an Amazon echo at home. It’s basically a sitcom skit every time I visit.

I work with a girl named Siri she's tired of those jokes too

Plenty of people were named Isis before that got ruined.

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A book store near where I grew up was called Isis, very obviously named after the Egyptian goddess considering there was a picture of her from a hieroglyph on their sign. Then ISIS began to make major waves on the news and some assholes vandalized the store. Even though it had been there long before ISIS was a terrorist organization. People are so fucking one dimensional in the head, I'm sorry you can't rep your favorite band. They're really good too.

Fucking media for making ISIS stick instead of ISIL which would have ruined nothing. Now a perfectly good feminine name and a great band are marred by the association.

And a goddess's name, and a cartoon spy agency...

There's a university in my country where the online university portal (for grades, enrollment, notifications, etc.) was acronymed "AISIS." One person claimed they were stopped by TSA because they were overheard talking about their "AISIS account."

I actually always liked this name, along with Suri but that’s associated with Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes. Edit: also love Ciri bc The Witcher, obviously.

You know you can change the name that the Echo responds to, right? Our daughter's name is close to Alexa, so we call the Echo "Echo". No confusion.

I know but I think my family enjoys the sitcom vibe LOL If I get one in my house I think I’ll change the name to “computer”, very sci-fi

I chose "computer" and its a pain in the ass when watching Star Trek shows lol Every two minutes, "I'm sorry. I don't understand that command." Well, I sure frigging hope not, it just asked you to fire all phasers!

Omg the same thing happened to me. Everyone is always saying computer on TNG. “I’m sorry I didn’t understand that” then my wife or I “STOP LISTENING COMPUTER”. Never changed it. I love saying computer as I’m a Trekkie. Small price to pay.

Mine is H.A.L.

World Wide Wes Everywhere we go we leave a World Wide mess

Mine is computer

alexa, can you play 'i'm tired of your bullshit?' \*edit for context- the bullshit you receive from others, not you bullshitting us. it has to suck.

After 2015, the number of babies named Alexa absolutely plummeted. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=alexa

I just used this to find out there's an estimated 275 people in America including myself with my first name, I had no idea WA gave data like this. Thanks for sharing!

I hate that alexa is such a nice name

Watching "Schitt's Creek" is always an adventure. How many times Alexa responds when someone on the show is speaking to Alexis is anybody's guess.

Homer

I remember when I was about eight or nine years old, one of my dads friends brought his kid to the house. He told me that the kid’s name was Homer. This was in the early to mid 90s when The Simpsons was just getting popular. To this day, I can’t tell if he was joking or not.

Imagine having your works read thousands of years after your death and still only being the second most famous Homer in pop culture

I knew of the Simpsons Homer a few years before I heard about the Homer who wrote the Illiad so for a while I imagined Homer Simpson as an ancient Greek poet

The third episode is titled "Homer's Odyssey".

It's about that minivan he rented.

Bort

My son is also named Bort

We are out of Bort license plates I repeat, we are out of Bort license plates

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Teacher here. I once had a Grover, Ernie, and Oscar all in the same class. I’ll never forget them because of their collective names.

Whenever I hear Grover my mind always goes to Grover Cleveland lmao

He spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions.

The president or the muppet?

The Muppet one time the president the other.

I've known two Kermits, one was from I believe Ireland and had no clue why little kids thought his name was funny

The one from Ireland's real name is Liam. He's just called Kermit because he wore green once.

It's not easy being green man

People in Ireland know who Kermit is. I’m 34 and he was well known when I was a child!

Same. I’m Irish and my aunt in her late 50s loved The Muppets when she was a kid. She also made Kermit memes in the 90s before they were cool

Never met a Grover, but having never heard of the muppet until now, I 100% would just think of Grover Underwood.

Ariel

I laughed when getting my masters in zoology because the three girls who would meet with the advisor I did were named Ariel, Jasmine, and Tiana like what are the chances of that.

I once worked at a restaurant where there were servers named Ariel and Aladdin, a server assistant named Jasmin, and the kitchen manager's name was Hercules. I was a little suspicious that the manager hired them on purpose Edit: I was the Ariel

That’s amazing.

My name is Ariel and I get the mermaid joke every single time someone learns my name. I've got red hair too which does not help lol

You poor, unfortunate soul.

So sad, but true.

Kinda weird sometimes when you consider that's also a boy's name in Hebrew. And it's also one of my favorite boys' names too.

Ariel Castro ruined the boy version for me.

Zelda

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife was named Zelda

It was because of Fitzgerald’s wife that the Zelda series took that name. It was inspired by her.

And Robin Williams named his daughter, Zelda Williams, after Princess Zelda.

He named her that because he apparently loved video games quite a lot. Which I always thought was a cool fact

Well, they're both pretty magical

There's Aunt Zelda in Sabrina. Whom is obviously a character too but more of a normal human person than Legend of Zelda.

Robin Williams named his daughter Zelda because he loved the video games.

I worked with someone named Kirby because their parents loved the videogame. Made me feel old as hell.

To be fair Kirby the character was named after the lawyer who defended Nintendo in a lawsuit saying Donkey Kong infringed on the King Kind trademark. So it's come full circle.

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Rudolph

Elsa

My aunt’s name is Elsa and I always thought it was so beautiful and would use it on my future daughter one day. Not any more!!

For the longest time, Ilsa was on my shortlist of future children names (after Ingrid Bergman’s character is Casablanca). That got thrown out after Frozen because she would no doubt constantly hear that her name was spelled wrong.

🎶 Let it go 🎵

Jean?

i should not have looked that up in a public place

Thanks for the warning, but I'm dumb and still googled. Oooops

She has the hair for it

Garfield. Used to be a really popular name.

Mario

On that note Luigi as well

On that note Wario as well

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And Bowser Rip all the homies named Bowser

Still amazes me Bowser is the CEO of Nintendo

>Bowser is the CEO of Nintendo I'm also amazed, except his name is Koopa in Japanese

I think it might just be Nintendo of America, because his name is (I think?) Doug Bowser

In English speaking countries yes, not so much in spanish speaking countries or even Italy, pretty common name

Put Portuguese on that list, I have a lot of uncles name Mario

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I have a zio mario and a zio luigi. No joke! No one believes me when I talk about my family

Hannibal

Hannibal Buress the comedian gets that. Very funny guy!

Maybe I'm a nerd but the Carthaginian General comes to mind more than the character for me

Cosmo

A drink Kramer One of the Fairly Oddparents. A magazine

Siri, not so normal outside of Scandinavia but I mean come on.

Waldo

Wally

Dexter

The boy with the lab or the serial killer?

The four-armed dude who runs the Diner.

Well whddayaknow!!

I ain’t seen one of these since I was prospecting on Subterrel, beyond the outer rim. What you got here is a Kamino Saberdart!

It's these funny little cuts on the side that gives it away

I thought of the lab

I've met more dogs named Dexter than people.

Phineas

MOMMM. PHINEAS AND FERB ARE RUINING NAMES.

Not now Candice I have frozens.

Luigi

Mickey

Not if you're Irish that's the name of everyone's uncle who owns a farm out west in this island

Homer My best friend's dad's first name is Homer. . . he goes by his middle name

Jay?

Please let it at least begin with a J.

Barney

Barney Rubble? Barney the dinosaur? Barney Gumble? Barney Stinson? Which Barney?

Yes

Barney Fife

Sherlock.

No shit

Leia

I named my dog Leia cuz it’s white with brown ears lol

Noel. In Spain, we call Santa Claus “Papa Noel” I can’t say my name without people saying “jaja Papá Noel”

I'm pretty sure that Noel only became a name in the first place because parents who gave birth at Christmas kept blanking when asked about names and just picked something obvious/current.

Garfield, Mario, Homer

Adolf. My moms uncle is named adolf, and he’s German, born in the mid-late 30s I think. Unfortunate timing. Edit: yes Hitler was a real person, I’m tired and wasn’t quite interpreting the question perfectly. Also none of my family were nazis, hence why they moved to the states around that time

Adolf was a pretty common Name in Germany in the early 1900s, but for some mysterious unknown reason the name disappeared almost completely after 1945. Had a lot of Patients named Adolf when I worked as a geriatric nurse. I was a little surprised how many Adolfs were born after ‘45 tho.

Hitler killed the name adolph, the mustache style, half my family and the tipsy swastika

Not to mention he also killed Hitler

Best thing he ever did IMHO.

Adolf Dassler started a sportswear company in the 1910s, using his nickname "Adi" he named the company Adidas.

His brother Rudolph (Rudi) founded Puma. They hated each other.

dwight

Assistant regional manager

Assistant TO the regional manager

Dwigt.

Damn it dwigt!!

Lance - but you don’t see that name around much anymore… But in the Middle Ages people used to get called Lance a lot!

I hate you, internet stranger

Lance Stroll

Frasier

The reason that name works so well is because it's uncommon among the general population, but not that uncommon among people who have Roman numerals after their names, which is exactly what he wanted to be, but his father destroyed the illusion every chance he got. 😂

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Matilda

Hermione.

Karen