What do we think of Donald?

[Cissyandflora]

I ask because I know a miserable Donald who blames his name for a sorry old life. Obviously there will be lovely Donalds about but is it going to make a comeback along with the other older style names. I don’t like the sound of the name although McDonald as a surname sounds fine to me. I had a Ronald in my class at school and always felt sorry for him and for Donald. Is it still used in Scotland?

Are you Scottish?

I'm sorry but I just think of song every time I hear the name Donald!

Say Donald, think Duck or Trump. No, no, no, no, no!

My fil is a Donald. Comes from a long line of Donalds. They picked a different name for dh!

Donald Glover?

@Gingerkittykat

Are you Scottish?

I'm sorry but I just think of song every time I hear the name Donald!

Hahaha Stuart Anderson if I remember rightly he must be about 40, wonder what he thinks of those videos now? I bet he wishes they'd disappear off the face of the earth!

Ha that video made me laugh. Maybe it’s a name that can’t be cool. Not even Donnie.

I think Donald would be ok even with all those associations except for Donald Trump. He’s ruined it for me. Now it just makes me think of The Donald.

I actually really like it, Douglas is better though.

However, Trump means I'd look at anyone who used the name in a very different light.

No, sorry. The associations are Donald Duck and Donald Trump.

I quite like it

Awful name sorry op

I am Scottish. I know of only one child named Donald and he is in his teens and calls himself Don now.

TBH when I hear Donald I think Trump or Duck.

Donnie is even worse!

No no no no no. He will be likened to Donald Trump and Donald Duck!
I do have a lovely friend called Donald but he's almost 60 and has always (I've known him 35yrs) been known as Donovan as he hates his real name (more so even now with Trump!).

....and known as Donnie

I like it.

See I like it, and I think it's a perfectly lovely and longstanding name.

But...Donald Trump has ruined it for a bit.

In my part of Scotland this is still a very popular name. I know about a dozen kids under 18 with this name. Perhaps if you live somewhere that it isn't a popular name then the duck or Trump are your only reference points.

@lovablequalities

In my part of Scotland this is still a very popular name. I know about a dozen kids under 18 with this name. Perhaps if you live somewhere that it isn't a popular name then the duck or Trump are your only reference points.

Yes I think that’s it. My Donald was definitely the only one in school with the name and no one else we know is named Donald. He also wasn’t allowed to shorten it. Strict parents. So since adulthood he has been Don but he detests his name. And I’ve never warmed to it. I really don’t like Ronnie either. That seems to be popular along with Reggie. I think the sound of the names are unpleasant. Our Donald is an angry man and I often wonder if he would have been nicer if he hadn’t had a name he detested.

@lovablequalities

In my part of Scotland this is still a very popular name. I know about a dozen kids under 18 with this name. Perhaps if you live somewhere that it isn't a popular name then the duck or Trump are your only reference points.

Roughly where abouts are you? I'm in the central belt, the youngest Donald I've ever come across would have been born mid 70s. The rest are all much older.

Donald ruined for a generation. Ronald was ruined by Reagan, but not as badly as Donald by Trump, and Ronald was already unfashionable in the 70s.

I'm amazed to see Ronnie, Reggie and Frankie featuring in the top 100 boys' names in E&W. The Kray Brothers assocation would put me right off.

Don is a Turkish word for underpants. 😂

Awful name now for obvious reasons. Probably as popular as Nigel and Boris now.

Aw, this thread made me google my old uni friend. He has websites and videos on YouTube and everything - he's apparently one of the UK's leading circus performer people. The videos made me smile, so that's one good thing from this thread.

Donald Duck