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You probably are right in thinking you are starting to worry too much about names that may have an ever more obscure association. Nor would that association be the same for everyone as pointed out. My association with Jeffery is my cousin, a lovely man, my go to for Dick is Richard Winter, a WWII hero, and Donald is a duck, and always will be. It's also true that some create and hold association others either have no idea or no care about, I am constantly seeing people shoot down names because for them personally it reminds them of a scary cartoon, a weird song, or a local celeb. With the possible exception of Adolf, I'd suggest no name is irritrevible. The more these names are used imo the more difuse are bad associations. Everyone will always have their list of bad names, but it will never be universal, it's far too subjective.