Donald isn’t a popular name in Scotland – some blame Donald Trump
About 20 Scottish Donalds were christened each year from 2000 to 2015. After that, the name suddenly plummeted in popularity
Only seven boys born in Scotland were named Donald last year, the fewest on record and a likely slap at America’s new president despite his Scottish roots, birth records out this month show.
Babies named Donald were down two-thirds since 2014, according to the National Records of Scotland.
While the trend reflects a decreasing preference for traditional names, “Trump has accelerated the decline,” Carole Hough, an expert on the history and origin of names at the University of Glasgow, told The Scotsman newspaper.
Trump helped “suppress” a name already out of fashion, agreed Cleveland Evans of Bellevue University in Nebraska and author of The Great Big Book of Baby Names.
About 20 Scottish Donalds were christened each year from 2000 to 2015. After that, the name suddenly plummeted in popularity, the data shows. In 2016, Donald ranked 442nd, along with Che, Eden and Lomond.
