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21 people who have had their names ruined by pop culture

Certain names enter the collective consciousness with a very strong connection to a particular thing, so if your name is Monica, you might find idiots asking you where Phoebe and Rachel are, for example, and if you’re called Nigel, then everybody wants to know if someone’s making plans for you, or whether you plan to build a wall on the south coast of England.

Writer Jesse McLaren asked Twitter this:

Probably because of his own brush with pop culture.

It turns out that a lot of people have had their names “ruined” by pop culture, and these were our favourites.

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