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    Bye Bye, Karen

    Aug 28, 2020 3 minutes
    BY PAMELA REDMOND
    @prsatran

    THERE ARE 1,107,736 PEOPLE NAMED KAREN IN the United States right now, and there are probably never going to be 1,107,737.

    The reason: Karen has now joined that battery of names so closely identified with negative traits or reprehensible individuals that they’re taken off the table as baby names by well-meaning parents everywhere.

    As far off the table as Adolf?

    Unlike Adolf, the name Karen is not associated with a heinous person who masterminded the murder of 11 million people and started an international war. Nor is Karen a pointed in 1983.

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