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Yes, that’s literally what wikipedia says:
Madison is also used as a given name. It has become popular for girls in recent decades. Its rise is generally attributed to the 1984 release of the film Splash
Imogen is from a Shakespeare play, but it’s actually supposed to be Innogen but the first prints had a printing mistake and the name Imogen came into existence and the script with the error was reprinted for centuries. So everyone who is named Imogen is named after a typo.
James Madison was the 4th president of the United States. Just saying.
Did his mom see this movie?
Apparently… Since Madison wasn’t a name before Splash in 1984.
Madison wasn’t a given name before the movie
Tiffany was similarly not used as a first name until Tiffany & Co, and particularly Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the 1958 novel/1961 movie.
The “Tiffany” from Tiffany & Co was a last name, and that owner was one of a handful of Tiffany’s in the world at the time of the founding.
This is actually a myth. Tiffany as a name dates back before Shakespeare. The more you look into Tiffany as a name, thinking it’s modern, the more you’ll find it just fell out of favor for a while.
It’s called “The Tiffany Problem”. You might want to use the historically accurate name Tiffany for a character in your 16th century historical fiction novel, but you can’t because it sounds like someone who was born in 1982.
CGP Grey did research on the name Tiffany: https://youtu.be/9LMr5XTgeyI (8 min long video)
Obligatory !cgpgrey@toast.ooo mention!
Edit: damn it, has the toast instance gone toast?
The name “Kayleigh” was invented by Marillion in 1985
Keighleigh
Fun fact: When Disney put that movie up on Disney+ they had to make a bunch of changes involving CGI hair because it turns out with modern picture quality you can see a quite a lot more of Daryl Hannah than they originally intended.
Less fun fact: When Disney put that movie up on Disney+ they for no justifiable reason started splicing and cutting the original version to add CGI to censor things out of the movie for “modern sensibilities” and then sold it as the same product without any warning.
I am much less afraid of the authoritarian who would ban 1984 from being read, and much more afraid of those authoritarians who take it to heart and take out all the “controversial” things and leave a completely declared and neutered 1984+ on the shelf.
James Madison and the presumed Madison family would beg to differ.
Was James Madison a Japanese woman? If not, your example doesn’t apply. We’re not talking about surnames or men’s names here.
