Posted by Eugene Volokh: Osama: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_12_14-2008_12_20.shtml#1229630510
A commenter on the Adolf Hitler Campbell birthday cake thread asked: "What if the kid's name were Osama?" Of course, I take it that the question was likely to ask, "What if the kid's name were Osama Bin Laden Campbell?" But taking the questioner at face value, I [1]looked it up, and found that Whitepages.com reports 1342 Osamas in the U.S., 19 of the Osama Ahmeds, just a bit fewer than the 1535 Adolfs, though many more than the 14 Hitlers (as a first name, mind you) and the 219 Stalins -- Osama has apparently long been a pretty normal Arabic name. A cool [2]search feature, incidentally, though I don't know how reliable it is. References 1. http://names.whitepages.com/first/Osama 2. http://names.whitepages.com/ _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
