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Can you though? I actually like this name but I couldn't use it, not with all the memes. I think it is salvageable but not in the near future. Ari. described the meme as a "middle aged cat lady" which makes it sound innocuous but it really isn't. To be called a "Grażyna of -something- (usually business but not always)" can be a good-hearted quip between friends but it works as such in this context as a subversion of the usual unfavourable connotations of the meme.

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Meeting older people named this is fine but having grown up hearing all the Grażyna jokes, I can't imagine giving the name to a child and not having the memes in the back of your mind every time you look at your kid. It'd be exhausting and I think the (even unconscious) bias could lead to less than optimal parenting techniques (like, because qualities such as greedy and scheming are now attached to the name the parents may unconsciously expect and reinforce behaviours that are in line with these stereotypes, which is a thing that happens when parents have strong associations with a name).

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I hope it comes back eventually, it's a lovely name but as a parent I'd find it difficult to untangle it from its current social context.