Some names have become so strongly associated with one person that you may wish to avoid choosing them so that people don't think of that other person when they think of you.
Below, () indicates a part of the name that is not infamous by itself; where () is not used, then both the first and last names are infamous enough to be recognized as referring to the person.
- Adolf Hitler
- Vlad Dracula {Vlad_III_the_Impaler}
- (Ted) Bundy {USA serial killer}
- (Robert) Pickton {Canadian serial killer}
- (Charles) Manson {USA serial killer}
- (Richard Milhous) Nixon {USA president}
- (Henry) Kissinger {USA Secretary of State}
- (George) Bush {USA presidents}
- (Dan) Quayle {USA vice president}
- "Pol Pot" {Cambodian leader}
- Mao (Zedong) {Chinese leader}
- (Grigori) Rasputin {Russian "mystic"}
- (Joseph) Stalin {USSR leader}
- (Vladimir) Lenin {USSR leader}
- (Benito) Mussolini {Italian leader}
- Heinrich Himmler {German SS commander}
- Allah; Jehovah; Christ; God
- Jesus {but common for Hispanics}
- Mohammad {unless Muslim}
- Singh {unless Sikh}
- Napoleon Bonaparte {French leader}
- (Maximilien) Robespierre {French leader}