{"id":14971,"date":"2020-10-15T13:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14971"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:08:08","slug":"baby-naming-issue-is-the-name-kipling-out-of-the-running-because-of-rudyard-kiplings-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/10\/15\/baby-naming-issue-is-the-name-kipling-out-of-the-running-because-of-rudyard-kiplings-white-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Is the Name Kipling Out of the Running Because of Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s White Supremacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We are trying to come up with a boys name for our fourth boy and we like surnames for first names. Is the name Kipling (nickname Kip) out due to Rudyard Kiplings white supremacy even if we clarify we aren\u2019t naming our son after him? Please advise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know not everyone can use the Twitter polls, but I think that&#8217;s a good way to cast a wide net for this sort of question&#8212;and those who can&#8217;t vote can leave comments saying what they WOULD have voted. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Swistle\/status\/1316801066911047681\">Link to the Twitter poll<\/a>. [Poll closed; see results below:]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Swistle\/status\/1316801066911047681\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-16-at-4.04.39-PM.png\" alt=\"poll showing 24.7% yes, 58.8% no, and 16.5% just see results\" width=\"588\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-16-at-4.04.39-PM.png 588w, https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-16-at-4.04.39-PM-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-16-at-4.04.39-PM-150x96.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For my vote (Twitter won&#8217;t let me vote in my own poll), I will say that although the name Rudyard Kipling is familiar, I am not familiar with his work or reputation&#8212;so if I&#8217;d met a kid named Kipling\/Kip, I&#8217;d think it was adorable and not make any association with white supremacy. (But now that I know, I don&#8217;t think I can un-know.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are trying to come up with a boys name for our fourth boy and we like surnames for first names. Is the name Kipling (nickname Kip) out due to Rudyard Kiplings white supremacy even if we clarify we aren\u2019t naming our son after him? Please advise. &nbsp; I know not everyone can use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Tt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14971"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14985,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions\/14985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}