What names should you not name a Catholic boy?

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Even some shirt tail relatives of Hilter changed their surnane to avoid the obvious association.
 
I’ve never even heard of the movie Omen until this thread. So, I think Damian is a safe name. I’m considering it for one of my sons.
 
Believe it or not, but in a store an assistant was named Demon, unless my memory fails me.

It may not be pronounced like that, but that’s a nono in my book
 
Are you sure it wasn’t Damon?

The Damian/Damian/Damon thing reminds me of something I read decades ago in a book written by an investigative journalist (who’s kind of famous -if you guess who you get a cookie) who started writing books on Apparitions and other kinds of sensationalistic stuff. He railed about the movies Damian and The Omen and asserted that the name Damien came from the word demon. I consider onomastics a hobby and knew that was full of hooey and stopped reading. I lost all respect for that writer and back shelf-ed his books. I figured out the kind of reader he catered to and they are the kind who eat up tabloids but his books were a “holier” option.
 
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I distinctly remember it being demon as I was really weirded out by it.

Am I distinctly remembering incorrectly? Perhaps
 
Bruised_Reed said:
He railed about the movies Damian and The Omen and asserted that the name Damien came from the word demon.
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What claim, exactly, was that writer making about the name Damian? He may perhaps be mixing up two different things. On the one hand, it’s an old well-established name – think of Saints Cosmas and Damian, twin brothers who were martyred in or around the year 287 (link below). On the other, the producers of The Omen and David Seltzer, who wrote the screenplay, obviously chose the name Damian because it echoes the word “demon,” producing the desired mental association in people who watch the movie. But I don’t think it’s right for Catholic parents to let themselves be bullied by Hollywood like that, to the point of deciding that Damian is no longer an acceptable baptismal name just because of a movie.

 
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What claim, exactly, was that writer making about the name Damian?
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I don’t know tbh since I’m not in the writer’s head but is seemed like he was saying demons were everywhere. In the photo section of the book the was an image of a nuclear explosion and it you turn the picture sideways it looked like there was a face of a demon in the cloud.
 
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Here are some: Chief Poppycock, Nothing but Trouble, Thorn in my Side, You Idiot, You Fool, Get Out of Here, Stupid, Useless, Shut Up!, I’m Too Tired … not good names for a Catholic boy…
 
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