I dunno, the people having babies now weren’t alive then to cheer on McCarthyism… I mean, I get your point and it’s a good one! Just thinking about names, though, sometimes they really don’t mean the same thing to newer generations…they have new and different associations.
A friend my age (which is 66 now—it was probably 20 years ago that we had this conversation) told me about a younger relative of his who had named their baby August, and had announced that people should call him “Augie”. I said—somewhat incredulously, with a slight grimace—“You mean, like Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy?” (a TV cartoon when we were kids). That was the only Augie I’d ever heard of. He laughed and said “Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought, but don’t say anything. They don’t know.”
Some other young people I knew named their daughter Lux—which to me and probably many people my age will always bring to mind the dishwashing liquid of that name. 
Needless to say, I would never have chosen that name, but presumably it carried no such association for the younger couple.
Anyway, I’ve headed off topic… And yes, you did make a good point!
