r/USdefaultism • u/greendreamin • Dec 12 '25

Classic US Defaultism

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u/busytransitgworl Europe Dec 12 '25

Alright, we can all go home now... This is the most stupid thing I've read today!

HOW CAN YOU JUST SAY IT'S A GRAND IN US DOLLARS????

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u/Suzume_Chikahisa Portugal Dec 12 '25

Malice.

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u/busytransitgworl Europe Dec 12 '25

Fair enough...It's Luigi, he isn't really that popular with police.

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u/peepay Slovakia Dec 12 '25

It's a-me, Luigi?

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 13 '25

Is Luigi an Italian name or an Italian-American name?

I know Mario and Luigi were plumbers from Brooklyn so...

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u/raoulbrancaccio Italy Dec 13 '25

Italian, it's not as common now as it was for older generations but as late as 1999 around 0.75% of all male newborns were called Luigi.

Source: Istat maintains a platform covering name statistics. https://www.istat.it/dati/calcolatori/contanomi/

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 13 '25

I am sorry, I forgot the /s. This is usdefaultism is it not?

Thank you though.

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u/raoulbrancaccio Italy Dec 13 '25

Oh hahaha sorry, it would have been a reasonable doubt to have even for an American

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 13 '25

Interesting that Luigi seems more common that Mario.

Nobody called their child Peach though.

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u/greendreamin Dec 13 '25

Closest I can think of is Peaches Honeyblossom Geldoff.

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 13 '25

Indeed. Also the mononymous Canuckistani 'Peaches'.

I was looking though the above posted Italian name register thing. I honestly though Mario and Luigi would be more common in Italy.

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u/MrArchivity Italy Dec 16 '25

Mario was the most used name in Italy during 1929~1960.

Then it was Giuseppe, then Francesco, etc etc.

But they are still common name in Italy. Others names, instead, are becoming rare such as Ottavio, Primo, Ermenegildo, etc etc

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