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HANNIBAL
Gender: M
Origin: Punic and Assyrian
Meaning: "grace of Baal, god of fertility and fortune"
These days, it's thought of less as the name of the great general and more as the first name of Lecter the fictional cannibal. Either association is too heavy for a child to bear.
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