takes a lot of confidence to look at a newborn baby and go oh yeah that’s a Gary
Gary is an odd name. It was completely unknown before 1929, when Gary Cooper starred in his first talkie, The Virginian. And Cooper, born Frank James Cooper, took his stage name from the city of Gary, Indiana. So it’s as if someone said, “Hey, I think I’ll change my name to Albuquerque” and people just said “okay, that’s a normal name now,” and named their kids after him for 40 years.