The Macaulay Culkin of the 1970's

[Scott]

I keep watching old shows from the '70's and I kept seeing a child actor who looks really familiar but I can never place him. Each time I google the episode and find his name and each time it turns out to be Radames Pera. He looks familiar because he played tweenage Kwai Chang Caine on Kung Fu, but I never recognize him without his head shaved.

I guess he was really big back then.

According to the internet, "Radames is a boy's name is pronounced RAH-da-mays. It is of Egyptian origin. The name given the Egyptian hero of Verdi's opera." It reached its height in popularity in 1977 when seventeen out of every million babies born in the United States were named Radames. Now it's two per million.

[Scott]

And, in case you were wondering, there were just under four million babies born in the US in 2015, so about eight of them were named Radames. And it wasn't necessarily the name they use. It could be their middle name, or it could be their first name and they go by their middle name like I do.

So, in ten years, there were probably around 80 Radameses born in the United States, 1.6 per state although the population isn't evenly distributed. 

But be prepared. It's pronounced "RAH-da-mays". It would probably be nice for them to run into someone who knows how to pronounce their name.