List of historical common names
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This is an incomplete list of historical common names. Names may have been changed because they were considered pejorative.
Places
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=Istanbul=
- Constantinople
=Ho Chi Minh City=
- Saigon - pre-1976
=Mumbai=
Diseases and disabilities
=Down syndrome=
- Mongolism
=Physically disabled=
- Crippled
- Handicapped
=Tuberculosis=
- Consumption - until 2000s
- Tuberculosis
Peoples
=Of African descent=
- Nigger
- Negro
- Coloured
- Black - still in use
- African-American - in the United States
=Indigenous peoples of North America=
- Indian - pre-1960s
- Native American - since 1960s
- Indigenous - 1980s
- First Nations
=Romani people=
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Organizations
=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints=
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- Church of Christ - 1830 to 1834
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - 1834 onward