According to data from ourbabynamer.com, Hannibal used to be a fairly popular name until something happened in the mid 1980s followed something that nailed it in 1991.
That would be these two popular movies with horrible people named Hannibal.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091474/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/
Update: Thanks to alert reader Dad Lansey, the silence of the lambs book appeared in 1988
Wonder if this is related http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive ... ?
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