Case Closed

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I think I heard that they did change his name in the subs, something to do with the name already established for someone else in the USA... Still fucked up even if it was the Japanese license holders idea (In fact that almost makes it worse).

The name that is copyrighted in the US is 'Conan' because of Conan the Barbarian or something like that. They couldn't use that name and so they had to rename the show. The americanizing of names like Jimmy, Rachel, or Amy, was the Japanese licensors idea.