In ancient times, the word "Chinese Disease" meant illness and unluckyness just as it does now. Therefore, in ancient times, few people had the name "disease". The characters I can learn about include Huo Qubing, Liu Bingji and Xin Qiji. Although the names of the first two people both contain the word "disease", the overall meaning of their names is that they have recovered from their illness. And "abandoning disease" means not to run too fast, which means that you hope your children will be safe.
For example, Liu Bingji, his name comes from the fact that he has been ill since he was a child, but he has recovered. Huo Qubing and Liu Bing are similar, and their names do not symbolize unluckyness. Instead, they use negative forms to allow their names to contain opposite meanings. It can be seen from this that in ancient times, when naming children, they would not add the word "sickness" alone, but use a negative form to allow their children to discard those unlucky things.
There is also a saying that disease represents "transcendence". Their characteristic is that the nickname starts with the word "disease", and another person's name is added after it. Like Bing Yuchi and Sun Li, Bing Guansuo and Yang Xiong are two characters in Water Margin. Do their names symbolize sick rice plants, which is unlucky? We can see from his names that Guan Suo is the son of Guan Yu, and Yuchi is Yuchi Gong. So their nicknames represent something beyond the person they're named after.
Although the word "disease" was also unlucky in ancient times, ancient people could use unique methods to make the meaning of the name have a special charm. They are not worried that their children will bring unlucky things.