Well yes, for me in California and much of the non-English speaking world, before this "issue" was brought up had no idea what "gimp" was. If anything, the pro-change side has done nothing except raise the awareness of the offensive term and we will likely see an increase in attacks using that term due to it.

I can't imagine changing the innocent name of my project because it happened to be a homophone of a mean word in some other language.