Charles Ellicott Commentary Deuteronomy 12:3

"and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place." — Deuteronomy 12:3 (ASV)

Destroy the names. —The substitution in later times of bosheth for baal in the names Jerubbaal (Jerubbesheth), Eshbaal (Ishbosheth), Meribbaal (Mephibosheth), is a curious example of the literal fulfillment of this command, or, perhaps, rather of the command in Exodus 23:13, of which the spirit and purport agree with this.