I read an interesting study:
Girls with boyish names are more likely to study physics or math, and the more feminine a girls name, the more likely she was to study humanities (among an all high-achieving cohort). A disproportionate number of Lawyers are named [name]Laura[/name]. A disproportionate number of Dentists are named [name]Dennis[/name]. People have affinity for other names, places and yes, even jobs that contain sounds from their own name. Unusual spelling of known names creates negative perception among teachers who tended to grade kids lower for the same work if they had unusual spelling of the name (and adding apostrophes made it worse). This also held true for any unusual name (but to a lesser degree). Employers discriminate based on names as well. A Turkish economist with and unusual name couldn’t get a job in New [name]York[/name]. She changed her first name to [name]Suzie[/name] (of all things!) and landed a job immediately. People with unusual names are also more likely to have psychoses!! So better [name]Kennedy[/name] for a girl than Krystee or Kavia. My dual-citizen kids meanwhile, have unusual non-American names. I wouldn’t change a thing.
Hmm, that’s all very interesting! What study is this? Is there somewhere I could read it?
Yeah, can we please have the link to the study? Is it on a website?
[name]How[/name] interesting!
I found a similar article that has information similar to this. It’s not the exact same study as afoonah’s, but it goes along with it.