<p>You’re remembering it correctly. The chapter on names in Freakonomics is pretty interesting. It’s amazing what some people name their kids just to have something that sounds different (and some of the spellings can be rather creative, too).</p>
<p>I read that too, Student615. I think he concluded that names often used by lower socioeconomic groups did correlate with lower earnings, but the biggest effect was probably that these individuals came from those groups with other attendant issues related to education, etc.</p>
<p>when i named my Ds I was careful- our last name is long- so we wanted shorter first names, and I don’t like the “ie” or “ey” or nicknames, so their names can’t really be abbriveated</p>
<p>I also made sure their initials didn’t spell something </p>
<p>And I made sure they were prounceble, easy to spell (well some people get them wrong, but not very often), and can easily fit on forms </p>
<p>Some of the names from Ireland are lovely, but some of the spellings and pronounciations could have be problematic</p>
<p>Oldest likes her name, youngest is going through a phase where she isn’t so sure, but that too shall pass</p>
<p>My H has the worlds most boring male name- and it is amazing how many slang definitions it fits</p>
<p>Nonsense. The C’s and B’s at our high school got 2400, perfect GPAs, got into every top schools(HYPS) they applied to.</p>
<p>My initials are D.C. and my high school transcript is full of A’s (except for that one B, an 89, I got in 8th grade HS-level bio T_T).</p>
<p>My initials are K.H. and my transcript has lots of As and Bs and 4 Cs. (Everytime I look at my transcript those stupid Cs just kill me.)</p>
<p>I’d like to see the statistical analysis that backs this statement…</p>
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<p>Pomona is a real name - an ancient Roman name –> the goddess of fruit. “Pomegranate” and “pomme,” the French word for apple, both derive from Pomona.</p>
<p>S, who’s name starts with an A, didn’t get that memo. </p>
<p>His sister, who’s name starts with a J, apparently got all of S’s “A’s” instead. </p>
<p>LOL-mstee! Hopefully you’ve located an article or two about the birth order thing to share with your doubting child. Too funny.</p>
<p>My kids took my last name over H’s. We are a wildly radical, iconoclastic family, but this is the only thing that seems to bend people, particularly my college students, out of shape. They did, however, go from K to B (though they started with B because they had a hyphenated last name.) When they got tired of it, they just dropped his, not mine. </p>
<p>I say, matriliny in action! Told you I was an iconoclast.</p>
<p>Might I suggest that you marry someone with the initial carved into whatever family silver exists. This worked wonders for me. Took a lot of dating around and false starts. But I inherited the only set of silver in the family because my husband’s last name’s first initial is engraved on a 12 place setting of sterling in our family. The 70s were pretty bad for weddings…no one “registered” for anything, and everything I picked out was brown and earthy. Silver was sky high and no one bothered.</p>
<p>I suffered (?) from end-of-the-alphabetitis growing up when teachers assigned seats alphabetically. The science dept decided to remedy this by going backwards up the alphabet for sophomore year (after an alphabetical freshmen assignment)- I got the worst citizenship grades ever! When you’re used to the privacy away from the front… Still got the top grades, otherwise. I wonder what it would be like to sit in the middle of things, not have to wait forever for your name… I got to graduate near the first since they did honor society, then the rest. Never hyphenated son’s name- 20 letters plus a hyphen is ridiculous… (around here there are some names that are 16 letters, can you imagine a 32 letter name- plus the hyphen?) If hubby’s had been 4 letters or near the beginning of the alphabet I probably would have changed mine. Remember, it’s “Sue, (comma) the doctor”, not “Sue the doctor” for some women.</p>
<p>lol. Dick Cheney, george Bush, Dan quayle, Britney spears…</p>
<p>My name does start with an “A”…</p>
<p>My D’s name starts with A, but A’s were rare in her HS transcript.</p>
<p>My initials (before marriage) made up a chemical element symbol. I was destined to be a chemist! 
My hubby’s initials make up another element’s symbol, and taken together, we are a compound! I guess it was a sign! ;)</p>
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Correlation: A statistical relationship between two variables such that high scores on one factor tend to go with high scores on the other factor (positive correlation) or that high scores on one factor go with low scores on the other factor (negative correlation).</p>
<p>The name thing is completely false. The people who wear glasses or contacts are usually the ones with the excellent GPAs. Just an observation.</p>
<p>Sheesh, this is ridiculous! People are now gonna be phoning deans and asking them ‘Should I name my son Alex or Andy?’</p>
<p>I was named for a Doctor Cornell … the name of our home’s architectural plan is a “Cornell”, and my first born child is attending <em>Cornell</em>!!</p>