Name Article

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

From CNN.com

www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/05/26/naming.names.importance/index.html

There are links to other naming articles throughout the report.

Comments

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I personally put that much weight behind a name, but it was definitely an interesting read. Thanks for the link.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

That's a really nice article, thanks for sharing!

Professors reported children with "black-sounding" names such as Lakisha and Jamal are 50 percent less likely to receive a call back for a job interview compared to "white-sounding" names such as Emily or Greg.

Call me naive, but I'd think that job interviewers would place more weight on a person's resume than on their name.

Having said that, I'd also much rather be called Lakisha than a horribly messed up "creative" name such as Madysynne!
I understand that parents want to be creative - I'd want that too. But misspelling isn't that creative, in my opinion.

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

As someone called Georgia, I cannot imagine anything LESS fun than moving to Georgia. My HS friends from church, Virginia and Dakota, would agree. I have no idea why anyone would willingly move to a place with the same name as them. Visiting there ONCE was enough.