Advice to expectant fathers #5: cruel baby names
It’s important to choose a good name for your child. A 1954 study of a New Jersey mental hospital showed that boys with unusual names, such as Atilla, have a higher incidence of mental problems. Or maybe, that any parents who would name their child Atilla pass on a higher incidence of mental problems.
In a 1991 survey, Albert Mehrabian asked two thousand people to rate names according to various characteristics. For example, the name Bunny scored high on femininity, but uh, low on morality. For boys, the names Grover and Aldo didn’t do too well at all. For girls, the names Ann and Holly scored high in all categories. And everybody liked the name Hans.
Based partly on The Expectant Father by Armin A. Brott


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