#1 Names Thread: Baby Naming: NOT a place to depart from convention

[Alex Linder]

Originally Posted by Steven L. Akins

First names of the top ten most successful American men in 2012:

1). Bill

2). Warren

3). Larry

4). Charles

5). David

6). George

7). Sheldon

9). Jim

10). Sam

Except for Sheldon, the rest of the names sound pretty much like your typical blue-collar, working-class names like guys you would find at a bar or bowling-alley after work.

Most of these names go up and down the social scale, which is what you're looking for. Your child can be anything from an ordinary man to a great king, and the name will fit him equally comfortably.

What are to be avoided are the trendy white-trash names that appear and disappear. Or, better put, appear like viruses, and mutate into a thousand misspelled forms. You don't want a firework name. You want a name that is solid, permanent, classic, respected, known.

Trust your material. If Li'l Balljuice has anything from the ball, he'll have something on the ball, and he won't need your stupid, subartistic attempt to moniker him to the moon.

You can't "make" your kid with the name you give it, but you can handicap it socially. The intelligent people, who manage society, will take your crappy downscale flash name as indicating a genetically based streak of unreliability. They will think you, your name, will make them look bad, and just maybe your genetic familial weakness will emerge in a pinch to scotch things.

If you think I'm joking...I'm not. This is how people who run things actually think, and there's good reason for it.