After Bill Gates :) this name was proofed for success

NO NO NO you can name your child anyhing u want and the child will become rich only if he/she choose the right path.i think people always want to make excuses for why everyone's not rich. not to make anyone mad * people say that only white people are rich* wrong! you have rich blacks

i find the research to be quite amazing i've also seen one on the book Blink that mentions the same fact

I personally like unusual names myself. Because unusual is something people usually don't name their child, and it means you are more unique. : ) I dun no, I'm just weird like that, but if I had to hire someone, I'd like someone with an unusual name compared to a normal one. But really, names shouldn't matter. I just like different ones.

i totally agree with kiki that everyone can be successful whatever their names are, just if they choose the right path. though I'm not sure I think rich means successful, but anway. why I think it's bad is cuz school, especially high school, is probably the hardest and most humiliating time of our lives, and with a strange name, it'll only make it worse. i wouldn't want that for my kid.

Like myself :( but seriously I think that a name could influence the way people see you you, for good and bad, but this is only part of the packae : look, personality and attitude to the world. To all the parents out there . Good luck !

I think that white people tend to have more advantages, and so they tend to be more successful, and so anglo-saxon names tend to have greater success. I doubt that there is a direct connection. However, a person with a very unusual name like "Racecar Williams" might make it hard for people to take him seriously.

My beau and I were just on this subject, contemplating whether or not a persons name, or more precisely, the meaning behind their name, can be directly linked to one's place or success in life. Although we are no where near expecting, I find it fascinating to learn the meanings attached to names. (Which is why I'm on sites like this one.) We concur that a strong, positive and mildly unique name are all key building blocks to the foundation of a human beings self worth and the way in which the world views them.

i named my son rizzario christian devahn n i personally think that he has a great athletic name. i know one day that he will play pro football and maybe it will be due to his name or maybe just due to his natural skill that he does have. he is only one and can throw a football half way across a room.

I think that you should name your child whatever you want as long as it would suit them for not just their childhood but also their adulthood and beyond. I mean you would probably laugh at a eighty year old woman being called 'mercades' would'nt you? Having a cool sounding name might make people remember you better, but naming a child just for the sake of hoping that they achieve fortune and fame is WRONG.

Like it or not, your success will be helped or hindered by those who have the ability to influence it. We do not exist in a vacuum of individuality but as individuals in a community environment where we are subject to the conscious and unconscious biases of those around us. If a child grows up to be his own employer then he has no issues. If a child grows up and attempts to break into a field where he will be employed, at least at the start, by someone else, then the biases of those others will play a role on the person's path to success. In this endeavor, everything counts. There are many challenges and roadblocks inherent in the process - why add to them with something so first-impression influencing like a name that may cause a disadvantage on a resume or phone message because it has associations to less than positive qualities of life such as education level or seriousness. Let's say your child grows up to seek success in high finance where people entrust serious portions of their wealth to the management of another. Her excellent resume is headed by the name Raschinda Clarice Wallace and another comparatively excellent resume which arrives on the same day is headed by the name Rachel Catherine Wallace. Which resume do you think that Robert Michael Holbrook is going to attend to with the most interest? If Raschinda can start her own high finance brokerage firm then she's all set. Chances are high, though, that in her attempts to break into an exiting one, she will be bypassed for Rachel and more than a few times. This is not a pretty thing. It is a sign of prejudice and giving in to prejudice feeds it. However, it is the reality with which we live in the present time. It is slowly changing, but many people in hiring positions are of an age where they are still influenced by those mores and and many do not even realize it. Some who do, in sensitive industries, have to factor in that many of their clients who allow their business to continue to thrive and grow and employ people do and they can not afford, for the livelihood of all employed there, to put themselves at a disadvantage to their competition. In this way, unconventional practices can infer higher risk and lower confidence and tradition trumps and in that vein conventional names win because it's all about creating and maintaining confidence through appearance as well as performance. A young person can tailor his attire to a particular position but a name can not be changed by the day and it is often that the name will affect whether a resume passes and an interview is given. A name that is coarse, flighty, or associated with anything that society and industry views as negative or contains specific role associates will not necessarily limit a person from succeeding in any industry they choose to enter once they grow up but it can be one more very difficult stumbling block where there is already a lot of competition to overcome.

good. we just named our baby. we looked for a name that will influence his path in life and that is not so common. we love uncommon names

Once a couple finds their family name and culture, this should be taken into consideration when naming a child. Distinguished names that are unique and extraordinary,seem to give a child a sense of wellbeing. Once the culture is acknowledged,you can match or blend names to fit the last name. Not all names fit this situation.We have a french last name and took this into consideration when we named our 2 boys. Andre'Paul and Honore' John. English these are
Andrew and Henry. Quiet unique and masculine.