What Your Name Decides About Your Life

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  • @troodon1096
    @troodon1096 Před 6 lety +9724

    Fun fact: there are more male CEOs named Peter than there are female CEOs, period. So you have a daughter and want her to be a CEO, name her Peter.

    • @user-nt6zq4ft4j
      @user-nt6zq4ft4j Před 6 lety +175

      Troodon good idea

    • @AtarahDerek
      @AtarahDerek Před 6 lety +471

      Petra, actually. Which, being the feminine form of Peter, means "rock," and really needs to make a comeback among type A personality girls. Petras are generally stronger than Peters.

    • @BrownFoxWarrior
      @BrownFoxWarrior Před 6 lety +88

      Okay, I laughed at this one.

    • @peterbellek1791
      @peterbellek1791 Před 5 lety +159

      Might be a little late... hey but my name is Peter so screw my mom I'm going to be a CEO and make billions. Take the family

    • @anthonymatrisciano924
      @anthonymatrisciano924 Před 5 lety +13

      Troodon lol

  • @Thoomas2001
    @Thoomas2001 Před 6 lety +2933

    So _that's_ why I like trains so much...

  • @ultimatestoryteller
    @ultimatestoryteller Před 4 lety +1662

    I thought Richard was the businessman , Jack was the cowboy and Bob was the third guy

  • @vickypedia1308
    @vickypedia1308 Před 2 lety +852

    Here in Germany (or at least the part I live in), "Kevin's" are stereotyped as troublemakers and jerks, and literally all Kevin's I have met lived up to that. Growing up with a name that has bad connotations causing that wouldn't surprise me. Now I'm a bit worried about people who are genuinely named Karen...

    • @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
      @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Před 2 lety +33

      Didn't know Germany had Kevin's...I'm so used to it being an American name.

    • @demiguise6208
      @demiguise6208 Před 2 lety +73

      @@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Nope it is but not a good one. We kinda have a saying here: "Kevin ist kein Name sondern eine Diagnose" meaning that Kevin is not a name but a diagnosis. The female version of Kevin is probably Chantal. So if you hate your kid and live in Germany just call it Kevin/Chantal and watch the poor thing suffer for the rest of their life.

    • @AtarahDerek
      @AtarahDerek Před 2 lety +4

      The name Kevin means "handsome birth." It's generally accepted that good babies grow up to be a handful.

    • @JSMEsq
      @JSMEsq Před 2 lety +4

      I have an uncle Kevin (US) who was an absolute menace as a child

    • @gabby6327
      @gabby6327 Před 2 lety +9

      The same in Latin America, Kevin, and also brayan wich is stereotyped as a criminal/thug

  •  Před 6 lety +1899

    If you name your kid "Chad" you probably do not expect them to become a rocket scientist.

    • @JS-bp7bu
      @JS-bp7bu Před 6 lety +83

      BMAN488877
      Not many because chad is an English name, not an African one.

    • @cumaproto9466
      @cumaproto9466 Před 6 lety +61

      You expect them to become some immature youtuber who does reaction videos.

    • @hjalticool
      @hjalticool Před 6 lety +3

      huntcheerio haha you got him there

    • @jewslikefunk
      @jewslikefunk Před 6 lety +45

      I knew a guy once name Chad on Xbox Live, he was a vet, who returned to the US post his service & worked in security.
      Great guy, incredibly disciplined and I've had some memorable moments playing Bad Company 3 & GTA IV w/ him.
      Can't trace him down unfortunately, so Chad my man, if you're seeing this, say Hi.

    • @BrySchec
      @BrySchec Před 6 lety +21

      At least you know he's gonna have a weird triangle hair cut and be better than someone named Virgin

  • @cloudthief8918
    @cloudthief8918 Před 6 lety +2019

    If you are self-conscious about your name.. Just remember that there is a guy out the called grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.

  • @marchcross9851
    @marchcross9851 Před 4 lety +411

    HAI: “your name is attached to you as your arm”
    Armless people: “ Wait, who am I again?”

  • @giftedguitarist161
    @giftedguitarist161 Před 4 lety +432

    Whatever you do DON'T NAME YOUR CHILD KAREN!!!

  • @LincolnintheAdirondacks
    @LincolnintheAdirondacks Před 6 lety +1889

    My name is Lincoln... which naturally means I’ll be President someday.

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng Před 6 lety +149

      His first name was Abraham.

    • @juancena1117
      @juancena1117 Před 6 lety +60

      Lincoln Riddle I expect you to beat Kanye In 2020 President Lincoln

    • @LincolnintheAdirondacks
      @LincolnintheAdirondacks Před 6 lety +36

      Juan Cena unfortunately, I won’t be old enough until 2028. But when the day comes, I’ll be there to beat out the next celeb hahaha

    • @LincolnintheAdirondacks
      @LincolnintheAdirondacks Před 6 lety +39

      RaymondHng Having lived my entire life being called Abraham, I can tell you that I could adopt that as my first name and it would be totally normal haha

    • @casewhite5048
      @casewhite5048 Před 6 lety +3

      hahaha I am dead

  • @sazynario
    @sazynario Před 6 lety +885

    Welp, time to change my name to *Kerzlonda.*

    • @SomeRandomDudee
      @SomeRandomDudee Před 5 lety +79

      No need! Just have 15 kids and name them all Kerzlonda so they can make tons of money for you!

    • @davidmartineztorres8731
      @davidmartineztorres8731 Před 4 lety +25

      @@SomeRandomDudee Stonks

    • @Ausf
      @Ausf Před 2 lety +3

      @@SomeRandomDudee Kerzlonda sounds like someone that would have 15 kids, but none of them are making any money.

    • @brrrrrr
      @brrrrrr Před 2 lety

      Okay KERZLONDA

  • @mushroomsoup2866
    @mushroomsoup2866 Před 3 lety +663

    "Your name is as attached to you as your arm"
    me, who has legally changed my name twice: "frick, better tape these arms down"

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 Před 4 lety +286

    1:18 Actually the probability that you get all three by chance is 1 in 6, not 1 in 3.
    The possibilities are {ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, CBA}, only one of which is correct.

    • @aslamawan4594
      @aslamawan4594 Před 4 lety +9

      But the results are over 1/3, psychologically speaking... (Yes, true, well that says something /(;^;)\ )

    • @daveriley6310
      @daveriley6310 Před 4 lety +17

      John, I concluded the same and left a comment along those lines prior to seeing yours. And the other responder to your comment understands statistics and fractions even less than the author of the script.

    • @aslamawan4594
      @aslamawan4594 Před 4 lety +4

      @@daveriley6310 What did you just say? And anyways, obviously it would be a 1 in 6 chance, mathematically speaking. But I was saying that it would be a 1 in 3 chance, taking account of the person's thinking. We are used to the names being arranged like that. (The effect only breaks when you actually know 1 of the 3 people)

    • @RandomVideosRVcubing
      @RandomVideosRVcubing Před 4 lety +3

      Yes, if it was a random pick that would be correct, but like he explained throughout the video, people look like there names a lot of the time, it has a psychological effect, that is why the chance is so high.

    • @vaszgul736
      @vaszgul736 Před 3 lety +6

      The chances of acab is always 100% though

  • @Will-wi7hv
    @Will-wi7hv Před 6 lety +1225

    I’m switching my name to Elon

    • @winstonchurchill624
      @winstonchurchill624 Před 6 lety +28

      Will Hey, give me my name back!

    • @Will-wi7hv
      @Will-wi7hv Před 6 lety +75

      Will Roth you can have it back when I legally change my name to Elongated Muskets

    • @AtarahDerek
      @AtarahDerek Před 6 lety

      Will Weren't those the ghost guns of the 18th century?

    • @crazygamer-um1ey
      @crazygamer-um1ey Před 5 lety +6

      no. keep your name. Unless your real name isn't William, because William E Boeing is way more significant

    • @jaysonz5137
      @jaysonz5137 Před 5 lety +1

      @@crazygamer-um1ey than elon musk?

  • @ShaunakDe
    @ShaunakDe Před 6 lety +1740

    HAI is probably naming his kid Boeing...

    • @scaryanarchist1260
      @scaryanarchist1260 Před 6 lety +43

      Shaunak De Or Airbus (lol), or Embraer (cool name tho, think if your name was Embraer), or maybe if he gets rad, the name would be ATR.
      And if he wants to change surname, Cessna would be an obivious choice.

    • @stevenjlovelace
      @stevenjlovelace Před 6 lety +66

      He/she can play with Real Life Lore's kid Toyota.

    • @shabbirnaqvi1344
      @shabbirnaqvi1344 Před 6 lety +14

      Steve Lovelace it's probably gonna be corrola tho lol

    • @Jim-so3zm
      @Jim-so3zm Před 6 lety +1

      Shabbir Naqvi Wrong channel mate lol.

    • @y__h
      @y__h Před 6 lety +14

      Bombardier packs more bang though

  • @kyleeconrad
    @kyleeconrad Před 4 lety +98

    I was 'this close' to naming my first born Kerzlonda Twiddletoes-- after his father of course, but we went with our 2nd choice. We didn't want him to miss out on suvienier name liscence plate keychains.

    • @kloklon
      @kloklon Před rokem +3

      I hope your son Bort is doing well!

  • @ryane269
    @ryane269 Před 5 lety +196

    "Hi I'm Ryan"
    "Brian?"
    "... Sure"

  • @eater999
    @eater999 Před 6 lety +628

    My heart goes out to all the Twittletoes.

  • @Dekkia_
    @Dekkia_ Před 6 lety +576

    Skillshare is the new Squarespace

    • @1998tkhri
      @1998tkhri Před 6 lety +14

      Don't forget about Audible or Brilliant!

    • @cwovictor3281
      @cwovictor3281 Před 6 lety +5

      Anyone remember the scourge of Blue Apron?

    • @RedCocoon
      @RedCocoon Před 6 lety +3

      Do..dollar shave club?

    • @LancesArmorStriking
      @LancesArmorStriking Před 6 lety +1

      Hey there sonny, have you heard of *C R U N C H Y R O L L?*

  • @marbleswan6664
    @marbleswan6664 Před 5 lety +77

    Newborn baby gets skillshare, learns quantum chromodynamics

  • @builderpepc7803
    @builderpepc7803 Před 4 lety +134

    HAI: "Mumbo Jumbo Pseudo Science Nonsense"
    Mumbo Jumbo on his walking town: *am I a joke to you?*

  • @cheesecakelasagna
    @cheesecakelasagna Před 6 lety +1003

    Nope, I named them Richard, Jack, and Bob.

  • @randomperson6262
    @randomperson6262 Před 6 lety +775

    In germany the most hated name is Kevin. The archetype fot this name is that their dumb, aggresive and easily addicted to drugs. Names can be curses

    • @KevinLikesBananas
      @KevinLikesBananas Před 5 lety +7

      ;(

    • @Starfire_Storm
      @Starfire_Storm Před 5 lety +106

      Ha, Kevin has a similar stereotype here in Mexico, the stereotype is that he's a criminal, but the most laughed at name here is Brian, if Kevin is seen as a criminal, the Brian is the gang leader or some thing like that, if your name is Brian or Kevin here in Mexico, you will be seen as a criminal and if you're not one, you'll be made fun of for having that name.

    • @dragicmagic9870
      @dragicmagic9870 Před 5 lety +15

      Every Kevin I know plays tennis

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 Před 5 lety +64

      The popularity of the name Kevin exploded due to the movie Home Alone from 1990. So it's all Macaulay Culkins fault for being too charming.

    • @cleared2land602
      @cleared2land602 Před 5 lety +32

      For women’s it’s probably Chantal

  • @SpencerfromEarth
    @SpencerfromEarth Před 4 lety +58

    Damn, so we have been the ones creating Karens this whole time. Damn us.

  • @av12.8
    @av12.8 Před 4 lety +15

    We might not agree on some things, but let's agree that was legit the smoothest transition ever.

  • @guilemaigre14
    @guilemaigre14 Před 6 lety +1826

    I am always impressed by your transition to skillshare at the end :p

    • @peterwinkler8888
      @peterwinkler8888 Před 6 lety +52

      I'ts always so funny when you realize that it's that part around 3-5 seconds before the skillshare name appears :D

    • @TechnoColoredMuffins
      @TechnoColoredMuffins Před 6 lety +51

      gifting a website to someones theoretically successful fetus is probably the funniest shill ive seen on youtube. gotta respect the hustle

    • @KinuGrove
      @KinuGrove Před 6 lety +2

      Was thinking the same thing myself.

    • @bobbybrogenlie6177
      @bobbybrogenlie6177 Před 6 lety +20

      That's a skill to share.

    • @KogasaGaSagasa
      @KogasaGaSagasa Před 6 lety +3

      It's amazing, I clapped my hand and yelled "OW!" right in the morning hours. I hope I didn't wake anyone.

  • @thepip3599
    @thepip3599 Před 6 lety +248

    0:54
    I thought for some reason that the first guy was named Richard, and the last was named Bob.

    • @luigi64dd91
      @luigi64dd91 Před 4 lety +16

      Same. It must be because we think Bob = balding guy.

    • @sealand9049
      @sealand9049 Před 4 lety +15

      Bob the builder

    • @thepip3599
      @thepip3599 Před 4 lety +9

      Sealand
      I got so confused because you replied to a comment I left a year ago, and I had no clue what I had been talking about, nevermind what you were talking about. I love old comments. They’re little snapshots in time.

    • @RyanTosh
      @RyanTosh Před 4 lety +3

      @@thepip3599 Wait, so _where_ did you bury the guy's body?
      (Hopefully you wonder what you commented when you get this notification!)

    • @tavasp
      @tavasp Před 3 lety

      Smae

  • @hoshghk
    @hoshghk Před 4 lety +30

    So we work in comoanies that have the same initials as our names?
    Guess i gotta pick between Head & Shoulders and Hyundai

  • @niftythelynx
    @niftythelynx Před 4 lety +62

    What if I've had multiple names due to nicknames and using middle and first name and I don't confine to the mere human concept of names?

    • @daveriley6310
      @daveriley6310 Před 4 lety +13

      Then you identify as a seldom seen and often misunderstood cat. And you work in tech.

    • @blueraspberrylemonade32
      @blueraspberrylemonade32 Před 4 lety +9

      Sounds like you have a hard time hearing so they just yell anything at you, and when something works they stick to it

    • @fangirl_43
      @fangirl_43 Před 4 lety +3

      I actually have multiple nicknames and different groups of people in my life call me a different name. My classmates and new people I meet call me by mi middle name; my close friends call me by a nickname from my middle name; my parents call me by my first name (actually they're the only ones who do that), and my mother's side of the family just calls me by my childhood nickname. It seems and sounds like a mess, but I guess at the end of the day if you truly know who you are then you don't care that much the way people call you.

  • @cheesecakelasagna
    @cheesecakelasagna Před 6 lety +1733

    The dislikes come from the Twiddletoes.

  • @supremebrick
    @supremebrick Před 6 lety +1908

    When your name is unique so this video unrelatable

    • @NovemberOrWhatever
      @NovemberOrWhatever Před 6 lety +124

      to an extent at least, you are the person with the weird name

    • @kanashi9957
      @kanashi9957 Před 6 lety +36

      Same my name is pretty unique too

    • @declank480
      @declank480 Před 6 lety +9

      I feel you bro

    • @nick-xu9wz
      @nick-xu9wz Před 6 lety +283

      Damn "Supreme brick" that is a unique name.

    • @chipsleftwing
      @chipsleftwing Před 6 lety +86

      *especially when it gets mispronounced so much you've just given up*

  • @og_hapsburg7189
    @og_hapsburg7189 Před 4 lety +21

    there’s literally a peter and deborah on dragons den lol

  • @sarahh9494
    @sarahh9494 Před 3 lety +7

    I always had my own little theory about this sort of thing and it's so great to know that there is actually research behind this.

  • @Jarekthegamingdragon
    @Jarekthegamingdragon Před 6 lety +1226

    This video misses one HUGE thing. Names come and go by generation and certain generations are going to act differently than others.

    • @665hp
      @665hp Před 3 lety +35

      Karens: ???

    • @shiv7978
      @shiv7978 Před 3 lety +33

      X Æ 12

    • @merrymachiavelli2041
      @merrymachiavelli2041 Před 3 lety +74

      Not only generations, but also socio-economic status and geography. Even amongst stereotypically ‘White’ names, derived from Britain, you are going to get weak correlations with the background of the parents. Richards may have slightly richer parents on average than Jacks, or more likely to come from one place or another. Richer people and people from different places look subtly different in most contexts. The effect wouldn’t be huge, but we meet and attach so much significance to names it would likely unconsciously effect our guesses.

    • @mcdonalds7266
      @mcdonalds7266 Před 3 lety +1

      @@merrymachiavelli2041 your a legend

    • @connerstewart7155
      @connerstewart7155 Před 3 lety

      @@665hp yes exactly

  • @felixcharles9773
    @felixcharles9773 Před 6 lety +121

    The entire video I was just thinking of 'A boy named Sue'

  • @sm1522
    @sm1522 Před 5 lety +22

    This is literally the most interesting entertaining and constructive CZcams video. Thank you for it’s creation

  • @the.abhiram.r
    @the.abhiram.r Před 5 lety +30

    I was named after my grandparents house, so I guess I'll be living with my grandma in the future?

  • @plum_bit
    @plum_bit Před 6 lety +80

    I shall name my first child Kerzlonda

    • @romanfox5368
      @romanfox5368 Před 6 lety +16

      And your second child shall be Twiddletoes.

  • @CloroxBleach-ms7eo
    @CloroxBleach-ms7eo Před 6 lety +624

    Dam this is accurate
    I actually look like my name

  • @kariuki6644
    @kariuki6644 Před 4 lety +18

    I thought Richard would be the guy in the suit

  • @Rofl890
    @Rofl890 Před 3 lety +7

    I've always wondered why the Kyles that I've met are so... Kyle

  • @HumeanPiano
    @HumeanPiano Před 6 lety +1351

    Since my name is Diaz, every Spanish person has to say "Goodmorning morning"(demonic laugh is made)

    • @philthefinadelphian4830
      @philthefinadelphian4830 Před 6 lety +53

      *HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*
      Eqhm, *I digress*

    • @Faulheit
      @Faulheit Před 6 lety +104

      Buenos días, Diaz.

    • @bonobo2181
      @bonobo2181 Před 6 lety +8

      I don't get it

    • @gabrielpraslin9576
      @gabrielpraslin9576 Před 6 lety +26

      George Meadway It makes a Spanish pun. Buenos dias, Diaz.

    • @molotera8789
      @molotera8789 Před 6 lety +22

      actually its "Good morning, days"
      or you could say "Buen día, Díaz" which is "Good day, days"

  • @bippersquipper5878
    @bippersquipper5878 Před 6 lety +2708

    Who got all three names wrong 😂

  • @petuniaraining
    @petuniaraining Před 3 lety +1

    That was a smooth transition to the sponsor in the end. Bravo! 👏

  • @nitsu2947
    @nitsu2947 Před 4 lety +13

    my name is Patrick, so my life is destined to be Spongebob's best friend

    • @familyfun5301
      @familyfun5301 Před 3 lety

      And like Squidward yet he hates u

    • @nitsu2947
      @nitsu2947 Před 3 lety

      @@familyfun5301 yeah, my life is also destined to be hated by Squidward

  • @FutureNow
    @FutureNow Před 6 lety +669

    My name having an accent mark (Julián) has decided people will try to say my name in Spanish incorrectly my whole life.

    • @tsukone620
      @tsukone620 Před 6 lety +8

      FutureNow Welcome to the club.

    • @LunaTulpa
      @LunaTulpa Před 6 lety +43

      I feel bad for people names "jorge or jesus" because white people would be saying george or the usual way jesus is pronounced

    • @Sir_Budginton
      @Sir_Budginton Před 6 lety +34

      FutureNow you're right!!! When I was reading your name I automatically pronounced it in a Spanish accent, and then I read the next bit and I was like "WTF!!!".

    • @boxershorts989
      @boxershorts989 Před 6 lety +13

      my name is Ole and every american dude thinks i am some kind of country band

    • @FutureNow
      @FutureNow Před 6 lety +11

      My name is pronounced in Spanish. But most people who aren’t native speakers pronounce it incorrectly in Spanish is what I was saying.

  • @Bunni_boi
    @Bunni_boi Před 6 lety +67

    So I'm Rafael. Would that mean I would have to become a Ninja Turtle, a famous artist, or a tennis player like my forefathers before me?

    • @AtarahDerek
      @AtarahDerek Před 6 lety +3

      Or? Why the or? Why not and?

    • @kelseycoca
      @kelseycoca Před 6 lety +3

      Don't sell yourself short. You can do them all!!

    • @wongzuyao5462
      @wongzuyao5462 Před 5 lety +2

      You can also run for US president as a senator from Texas who’s mistaken for the zodiac killer

  • @gwenderp6229
    @gwenderp6229 Před 5 lety +7

    This is interesting because my friends had a game where we'd look up our names on urban dictionary and see if they matched us and 90% of the time they did.

  • @t6amygdala
    @t6amygdala Před 3 lety +1

    I thought Richard was the businessman. Bob was the cowboy. And jack was the guy on the very right

  • @themasstermwahahahah
    @themasstermwahahahah Před 6 lety +338

    My name is Wolfgang and I just happen to play the piano...

    • @genroynoisis6980
      @genroynoisis6980 Před 6 lety +24

      omegadan a friend of mine is called Viola and plays the violin. Says her mother and grandmother both have the name Viola and also play the violin. Spooky.

    • @MarloSoBalJr
      @MarloSoBalJr Před 6 lety +2

      I guess Taylorgang would master the art of hip-hop and rap

    • @zetaruler
      @zetaruler Před 6 lety +25

      omegadan You're lucky, Wolfgang is an awesome name.
      Now I really want to see a bunch of wolves in greaser outfits smoking behind a diner.

    • @nancycruz1756
      @nancycruz1756 Před 6 lety +3

      gabor umm.....tf

    • @wilhelmthomsen8560
      @wilhelmthomsen8560 Před 6 lety +5

      I know a friend called Saxo, and he happens to play saxophone

  • @ZeroTwo-gd5nq
    @ZeroTwo-gd5nq Před 6 lety +447

    Name your child Ajit to be the most hated person in the United States

    • @allanrichardson1468
      @allanrichardson1468 Před 6 lety +18

      EpicClone5082 If I owned a progressive ISP company I would have my servers scan every packet and change Ajit to Traitor whenever it occurred, just to make the point that his new rules MAKE THAT LEGAL.

    • @Quellification
      @Quellification Před 6 lety +11

      Try adolf instead

    • @xdolphin7337
      @xdolphin7337 Před 6 lety +2

      Resat Yildirim i was about to say that.

    • @xdolphin7337
      @xdolphin7337 Před 6 lety +1

      Maybe also kim

    • @krombopulos_michael
      @krombopulos_michael Před 6 lety +5

      "Ajit"? More like a "a shit"!

  • @ca-ke9493
    @ca-ke9493 Před 3 lety +2

    I think Bob the Builder made me see Bob as a wacky name so I got all the matching wrong

  • @o76923
    @o76923 Před 5 lety +1

    Another factor related to names comes from elementary school. Assigned seating is still relatively common early in your educational career. Alphabetical order is the most common scheme for that. That means that students whose names (usually last names) are earlier in the alphabet are more likely to sit near the front of the classroom. That is correlated with higher academic performance.

    • @lzh4950
      @lzh4950 Před 2 lety

      In my country (Singapore) we sit in alphabetical order only in exams, & even so its in serpentine fashion. Also in secondary school (equivalent to 7-10th grade) & some subjects in junior college (equivalent to 11-12th grade), ladies went 1st too

  • @DolphinDive2hell
    @DolphinDive2hell Před 6 lety +303

    I feel like the higher than expected number of 'Georgias' in Georgia, and to a lesser extent the other cities discussed, is more likely because of parents naming their children after the state rather than Georgias moving there (although it's probably still a minor factor).

    • @allanrichardson1468
      @allanrichardson1468 Před 6 lety +1

      Harry Nevard Sweet Georgia Brown!

    • @allanrichardson1468
      @allanrichardson1468 Před 6 lety +2

      Mycel My Post had NOTHING to do with heroin. I was citing an ACTUAL TV AD for a certain make and model of automobile. I hate having to explain punch lines, but for you: the older child learned that she was named after the CITY in which her parents (a “normal” married couple, as far as we know) conceived her. But her baby SISTER was named for the kind of CAR in which ... they may have been re-enacting their high school memories.
      NOW do you get it?
      Oh, I just noticed you were responding to my EARLIER post. The song “Sweet Georgia Brown” is normally assumed to refer to a woman the singer admired. If there was any drug reference, it was so well hidden that, after the Harlem Globetrotters used it as background music for their basketball shows, it has become identified in mainstream media with basketball.
      In the 1970s, Mel Brooks and his wife Anne Bancroft produced, directed, and starred in a remake of Jack Benny’s wartime dark humor movie “To Be or Not to Be,” about a Vaudeville theater in Warsaw whose owners run a scam on the Nazi occupiers, including Benny’s/Brooks’ character impersonating Hitler, to get a Free Polish pilot, their theater staff (Jews, Poles, and at least one gay man), and themselves to freedom.
      The Brooks version of the movie begins with the couple on stage, singing and dancing, and the song is Sweet Georgia Brown, IN POLISH!
      Nothing in there about drugs!

    • @James-ot6ff
      @James-ot6ff Před 6 lety +2

      They are probably both major factors

    • @minecraftminertime
      @minecraftminertime Před 6 lety +2

      What's probably still a minor factor? Because people will move to cities with their own name, or because parents naming their children are more likely to name them after the place that they are in?

    • @DolphinDive2hell
      @DolphinDive2hell Před 6 lety +5

      People moving to cities with their own name would still be a minor factor. It just think that parents naming their children after the place they live is a greater factor :)

  • @thevideogamingchannel0
    @thevideogamingchannel0 Před 6 lety +418

    I got Jack right, but not Richard and Bob.

    • @ShreyRupani
      @ShreyRupani Před 6 lety +74

      TheVideoGamingChannel Same. I reckon we thought the same thing, Jacks are more western, or wild. Bobs are the commoners. Like average Joe or average Bob. Richards are more.... rich. That guy was wearing a suit.

    • @jaschabull2365
      @jaschabull2365 Před 6 lety +10

      Yeah, I mixed those two up as well, seemingly for the same reason. Though I hesitated a bit afterward, and thought I might have.
      Maybe I'd have thought differently if I'd been asked who was "Robert" and who was "Rick" or "Dick".

    • @mohammedjawahri5726
      @mohammedjawahri5726 Před 6 lety +2

      TheVideoGamingChannel i got them all right,jack wasn't that clear but richard and bob looked sooo richard and bob if that makes sense lol

    • @senekinotkaneki3537
      @senekinotkaneki3537 Před 6 lety +2

      TheVideoGamingChannel yea i thought bob looked more bobbish but i said richard because richard’s are generally more successful

    • @Jordan19309
      @Jordan19309 Před 6 lety

      Same.

  • @Vallee152
    @Vallee152 Před 3 lety +3

    with the first thing, I was completely off, going left to right, I thought it was Richared, Bob, and then Jack

  • @sbmmurray
    @sbmmurray Před 5 lety +5

    Holy shit! Hometown Redditch finally getting some recognition!

  • @2Zemog
    @2Zemog Před 6 lety +114

    Could some of this not be attributed to the fact that certain names are more popular in certain socio-economic groups and subcultures, and children born into those groups and cultures are more likely to act in accordance with their associated parental culture and class?

    • @chrishall2594
      @chrishall2594 Před 6 lety +5

      Daniel Bolstad well, in the sense that ghetto names from the hood aren't going to impress anybody in proper society, yes.

    • @troodon1096
      @troodon1096 Před 6 lety +12

      You say that like it somehow invalidates the concept. Parents who want their children to rise above their socioeconomic class will often give them names that they feel will help them do so. And it often works. Most likely self-fulfilling prophecy is the most salient explanation for the phenomenon, but culture does play into it too.

    • @Alice-kq8eo
      @Alice-kq8eo Před 6 lety

      Absolutely.

  • @f1scherman
    @f1scherman Před 6 lety +187

    So this confirms that every person named Ajit will grow up to be a horrible government official?

    • @f1scherman
      @f1scherman Před 6 lety +8

      Thanks for correcting my mistake lol

    • @yarde.n
      @yarde.n Před 6 lety +11

      *the killer of all good things in life

    • @grandsome1
      @grandsome1 Před 6 lety +10

      "I've become a
      Ajit destroyer of world." said the scientist who built the next big WMD.

    • @dajjukunrama5695
      @dajjukunrama5695 Před 6 lety

      Anon ymous I like you, we are the "17%" Kappa

    • @tidebleach8215
      @tidebleach8215 Před 6 lety

      no everyone named ajit will be my dad who went to bug cigarettes and never came back

  • @rebasack21
    @rebasack21 Před 2 lety

    My parents when naming me and my siblings kept one major thing in mind that way to many parents dont stop to consider, how easy will this name be for other kids to turn into an insult? They went out of their way to pick names that were common but not easy targets. I for one am thankful for that.

  • @iamnotmyown
    @iamnotmyown Před 4 lety +2

    Interesting that the OG Peter and Deborah were both leaders even among other leaders

  • @benjaminb.4043
    @benjaminb.4043 Před 6 lety +238

    Wouldn't the conclusion also require that kids do not have similar paths as their parents? As in a professors child is more likely to go down the same path as the parent, while the parent is less likely to call the child "chad", because it's a name not really associated with professors.

    • @MSpencer1998
      @MSpencer1998 Před 6 lety +35

      I also think with the places with your name thing, it's can also be parents naming their kids Louis because they live in St. Louis, also making it disproportionate.

    • @RealCadde
      @RealCadde Před 6 lety +6

      Good point, but the video talks about how your name influences you regardless of what life you are born into.
      If your parents are professors but they, for some reason, give you the name "Adolf Hitler" then you are quite likely to have a difficult time regardless of your social status at birth.
      At the same time, if you are born to a poor family but your name is William. You are more likely (than most other names) to outgrow your poor status.
      And finally, not all names are equal on a global scale. If your name is Herschel and you are born in Syria then you are quite likely to be or have been beheaded.

    • @LeZylox
      @LeZylox Před 6 lety

      U lucky Basterd...

    • @brrrrrr
      @brrrrrr Před 2 lety +2

      Did your parents really name you Benjamin Benjamin?

  • @fabiansturman7404
    @fabiansturman7404 Před 6 lety +75

    What about parents choosing names that reflect themselves, when the parents then pass their traits down to their children, through the bringing up of the children?

  • @freeonreal
    @freeonreal Před 5 lety +4

    0:33 hit me at an emotional level

  • @nessy3098
    @nessy3098 Před 5 lety +1

    I feel like this can be attributed to name popularity in different areas of wealth/industry/etc.

  • @CzarOfMars
    @CzarOfMars Před 6 lety +174

    This looks like a massive correlation vs causation misjudgement. Don't you think that people with rich sounding names are more likely to succeed because they come from a rich family, rather than because their names urge them to?
    For example, people with names affiliated to poor families are much less likely to pass exams than the ones with fancy names, the statistics are very clear. According to this video, it would seem to be because their name pressured them to study less...

    • @TheCrazyOfTheRedston
      @TheCrazyOfTheRedston Před 6 lety +18

      exactly! it goes the other way around, I was looking for this comment

    • @nosirrah9207
      @nosirrah9207 Před 6 lety +12

      This video is a bit misleading

    • @TrentSikute
      @TrentSikute Před 6 lety +15

      You are almost certainly correct. People have such a poor understanding of statistics. Experiments prove causation, not observations.

    • @DysnomiaFilms
      @DysnomiaFilms Před 6 lety +10

      Also, is it not likely that parents in Georgia would be likely to name their baby girl after their home state that they know and love?

    • @jaclynrachellec
      @jaclynrachellec Před 6 lety +4

      Occupy Mars Didn't they kind of say that by describing it as a self fulfilling prophecy?

  • @Triniswe
    @Triniswe Před 6 lety +98

    I'm hit by a smooth transition once again...

  • @theguywiththefuzzyhat385

    The thing about the most common CEO names supposedly comes from a linkedinsights article from the company linkedin, or at least according to several articles I saw not by linkedin. On the actual linkedinsights website the original doesn't exist as far as I can see.

  • @christianponce4836
    @christianponce4836 Před 4 lety +1

    I was talking with my brother about something like this a few weeks ago, trippy

  • @iamjoris
    @iamjoris Před 6 lety +74

    What about certain names being more popular in certain social climates? So a name that is more seen with professors could be more popular with parents that come from families that have more academics. For me, that sounds more or at least just as plausible as people living up to their names.

    • @csxfan_
      @csxfan_ Před 6 lety +1

      Joris Exactly what I was thinking. I have no idea what my name is supposed to live up to, and I'm sure that's the case for many other people. That makes it hard for the self-fulfilling prophesy theory to actually work out.

  • @aristerosgiatros8742
    @aristerosgiatros8742 Před 6 lety +41

    My name is kerzlonda as well
    But they call me George

  • @Aeturnalis
    @Aeturnalis Před 4 lety +3

    2:18 thanks, now I have to wash vomit off of my computer.

  • @noahswindler7461
    @noahswindler7461 Před 4 lety +9

    0:30 that's a nasty arm

  • @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978

    I'll name my kid Lamborghini.

  • @goldplaybuttonwithoutanyup1121

    That ad transition was so smooth I was half way through my 4th skill share course before I realised I wasn't on CZcams anymore

  • @Alacrity23688
    @Alacrity23688 Před 3 lety

    If people's names match the place they live in more often than could be attributed to chance, I would assume it is because parents often named their children after the place they were conceived or born or after the person that place was named after and those children stayed around their birthplace or returned to it later in life.

  • @matthewlebo1841
    @matthewlebo1841 Před 3 lety +3

    I’m honestly kinda freaked out about this. I rearranged them several times in my head and was constantly second guessing myself, yet I still got all three right.

  • @MustafaBinYousaf
    @MustafaBinYousaf Před 6 lety +36

    That smoothness of changing topic and telling about your sponsor :P

  • @granbulljan
    @granbulljan Před 6 lety +72

    I think it is more than just a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think that the distribution of names in not equal among all social-economic classes.

    • @GuiSmith
      @GuiSmith Před 6 lety +1

      granbulljan It’s more directly a cultural bias than a classist one, but it does cut into class culture. Homeless folk have a slightly different culture than the lower middle class, then the upper middle, and the top tier with more offshoots there. A name is partially dependent on where you start life. It can be a prophecy or future determined by where you begin.

    • @hplovecraft3112
      @hplovecraft3112 Před 6 lety +2

      *Hears URSS anthem in the distance*

    • @granbulljan
      @granbulljan Před 6 lety

      I agree with you, but because it does play a roll I wanted to mention it

  • @bellabooo9774
    @bellabooo9774 Před 2 lety

    so how would a chosen name work? especially if people have never heard it before, do you start becoming that name after you were already becoming your previous name?

  • @tactusmediacompany
    @tactusmediacompany Před 5 lety

    LOL that skillshare plug at the end

  • @bonobo2181
    @bonobo2181 Před 6 lety +126

    I feel like this video doesn't go into nearly enough depth, and does sound surprisingly like pseudoscience to me. Are people named Chad less likely to become professors because they're living up to societal expectations based on their name, or is it because the name Chad is more common in communities where people are less likely to because of (for example) socioeconomic reasons? Are people named Georgia REALLY more likely to move to Georgia, or are their parents just naming them after the state they were born in?

    • @Kastor774
      @Kastor774 Před 6 lety +7

      George Meadway you’re getting it wrong, the name of the channel is also a self-fulfilling prophecy, turning out that is not as interesting as it should be.

    • @TakanashiYuuji
      @TakanashiYuuji Před 6 lety +6

      The boring answer is that it's probably a little bit of both. I also thought this video was a little short.

    • @TheKrossRoads
      @TheKrossRoads Před 6 lety +2

      It makes sense. If you name your kid "Dinkledwarf McBumnugget" that kid will probably end up being a serial killer because every moment spent in school will be absolute torture that will breed a lifetime of resentment toward both authority (parents) and others.
      An extreme example surely, but it proves a point. Names have power over us because they literally identify and define us. We see other people with our names and society puts a subtle amount of pressure on us to live up to our namesake in those people.
      We also get treated differently because of our names. If the same woman sends in job applications with the names "Jennifer" and "Shaniqua" with everything else being the same, "Jennifer" will most likely get more consideration because "Shaniqua" has some negative connotations associated with it. It's like meeting someone named "Hitler". You know that kid is troubled.

    • @RossMcLeod
      @RossMcLeod Před 6 lety +4

      This. Your name is chosen by your parents, so it's generally based on their social, geographical and cultural environment. For a quick example, someone named 'Charles' could be more likely to come from a more upper/middle class background than a 'Steven' and therefore have different opportunities.
      Not that either name represents any particular class, but the chances are the choice was made based on the parents' preferences. Therefore heavily influenced by the family background, which is totally out of the person's control, and nothing to do with societal expectations.
      In the end, it's an almost impossible theory to prove due to the amount of variables.

    • @lNFINlTEx
      @lNFINlTEx Před 6 lety

      With the "Jennifer" and "Shaqifar" thing, it is not the names that have the power but the social circumstance that they imply.
      Honestly, it is hard to be convinced by this argument except in extreme cases like "Hitler". Even in those cases, you'd think the fact that their parents are insane would have something to do with how terrible their lives are.
      Between "Bob" and "Jack", it is terribly hard to attribute the differences to the name rather than the name to the social group of the parents.

  • @lan204
    @lan204 Před 6 lety +33

    Freakonomics anyone? Also, I do take some issue with your conclusions. It is possible that people of a certain socioeconomic class choose names specific to their socioeconomic class. With redistribution of people amongst socioeconomic classes not being 100%, you would have people with high socioeconomic status having certain names due to them having been born to high socioeconomic status and not their name giving them higher socioeconomic status.

  • @IABITVpresents
    @IABITVpresents Před 4 lety +4

    I thought HAI was gonna make a name reveal at the beginning to make a point

  • @SarahLarsonwgm
    @SarahLarsonwgm Před 4 lety

    I think that something else that has a big effect on why names match people is that sometimes certain types of parents name there children certain names. Some names sound "hillbilly" or "hippie" or "wealthy" because it's mostly parents who meet that description who would choose that sort of name.

  • @ScreamCZEG
    @ScreamCZEG Před 6 lety +329

    OK... I need to know... Am I only one, who did not match ANY name to correct person? :D

    • @kenma2287
      @kenma2287 Před 6 lety +29

      If you don't live in the US or English isn't your first language, the names might have different associations attached to them.

    • @suprememax4948
      @suprememax4948 Před 6 lety +1

      Kensei Maeda well I'm neither too but I got all of them right 😅

    • @itsastrocat4158
      @itsastrocat4158 Před 6 lety +32

      Kensei Maeda
      I got them all wrong as well. I’m from the U.S with English as my primary language so... does that make me a statistical outlier?

    • @NoManIsland99
      @NoManIsland99 Před 6 lety +6

      I didn't even tried to match their names

    • @alex_gaimar
      @alex_gaimar Před 6 lety

      Same

  • @avinashkhetri9575
    @avinashkhetri9575 Před 6 lety +123

    These transitions are so smooth

  • @eldernamedtoe3614
    @eldernamedtoe3614 Před 2 lety

    Such a criminally good transition to the sponsor

  • @metadragon7500
    @metadragon7500 Před 4 lety +1

    All this video taught me is that I’m terrible at guessing names

  • @rodrigopaim82
    @rodrigopaim82 Před 6 lety +158

    Wow, I actually get the names right.
    Bob definitely have a "Bob" face

    • @spazz3696
      @spazz3696 Před 6 lety +4

      Same I got all three and I just thought jack and bob really fit them and left Richard from the hair

    • @bgezal
      @bgezal Před 6 lety +14

      Got them all correct too. I thought Bob sounded like some car salesman smile, Richard was a more aristocratic heritage, and Jack more free spirit artist/adventurer. Sometimes I feel a dissonance if the name and face doesn't match.

    • @Locutus
      @Locutus Před 6 lety

      I got Bob right. The other two, I didn't even guess.

    • @WJames-nq2df
      @WJames-nq2df Před 6 lety

      Same shape as Bobby hill.

    • @natfailsyoutube8163
      @natfailsyoutube8163 Před 6 lety +2

      The video is nonsense, as should be clear from the spouting random words unashamedly at the beginning?! (not saying the uncited paper: "We Look Like Our Names: The Manifestation of Name Stereotypes in Facial Appearance" is but at the very least read it yourselves rather than listen to what someone else tells you it says...) Anyway Bob's name isn't "Bob" it's actually "Robert" (ie. he chooses to be called "Bob") and satistically people that got it right are more likely to comment/agree with you here, in a conversation that is sounding alot like the pseudo-scientific blood type superstition.

  • @arkt1k330
    @arkt1k330 Před 6 lety +64

    I know a professor named Chad...

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 Před 5 lety +8

      And I know a bunch of professors who look like hobos. Maybe we should not judge because of names or looks.

    • @mattnorris7124
      @mattnorris7124 Před 5 lety +17

      His full name is probably Chadwick

    • @MattEatonVideo
      @MattEatonVideo Před 5 lety +1

      Arkt1k is it Northwestern Professor Chad Mirkin? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Mirkin

    • @RoryRose_
      @RoryRose_ Před 4 lety +1

      No you don't.

    • @SuperSMT
      @SuperSMT Před 4 lety +1

      I had one too! In calculus. He was finishing up his PhD when I had him

  • @hazee03
    @hazee03 Před 3 lety +1

    damn that guess the name thing was crazy

  • @lizzsszzy7800
    @lizzsszzy7800 Před 5 lety

    I was named after a town in Wyoming (Cody). And I can confirm I do feel more somehow likely to live there than other towns in Wyoming (like Casper, Gillette, or Jackson).

  • @webley3635
    @webley3635 Před 6 lety +247

    I hate outie belly buttons

    • @loljustice31
      @loljustice31 Před 5 lety +40

      I think that in pregnancy a lot of women's belly buttons turn into outies, they're not always like that at first.

    • @diana3599
      @diana3599 Před 4 lety +9

      an "outie" could be that the initial surgery to make the naval an "innie" failed. I.e. a little hernia before the sutures have healed.To fix it later, unless the person is experiencing medical problems, insurance companies would likely consider it cosmetic surgery. And yes, pregnancy is also a huge cause of ".outies". Albeit temporary most often. Probably just as well that someone that has an "outie" is not on your radar. You seem kind of shallow.

    • @blueraspberrylemonade32
      @blueraspberrylemonade32 Před 4 lety +20

      @@diana3599 some people can't stand the sight of blood, some people can't stand looking at spiders, some people can't stand outies, some people can't stand r/slash Karens

    • @vaszgul736
      @vaszgul736 Před 3 lety +2

      Whether a belly button is innie or outie during pregnancy depends on if the baby is laying with its back to the front of the belly (forcing the navel out because the baby's spine is hard), or if the baby is laying differently (allowing the navel to sink in)
      The most common resting position for a navel during pregnancy is outie because the baby's head, spine, and sometimes even feet force it out, and in late trimesters it can be constantly like that. It'll usually go back in after the baby is born.

    • @yestermorrow3223
      @yestermorrow3223 Před 3 lety

      Well, my feelings are hurt.

  • @millakatariina64
    @millakatariina64 Před 6 lety +41

    Also one other way names affect my daily life:
    Being the first in my class' name list
    You don't know how many times I've been "late" just because my name is first on the list.

    • @lilyyoung1002
      @lilyyoung1002 Před 4 lety +4

      My last name is generally last on the list

    • @catinusz.4741
      @catinusz.4741 Před 3 lety +2

      Well my first name and last name all starts with Z so everytime we're getting stuff I was always the last

    • @millakatariina64
      @millakatariina64 Před 3 lety +2

      @PowderSnom There was a guy in my class for 6 years whose last name was Aalto so I kinda witnessed that struggle too.
      -(I was the first on the list after I changed schools)-

  • @sidneysun5217
    @sidneysun5217 Před rokem +1

    there's also a study that confirmed easier to pronounce names are less likely to be bullied in school

  • @devandevan1403
    @devandevan1403 Před 4 lety +2

    Sure Peter and Deborah are the most common in business people, but you have to consider when they were born. Name trends change over time. By the time they’re old enough to be a business man or woman, the most common name will be likely to have changed.

  • @delian7721
    @delian7721 Před 6 lety +69

    i matched all the names wrong... :(

  • @HSI_451
    @HSI_451 Před 6 lety +113

    Please note that the probability for guessing all three names correctly is NOT 1/3 but instead 1/6. When the first name is guessed right, the remaining chance is 1/2 so the total chance is: 1/2 * 1/3 --> 1/6

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Před 6 lety +37

      I think he was referring to the chance of guessing them as individuals, based on the 3 available choices, instead of nailing that guess 3 times in a row. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt here.

    • @nitez2730
      @nitez2730 Před 6 lety +2

      Also known as factorials,
      1/3!

    • @Zharque
      @Zharque Před 6 lety +5

      NiteZ Comments 1/(3!)

    • @ganonk79
      @ganonk79 Před 5 lety +3

      @@Zharque No need for the parentheses. Factorial has a higher order of precedence than division. mathworld.wolfram.com/Precedence.html

    • @Zharque
      @Zharque Před 5 lety +1

      @@ganonk79 I didn't know that and good to know, although I do know that 1/2! specifically is not equal to 1/(2!) which was what I was kinda basing on.

  • @grass.grass.
    @grass.grass. Před 2 lety +1

    I feel that it really depends on who you see in your life. If your friend is Tom, and you try to imagine a person called Tom (that’s not your friend), you’re most likely to still imagine someone that looks like your friend

  • @creditworthy6414
    @creditworthy6414 Před 4 lety +18

    The Virgin Twiddletoes vs. the Chad Kerzlonda