Well, if you’re going to have a boy, you might like to stay away from some of them down home names like… Sue, Sherrill or Pearl. I knew a Sherrill once and he had lots of trouble. Here’s a true story:
(Phone Rings)
Sherrill: “Hello”
Caller: “May I talk to Sherrill LaPorte?”
Sherrill: “Go ahead”
Caller: “er, I mean, the lady of the house, Sherrill LaPorte?”
Sherrill: “got ’em, what do you want?”
Caller: “Sorry, Ma’am, you have such a … nice… low voice.”
(CLICK – expletives deleted)
However, for girls, a slightly masculine name or ‘handle’ works out just fine. I never thought that General “Muffy” was a good idea. In choosing a name for your daughter… it really does make a difference and it really does matter… so says this latest study.
In “Baby Name report card”, Dr. Albert Mahrabian says:
“…Names like Katherine, James or Alexander, convey images of success to these names; in contrast, names like Fifi, Didi, Brandy or Trixie evoke images of a hat check girl or a cocktail waitress.”
Laura and I gave our daughters names a lot of thought and here are a few things we agreed:
1) We wanted to give them a reasonable middle name as a ‘back up”
2) One of the names (middle names) should come from a female family member
3) The first name should be warm, positive, strong and should sound nice if preceeded by “General” or “President” or “Mom”.
So, take some time to think about how it would be to grow up with any name….
Roger Freberg
