According to that article good names for German children that make teachers think the child is high performing are: “Charlotte, Sophie, Marie, Hannah, Alexander, Maximilian, Simon, Lukas and Jakob”. On the other hand bad names are: “Kevin, Chantal, Mandy, Justin and Angelina”.
Gunnar said to name children after the children of celebrities, not directly after celebrities. But certainly using foreign celebrities is a very bad idea.
Gunnar said to name children after the children of celebrities, not directly after celebrities.
The kind of person who follows magazine that tells them about the name of celebrities still isn’t high status.
It’s been a while till I researched the topic in more detail. Artists don’t wear suits to appear high status and the don’t give their children high status names. Royals and aristocrats might be a valid choice if you live in a country that has them.
In the US the way that people who go to Harvard and Yale name their children is what’s counts as high status signal.
You don’t want hollywood celebrities. Low status people name their kids after hollywood celebrities. In Germany given kids Anglosaxon names is a sign of low status. http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/studie-kindernamen-und-vorurteile-von-wegen-schall-und-rauch-1.44178
According to that article good names for German children that make teachers think the child is high performing are: “Charlotte, Sophie, Marie, Hannah, Alexander, Maximilian, Simon, Lukas and Jakob”. On the other hand bad names are: “Kevin, Chantal, Mandy, Justin and Angelina”.
Gunnar said to name children after the children of celebrities, not directly after celebrities. But certainly using foreign celebrities is a very bad idea.
The kind of person who follows magazine that tells them about the name of celebrities still isn’t high status.
It’s been a while till I researched the topic in more detail. Artists don’t wear suits to appear high status and the don’t give their children high status names. Royals and aristocrats might be a valid choice if you live in a country that has them.
In the US the way that people who go to Harvard and Yale name their children is what’s counts as high status signal.
Yes. Use the childrens names of your local high status people.
I second that. Celebrity is misleading. I wanted to give a concrete example “high status people” is too abstract.