There is a lot of time to know what studies our children will want to take, many readers do not even have children yet, but surely they are already considering what name to give to future babies. Well, we return with a curious topic that we discussed a few days ago, since the baby's name could be related to the studies you do.
As we saw, the child's name was related to school grades in a certain way, as was apparent from an investigation published in 2009 by Julia Kube, at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) and directed by Professor Astrid Kaiser.
This study offered a list of proper names associated with negative prejudices and another related to positive prejudices, and it was also suggested that a student's own name influences the type of studies he will perform.
Specifically, there were certain names that were repeated more in elite schools compared to schools targeting the lower classes. In Germany, children of higher class and higher school performance attend the "Gymnasium", which is usually the precedent of university studies.
On the other hand, children of lower cultural level and recipients of social assistance usually go to the "Hauptschule" (the majority of their students will end up performing trades of low specialization or low remuneration).
Well, Kevin's name (associated with a low social status) appeared exclusively in the lists of students from Hauptschule, but not from the Gymnasium. Something quite difficult to believe if the lists of students of several years and several institutes had been taken, don't you think?
I would like to see the original study to determine what the analyzed data were, if they were more or less fulfilled with other names associated with negative connotations in Germany like Mandy or Cedric…
What we do know is that, in the same way as with school grades, this curious association did not occur in the case of girls, since female names associated with negative prejudices such as Vanessa or Jaqueline did appear interchangeably in the Hapstschule and the Gymnasium
As I mentioned when talking about this study and its relationship with school grades, although there may be a certain trend, it will be temporary (the fashions of the names are very variable) and not decisive, since surely many other factors are relevant at the time that a child has some studies or others in the future.
The imposition of one or other names will have a hardly measurable relevance, and I would not worry too much about if the baby's name will be related to his future studies. Better go step by step, I'm sure that, a priori, any Kevin, Jessica or Fabiano of all Saints can have higher education.
