Never mind that most of us don't pick our own names and can't help it if our parents are eccentric.

Sorry--I do have a sense of humor, too, and I'll admit I've seen names that make me cringe but I don't think people with names that aren't to my taste are stupid and worthless. The brother of a friend of mine named his daughter "Bridget Madison" after The Bridges of Madison County, which I think is awful, but it doesn't mean the kid won't win the Nobel Prize.





That said, I've run across the following authors in our library catalog:

Edwin G. Boring
Irving B. Wiener
Hyman Spotnitz
Smiley Blanton

and yet they all grew up to be M.D.'s and made numerous contributions to psychiatric literature. More than I've done and I'm named after Sojourner Truth and have a decidedly un-funny Victorian given name.