Experts say that names are becoming more diverse. Names also influence your grades, job, and etcetera. Two men whose life changed due to their names were Wes Moore and Wes Moore. One Wes Moore was on his local newspaper for having good academic achievements, and the other was on the same newspaper for a jewelry store robbery where one police officer and one father of five were killed. When the first Moore saw that the second shared his name, he befriended him. The first went on to work in the White House and the other went on to get a life sentence. But the two remained in contact. Also, a study showed that a person with a “black sounding” name is 50% less likely to get a call back from a job interview than a person with a “white sounding name”. That is the effect of a name. Names are also getting more diverse as parents are thinking over what to name their child longer. "They want their child to have something neat or inspiring," Michael Campbell, owner of Behindthename.com, said. The number of baby girls who have the most popular name is half of 1960. Some unique names are Neveah, heaven spelled backwards, or Memphis.
Anyone can be named anything, so I don't believe your name makes any difference in your life. Even if there were stories of how a name changed a life, there is no proof that another name wouldn't have done the same effect. I believe that it is not important what you are named, but rather I think a person can change his own destiny. Wes Moore’s name didn’t get him out of jail, and the same name got a person into the White House. There is obviously no effect of names on people. Being named a popular name, or being named a unique name is not important. What is more significant is what you make of that name in your life. It is interesting to see that people want their children to stick out more. However, a name will not be more important than the other aspects of you. If a nation like the U.S. is still discriminating due just to the sound of the person’s name, I think there is a long way to go for racism to be gone.
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