Name of our child will stop them from getting a good job?

Question

Hello,

My wife and I are weighing several names for our child. My surname is Jones, and we want to be different without being over the top. Here are some names we picked out. Let me know if you believe these names could be harmful for our child's potential career path.

For a boy:

Jamead
Tykel
Lyedeen
Rydell
Quan
Day'kwan
Malqued

For a girl:

Shadqueesh
Kydeera
Rytanna
Quadrina
Likeema
Kinyadta
Nildonna
Keisharda

Answer 1

Name your child what you want to name them. Many of the names you have mentioned are exotic, original and pretty.
I have heard of employers discriminating against people based on the name on a job applications because the name sounded 'ethnic' (20/20? did expose on this I believe) so I do understand your concern. However, any potential employer who is going to make a judgement based on a name is probaly not one you future child would want to work for anyway
Furthermore since Jones is a very common surname an unusual firstname is nice.

Answer 2

Totally, absolutely agree with the last poster who also gave you great advice on the rght steps to take. At first I was thinking, "Of course he can stop his child leaving the country. But then I read the part about the only seeing his child once a month when you are basically offering him unlimited visitation....what is he thinking???!!! I would be really pissed off over this too! You can't make any plans for your life because of a father who barely makes an effort. If he were regularly visiting her, then it would be in her best interest to be around her Dad and have him involved in her life, but it seems like he doesn't even care. It's like he has a hold over your life when he doesn't even care that much about his daughter. It's like you can't have a life because he might feel like coming around to see her.. Yeah, I would be enraged over this. Do what the last poster said though, because you could get in real trouble for just taking her.

Answer 3

They all are hard to spell and pronounce so will hold the child back. 40 years ago studies were done as blind test of school teachers the kids with names like Susie and Tommy got higher grades that the exact same test with kids with less normal names. Now of course Susie and tommy would be Katelyn and Kyle or something but people over your children the first 30-50 years will be older and like older names.

Answer 4

I wouldn't worry about it,just pick the name you like the best. There is an interesting story (its true) where a father named his first kid "winner" and for whatever reason named his second kid "loser". The first kid ended up in and out of jail his entire life and never really accomplished anything. The second kid (everyone called him "Lou") became a police detective and has had a pretty successful life.

The point its not the name that makes the person its so many other things.

Answer 5

Good heavens - are you serious? What has the poor child done to you that you would saddle it with a sobriquet such as this? Rydell and Tykel sound like a truck rental company; Quadrina, Malqued and Quan sound like prescription medications; and Shadqueesh sounds like the noise one's sneakers make in a mud puddle. We won't even start with Kinyadta....

S/he won't have to worry about getting a job since it will probably take until college before they can spell their own name.

Answer 6

Most of them could be disasterous in so many ways for your child, socially as well as professionally. Kids with find a way to make a real nasty rhyme with some of those names, I'm sure. Rydell is the only one that doesn't sound totally bizarre.

Answer 7

Several of these sound African. African-sounding names are more common for African-Americans than for white Americans. This could be a problem if the person does not want everyone who knows his or her name but has not seen him or her to think that he or she is African-American. That applies regardless of the child's actual race.

Answer 8

I don't think those names would prevent them from getting a job. I've seen people with about half of those names working at McDonalds.

Answer 9

This sounds like a sociology project. I think maybe I had to do an assignment like this once. No wait...I read Freakanomics and something like this was in there.

Quadrina would be cool if she was going to grow up to be a math professor.

Answer 10

just give them a middle name if they want something normal. like mary.
then they could be
k. mary jones
if they don't like kinyadta
give the kid the option of a normal and a strange name.