does the name you are given at birth have any sway in how you life will turn out?

Question

My first name is Lucifer my middle name is Mark

Answer 1

Nope, words mean nothing, while silence is golden.

Actions will determine your character, not your name.

Answer 2

I think it absolutely can sway how you'll turn out. I have a difficult French name born and raised in America. It's been difficult all my life - correcting people all the time, having kids make fun of me when I was young. I grew up fairly self-conscious about it and shy. For this reason, I purposely named my children normal American names.

Answer 3

You have a beautiful name. Yes, our names affect our outcome and personalities. Lucifer means illuminator of the soul. I'm not sure about Mark.

My name is actually ancient Sumerian. Still tracking on the exact meaning of it. I've narrowed it down to 2.

Answer 4

I've heard or read that it does. I would put 'Lucifer' aside and use 'Mark,' I think. My legal name now was not my birth name. Very early in my career I was obliged by the actor's union to use a stage name which became my legal name--it was not Yank, which is my YahooAnswers nickname.

Answer 5

LOLOL ... absolutely "yes"

I rmemeber hearing in college: "a person's name is the single most powerful influence on a chiold's personality develpopement" ... maybe that was hype ... I duuno

"Boy named Sue" ... J Cash song

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A person's name has an impact on the process of building a self-concept because the name helps determine the messages other people send the child.

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Apart from giving a person an identity, names also shape personalities and affect personal growth in ways both subtle and strange. But while some of us consciously realize it, others don't spare it any thought

I spent most of my life explaining the meaning and repeating the spelling of my name, yet I would never consider changing it. Quirky, difficult, exotic, but I fell my name is an intrinsic part of me.
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Answer 6

Onlyh some names:
the sterotypical

Prescott: banker with bowtie
Lester: lingerie salesmen with preference for polyester
Norman: old man wearing suspenders, commoner at IHOP
Billy: Overalls, farmer
Thaddeus, Odysseus: nerd asking for a beating
Dick: do i need to elaborate?
Lucifer: Good luck with that...

Answer 7

The book Freakonomics covers this in great detail, actually. You should read it. The book concludes that no, it doesn't, but there was a study that in some African culture, people are named after the day of the week they're born on, and since Wednesday also means Violent, that men named Wednesday are more likely to be violent. So who knows. I think you are what you choose to be, and if you choose to think of yourself as the anti-christ, that's what you'll bring on yourself.

Answer 8

No. Read the book "Freakonomics" in which the story is told of a guy who named his kids Winner and Loser. Winner turns out to be a life-long criminal and Loser ("Lou") a decorated police officer. This is just one example. Your name has less impact on you than other factors, such as your parents' education and economic status.

Answer 9

Yes, it does. People named Alicia are always ugly for instance. But I think this is also scientifically explainable. Perhaps it has something to do with the parents being ugly, or in the case of the name, Melvin, they are nerdy parents. So they tend to think of names that people normally associate with ugly or nerdy people... etcetera.

Answer 10

If it does you be in biiiig trouble!

Choose Mark and nix the Lucifer and thank your parents for a cursed name. (not) What were they thinking?

Answer 11

In your case its true. I do believe this, I have little boy named Jacob, and the name means trickster, and boy does he live up to it.

Every single mother I have met with a kid with that name says her Jake is a handful.