Do you think that a persons name affects their personality?

Question

Are peoples name the foundation of their personality? For instance if your name is George would your personality be different if you name was Joe?

Answer 1

Very few people actually look up the meaning of a name anymore. So no on average I do not. Although you could be trained from your youth or maybe tricked into believing you are something you are not, as you got older the real you would eventually come out. As the old saying goes be true to yourself.

Answer 2

I real think it does, especially if the child has been given a unfamiliar name and is teased big time because of it at school. Sometimes its not the name bit the initials that make something which children then set about teasing the poor person. Its this teasing that does alot of harm and changes the persons character.

Answer 3

Names are only to identified.
It might dislike some one, but not affect his (her) personality at all.

In USA nobody like long names or foreign names,in this case is because the pronunciation.
like Francesco- Frank, Alfonso-Al, conchetta-Conny,etc.

Answer 4

I don't think so. I think the reason you asked is probably that you've started associating names and personalities. You've started to think that a "George" is a certain type of person, because you know a George, and he is a certain type of person.