whats in a name?

[Kevinshouse]

My daughter is a teacher and tells me that she has noticed over the years that the children usually suit their names. For instance most Josephs (there must be exceptions) are usually hard working and very polite, where as Jacks are usually real characters and the class joker, just wondered if any rootschatters out there share her thoughts (she teaches at an all boys school by the way).
Kind regards Susan

[heywood]

I think there were a lot of Waynes who were much maligned a few years ago   
I noticed several years ago now, that there were what I would call 'made up ' names in school but after a while there were several others of the same name, their parents having heard of the 'new' names, I suppose.
I recall once when I had 4 children called Jamie in my class plus two  Jamie Lee - one boy and one girl.
On the other hand, my grandchildren have friends called George, Sam, Harry, Jack etc -all under 11 years and yesterday someone told me of their young grandchild with a middle name of Albert.
heywood 

[Finley 1]

My grandkids names are mostly taken from previous generations  but altered slightly... which I think is great.

Xin

[GailS]

My husbands name is Jason and it suits him to a T 

When I was pregnant with oldest daughter we knew by the scan we were having a girl, we had Katherine all picked out for her but when she was born she just did'nt look like a Katherine.

[Monaro Area NSW]

Hiya,
Not really,,,
as a mum of 5 and foster mum of 12,,,,,seen all names and didn't notice much of a pattern...

[LizzieW]

For some reason, we had picked Julian as the name of our 3rd son (didn't know the baby would be a boy at the time).  In those days, the registrar used to come to the maternity hospital so that mums could register the baby without hassle and off I went to register the baby as Julian.  Just as I got to the office door, I thought I can't call him Julian, I'll call him Howard.  Where that thought came from I have no idea and I didn't have time to discuss it with my husband.  He wasn't unduly worried though.

Now if you could see my son, you would know he is definitely not a Julian and definitely a Howard, which in my mind is a man's man.  He says if we had called him Julian he would have changed the name himself.

Lizzie

ps.  I haven't found another Howard in my family tree at all.  In fact of my 5 children, only one, Robert, has a name found in my tree and of the half dozen or so Roberts, there are only 2 in my direct line.

[Siamese Girl]

Ah, but do the names suit the children or do the children grow to suit their names?

Carole

[cuthie]

We didn't know what sex our unborn baby was (people didn't in those days) and we had chosen a couple of names for either sex.  However, when the nurse put the baby into my arms and said we'd had a boy, the names we had chosen all seemed so unsuitable.

When I looked at the baby it seemed so clear that his name should be Gordon.  My husband was shown into the room not knowing if we'd had a boy or a girl and I told him we'd had a baby boy named Gordon.  Luckily he liked that name as I am sure I couldn't have changed it to another name

Cuthie.

[Lloydy]

For instance most Josephs (there must be exceptions) are usually hard working and very polite,

My son Joe is extremely polite, and can be hard working when he wants to be

where as Jacks are usually real characters and the class joker

Describes my son Jack perfectly