Whats Your Name? I can tell you all about yourself, your personality, health and much more just from your full legal name.
Surely your name is nothing more than a collection of random letters that your parents chose for you for whatever reason? (Perhaps they named you after a favourite relative, or someone famous, or maybe they named you after a name in a song?) Your name cant really have any effect on you or your health, career and relationships can it? That sounds so far-fetched. And how could it possibly affect what happens to you in your life?
Well, an article that appeared in a Scottish newspaper last summer (July 2006) seemed to think that names have some effect their article reported that according to some research into car crashes, young men with the name Ben were the most likely to have a car accident.
I was asked to comment on this later that day on Radio 2 in my capacity as a Name Analyst. My first reaction was Ridiculous! Of course that is all just coincidence! However, I then analysed the name Ben and also Benjamin prior to the interview, and some interesting things came up. The name Ben indicates someone very caring, loving and thoughtful....