Boys in the United States with common names like Michael and David are less likely to commit crimes than those named Ernest or Ivan.


David E. Kalist and Daniel Y. Lee of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania compared the first names of male juvenile delinquents to the first names of male juveniles in the population. The researchers constructed a popularity-name index (PNI) for each name. For example, the PNI for Michael is 100, the most frequently given name during the period. The PNI for David is 50, a name given half as frequently as Michael. The PNI is approximately 1 for names such as Alec, Ernest, Ivan, Kareem, and Malcolm.


Results show that, regardless of race, juveniles with unpopular names are more likely to engage in criminal activity. The least popular names were associated with juvenile delinquency among both blacks and whites.




Ummm, choose your child's name carefully?

Sounds a bit far fetched to me.

Well, that explains my cousin Horst...

With a name like that he must be on death row.

Now they tell me.......

that coulda saved my son lots of trouble if I had known yrs ago.....

Poor lil....Al Capone Jones.........

15 to life all in a .........name......

If that's true, and it may be...what about women with bad or unusual names? Or names kids make fun of? Anyone do a study of female criminals?

Name your kid Farnicus...all your problems healed.

Even worse is giving a boy the middle name Wayne. Check out this list of those CONVICTED of MURDER with the middle name Wayne.

www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html

HUM dunno But at 1 time I dateed a michael david..he was a pain in the a*s..let me tell 1st hand..

ive got a common name and i screwed up beyond most. im 21 and have been to jail 5 times already and now im on probation.. thank god im already in school

ok weird but true..1st name heather-a wild flower 2nd (middle) rochelle- little rock..if you put the meaning together you get a flowering little rock..I am 4 ft 9 in,, my mom named me well