I knew a Xavier once. He looked like a durian. Now whenever I hear that name I get weirdly repulsed? No that’s too strong of a word but it’ll do I guess.
@@miyamiya1726 ya u have a good point. What if certain things that happen in a select amount of ppls lives cause them to associate a face and name together
More anxiety for less common names doesn’t surprise me at all, u spend ur whole childhood awkwardly correcting prononciation of authority figures and deal with peers making fun of or at least commenting on ur name
Honestly at this point i don't care how people pronounce my name, I just respond to everything that sounds remotely similar, or I completely ignore people.
Very true for me, I grew up constantly correcting people, and struggled with anxiety all through my teens and early 20’s. I love my unique name though, it’s Seneca:) I would’ve never guessed there was some correlation!
I'm French and my dad wanted to call me France. Not because he's a chauvinist but because he really found that it sounded sweet. Now imagine if I had to spend a life introducing myself as France, from France. So embarrassing
Fiona from the series Shameless is my inspiration if I ever was to name my kid like this. She is such a great character with power and nurturing abilities. Love her.
Fun fact: In 1958, a New York man named Robert Lane decided to name his son "Winner". Three years later, he had another son who he named "Loser". "Winner" became a hardened criminal and "Loser" became a detective.
Omg. I know a Kyle. Gangly, skinny, white with disheveled hair. He has a nicotine addiction and as he puts it: monsieur I'm not very good in academics.
I'm from a spanish-speaking country, so I don't actually know any, but I instantly tough of Kyle Mooney, a comedian from SNL that looks exactly like that.
I know this comment is a joke but I bet if there are any kids that have actually been named after XÆ A-Xii (and I know there will be some Epic Redditor Big Chungus elon fans that have done so), they'll end up being really similar because the parents that bring them up will all be on identical scales of "quirky" elon fan
i kind of noticed that when i am referred to by my birth name i am more quiet, shy, and soft spoken. But when i am called by my chosen name i am more bold, out spoken, and more extroverted
I was waiting for a trans person in the comments! Figured it’s super relevant seeing as a lot of trans people change their names. I’d love to see a section of this video talk about it
@@GoldenBoyDims I probably shouldn’t have assumed, but given that saying things like your ‘birth name’ and ‘chosen name’ are pretty common in the trans community it seemed likely
I work as a supply teacher and let me tell you that, in England at least, Johns are in serious decline. Last year I was working in a two-campus secondary school without one single John. Seriously, I checked the database. Plenty of Jaydens, Caydens and Haydens though. And 'Kasey May' in every possible spelling for the girls.
not john, since most ppl dont use that name, but i think that maybe ppl find popular names prettier or stronger or whatever, and so does everyone else. or maybe they just want their child to fit in
Same! We are probably conditioned by the part of the world we come from. What then ... American names all seem short and phonetically all the same. Nick, Rick, pic, sick, rip, dip, sip XD I'm sorry.
"our facial features actually change over the years to represent our expectations of how we should look" This makes so much sense!! So if I expect to not look good, I actually wont - but if I start expecting to be beautiful I will be?.. wow
not really i used snapchat filters in all of my early teenage years and thought i was actually pretty but when i looked at myself in the mirror and photos without filters I couldn't accept that im really ugly. so i dont think expectations really work it will just affect your perception of yourself and then mess up your mental health when that perception fades for some reason
Another possible theory is that, certain parents who look a certain way may have the tendency to prefer certain names for their child. For example, a goofy and simple parent who is average looking and doesn't care too much about their attractiveness may give their child some generic names like Bob or Dan. Then their child will inherit their parents looks.
I think it's the round O and the general roundness of frogs that makes it work. Plus toads, they're a bit more ugly than frogs and I think the name reflects that (I still love toads too)
The word frog is short and round a little bit unusual (not many words sound like frog in daily conversation) ... and so are frogs! Short round and unusual
Sometimes one of my friends calls me Ophelia (he thinks it could be the best name for me in English😂) & I like the way he says it😇 Serafina sounds enchanted and fantasy-like. Conclusion: Your name is unique and I kinda like it.
My name is Shalishah. Many people assume it’s ghetto and made up. But it’s not...it’s Biblical. I do believe when I tell people this it changes their perspective of me.
Yeah I'm a blonde blue eyed white guy with a name that people assume is black. I rarely get called back on applications but when i get interviews i usually get the job. It's bizarre. I also randomly qualified for an ethnic scholarship in college. I'm naming my kid something that fits their ethnicity.
my parents thought it would be cute to give me a completely unique and difficult to spell name bc it'd make me special, but rather it set me up for a lifetime of constantly correcting people and repeating it over and over till they get it
When I joined the military, I had to get used to being called by my last name. It was strange at first, but then as I got used it, it started feeling like separate personalities. Ultimately, I was able to put on and take off the military mindset with the name and uniform.
As a person with a rare and difficult to pronounce name, I find myself subconsciously drawn to people in the same boat. I feel more connected to them. Like we’re in a secret club that common named people aren’t in and will never understand.
@@keeshy I’ve heard of the occasional other Elisheva in roundabout ways like this, but I’ve never actually met one personally and I’ve always struggled explaining it to people with no Jewish background. I don’t think I’ve ever met an Acacia so I’m sure I would be drawn to you too lol
lowkey I think it would be cool to hang out with someone who has an uncommon name, unfortunately I don't really get along with those people who do and most people have very common names here
my grandad would make a really good case study for this effect. he was named vincent after saint vincent de paul. just like saint vincent, he grew up in poverty, was great at literacy, and was the only one of his siblings who continued school past the age of 15. i doubt anyone will see this but i find the correlations so fascinating ngl.
My brother's name is pronounced kevin but is spelled kavin. Kid has depression, is the youngest, is the shiest, and is a pushover. I'm the oldest and definitely more controlling, and usually demand for the things to be done a certain way. I have control issues and anxiety when things are going to plan. Anyway, kavin, not a douche.
I remember noticing that people looked like their names when I was really little and I used to ask my parents for the other names they would have named me and imagined what I would look like if I had that name
my mother decided how she's gonna name me when she was little so that was pretty much certain, but i remember wonderig how different i would be if my second name was my first one
My name (Dora) actually has Greek origins, but if I told someone from the internet they would associate me with a latina cartoon character. The media very much shapes perceptions of names. (I don't look latina btw)
@@Jennifahh It’s not stupid, a typical latina has dark hair, dark eyes and tan skin. I look like that and while traveling many people have assumed I’m either spanish or italian. There’s nothing stupid or offensive about that, people from different countries tend to look different. So you’re a pale blonde, whatever. That doesn’t change statistics.
This is so terribly interesting. I've been wondering about this my whole life. Growing up in Japan as an Andrew pronounced Andoryuu, I've noticed a difference not only in the facial muscles used when I speak Japanese vs English, but also changes in my countenance and personality depending on the language I'm conversing in. You've given me great resources to look further consider.
Same here, when I lived in Taiwan my name was Mina which sounds cuter than my English name. My Chinese speaking friends often consider me to have a cute personality whereas my American friends wouldn't describe my personality as cute, I think language can make a difference in personality as well as name.
@@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594 its very different tho because Japanese dont have a one letter alphabet like us it's alot of 2 letter sounds usually put together to make a word and they struggle with pronouncing some letters western people use.
I'm not a native English speaker but I also feel that my personality changes when I speak in English compared to my native language. My voice sounds different as well, which is interesting.
NAAA THE SECOND I SAW THAT BOUBA KIKI THING MY BRAIN SAID "this is uncomfortable to look at" and when he swapped them that shit just clicked as correct in my brain. straight fuckin proof right there.
"More anxiety and neuroticism were attributed to those with less common names" I swear the anxiety i always have when i am saying my name to someone new and then they heard it almost everytime wrong🤦♀️
Same, I actually changed mine because I couldn't handle having a foreign weird masculine sounding one in a western country. I was bullied for it a lot as a kid and it got to the point where I dreaded travelling and meeting new people and I just voluntarily made myself an outsider. THAT'S how much a name affects your child, parents!!
Same, m'y name Is Noel (spelled like that ) and It Is not Common in argentina (specially because Santa Claus Is called papá Noel hère and It Is a unisex name).
That's why some people stand out even just by hearing their name: Beyoncé, Rihanna, Shakira, Zendaya, Dua Lipa, Selena. Now I think I should give my child a rare name and see what they can do about it, no pressure tho.
Interesting. I find that almost all male names that begin with a J makes me think of a cool teenage boy who likes skating, wears skinny jeans and play guitar in a band. Even more so if A comes after. You know, names like Jack, Jason, Jared, Jayden etc.
I think just a lot of good looking young guys have J names for whatever reasons lol. Josh/Joshua, James, Jacob, Jake, John, Justin, Jack, etc. It's an obvious trend that I can't unsee.
In my opinion a good smile has to do a lot with the expression of the eyes because they mostly show ones true emotions, less than with what your teeth look like For example if someone has a cold look in their eyes and smiles it seems kinda weird and creepy The smile suddenly doesn't match their actual emotion and it feels off suddenly making them seem less sympathetic
Are you telling me that when I entered school and they asked what my nickname was (original name: Annabel) and I said 'Annie' that that literally shaped who I am as a person and had I said 'Anne' (the name I had always wanted to go by because of the famous five's Anne) I might LITERALLY style myself differently?
I was "Shaine" till high school. And now in college, I go by "LJ". It's amazing how your name can affect people's perception about you and their treatment towards you.
That happened to my daughter. There were 2 Melanies in her 1st grade class. The teacher called my daughter "Mel". I told her not to bc i didnt name my daughter that. But she told me it was easier for her as the teacher (whaaaat??) Well it followed my daughter all thru school. I believe it shaped her. She was so unlike me..she turned into a tomboy. Thats ok, but darn that teacher...i gave my daughter a pretty name for a reason.
@@missygee531 theres nothing wrong in the teachers logic though. there wer two girls with the same name and so one had to be shortened anyway, its pure coincidence your daughter was chosen instead of the other but theres nothng wrong with being a tomboy. i doubt that it was JUST her name that influenced that lol
@@chibijennie4564 thats what i said - nothing wrong with being a tomboy "thats ok"(??) but my daughter mentioned the name incident a short time ago. She remembered it like it was yesterday. She didnt like it. I believe a child has a right to be called by their given name and not a name 'given' by someone else. The other Melanie had some developmental issue and the teacher felt drawn to help her. My daughter had no issues til the name Mel stuck. The kids teased her about her 'boy' name. I knew it wud happen. Well what came next?? A child that was confident and really pretty turned inward. Then came the child that felt she wasnt accepted very well by her peers. No dear, not ok to change someone's name bc u the teacher isnt sharp enough to keep things straight.
Fun fact : In Indonesia if a baby who is just born got sick, sometimes we would consider that the name is "too heavy" for the child and need to be changed. Funnily enough after the renaming the baby would be cured. Everytime I heard it from friends' experience, I would look at my friend's face and think, no, I can't imagine them being named by their former name. Ofc it's probably just a coincidence, but I thought it's pretty neat
In my country (Indonesia), sometimes parents change their child's name because of 'keberatan nama'. It basically means the name carries too much burden to the name owner. Parents change their child's name when their child constantly sick. I don't know if there's any criteria for the weigh of someone's name 😅 The last time I know someone who did this was 11 years ago lol
YES!! THIS HAPPENED IN MY PLACE TOO!! I'M FROM NTT THEY DID THIS TOO IF YOU'RE CONSTANTLY SICK ALL THE TIME. AND THE CHILD'S NAME WILL CHANGE TO THEIR GRANPA/GRANDMA NAME
This reminds of this one day 8 years ago, when an entire class, including myself, thought this one girl was named Mitchy. This girl never said what her name was, but everyone just assumed her name was Mitchy. When a student called her by the name Mitchy, we were all shocked to learn her name was actually Elizabeth, and we didn't think it matched how she looked, it seemed off. But then she explained that she prefers to go by Lizzy, and we all agreed that matched her face a lot more. I don't know, it still amazes me how everyone thought she looked like a Mitchy. Needless to say Lizzy was very confused that day.
@@allthingslexi6046 She actually did look a little bit like Mitchy from Camp Rock when I think about it. But I don't think that was on any of our minds at the time as we were in the middle taking one of the standardized tests.
I remember when I was younger , my sister and I would say , for example , that the girl over there looks like a Katie or that a boy we saw on the street looks like a Kevin . It was really strange , and kind of doesn’t make sense , but I guess we associated some features to specific names , and weirdly synced these thoughts despite a two year difference
My sister and I did that once while we were waiting in a long queue 😂 I feel like it worked for a while but there was a lot of arguing to agree on a common name lol
@@yusurkassem4174 I don’t think we ever argued about it , it was more like , “ omg wasn’t she such a ... Lucy “ ma sister “ nah she defiantly a Maddy “ me - “ oh ye , she does look more like a Maddy “ lolol 😂
There's a huge class aspect to this that shouldn't be forgotten. In France, english-sounding names like Kevin, Jordan, Steven, Jessica, Beverly, etc are usually associated with being stupid. The reason behind this is that these names are usually given by poorer parents to their kids, usually because working class moms in the 80s and 90s were often fans of cheesy american tv shows where the protagonists had those names. Of course, kids with those names are not stupid, at least not all of them. However, studies have found that Kevins, for example, had the lowest grades in the country and were the least likely to graduate. Unfortunately, since class is usually linked to how well you do in school, and since your name is basically a class "tag", people will be quick to judge your intelligence and your success based on the name you were given.
i changed my name when i turned 18 and it's a nickname my friends gave me. i feel like i did this backwards, giving myself a name that fits me better. i love it and would 100% recommend. life's too short for boring names or names that don't sit right with you
For the people with unusual or uncommon names, I think it would be interesting to finally meet someone with the same name and see if you’re alike at all
Interestingly the name “Kevin” is in Germany somehow perceived as someone being more stupid.. So if you ever plan to raise your child in Germany do your kids a favor and don’t name them Kevin 😅 it even got that far that in 2018, people named Kevin protested a dictionary’s pick as Kevin being the “young’s people insult word” of the year :/ (edit: Does anyone actually know where this association in so many European countries stems from?🤔 I always wondered why...)
I’ve been serious about skin care, especially sun protection, all my adult life. People assume that I’m younger than my chronological age because of the lack of sun damage to my skin. Sometimes I make a joke about how I have a portrait in my attic that looks horrible....and nobody gets it. So....Thanks for mentioning "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
@@kathrinat9824 So simple, so easy, so cheap! I don’t leave the house during daylight hours, even to take out the trash, without at least a sunscreen of 10-25 SPF on my face and arms. I wear brimmed hats outside when I can. And I stopped smoking at the age of 29. Hadn’t been a heavy smoker anyway, but I feared those fine nicotine wrinkles far more than lung cancer!
How we are called totally affects our personality: in middle school, there were a lot of girls with my name, so people called me by my last one, and I behaved kinda accordingly (?), until it started bothering me, because being called by your surname passes a cool and fun vibe, which was not what I wanted. In the last year of middle school, I was transferred to a different one, where there weren't any "Giovana"s. Then, as there I was perceived as differently, I behaved differently. Idk, I actually don't think I look like my name. Some people say I look like a Pamela.
I give my book characters far out names to bypass the stereotypical imagined faces that names create in a reader’s mind. I like to think it makes my readers pay more attention to the character descriptions or that they becoming more aware that they might be bias based on what they’ve always assumed about the protagonist, antagonist or other characters in stories.
I do the same too without realizing it. I want my characters to have names that gives depth to them or, the opposite of who they are. It’s fun. This video gave me a good insight!
I never felt an emotional connection to my name. Two former boyfriends apparently felt the same and said my name didn’t fit me....so much so, that they independently gave me names that better fit me (in their opinions).
@@dorrolorro so true! I’m already “branded” by my name which is very “cheerleader” like. Not a bad thing but it’s almost the complete opposite of my life which is a nerdy Happy bookworm world explorer 🤣
@@zzzcocopepe You would think they would have chosen my middle name, but no: one named me Samantha and the other (I married him twice) called me Sakile (Sah-KEY-lay) an KiSwahile (African) name....
@@davyddocarmocabral2989 plus you don’t even have to be non-binary to change your name, just go through the legal papers and your name will be legally different
@@fjdjzfhrsut8063 He is the character from friends who tells his friend Chandler if he ever changed his name to "Clint", he can never pull it off cause he isn't cool enough, so just as the narrator says "one looks like their name"
I think meaning of a name also plays a big role. My parents named me Shahad (meaning honey), and told me the meaning of my name quite early on. Growing up I found myself striving to be as nice and sweet as possible, so that my personality would reflect my name. Even if there were people I originally disliked. I had the tendency to go that extra mile just to make sure they liked me.
I believe this too So I gave my daughter the name I liked most, connected with the most Her name means Hope in Arabic I knew she'd grow to look like her name and she did 🥰
Hahhaha at first I understood your comment as saying "daughter I liked the most, connected with the most" and thought wow most mothers hide their preferential treatment of one lf the kids they like best, this one is proud of admitting it... lol
I was telling my girl friends about how I feel like if I had a different name I wouldn't be who I am today, and they just wouldn't understand it. I always thought it had an impact on people so it's nice to see that this actually exists
Somebody once told me that I didn’t look like a Diego, but an Oscar. The people I’ve told the story to agreed him, however, no one else has ever said something similar.
i love when science finally confirms magical logic. the name is the very essence of the thing, this is something we've always intuitively known but couldn't prove.
This is interesting because my own name came to my mom in a dream. When I was pregnant with my first child, I had a dream where I was presented with his name: Gabriel. I would’ve gone with that name, but my husband didn’t like the nickname Gabe. We named him what we originally picked: Wolfgang (goes by Wolfie). They are such different names and I can’t help if people (including myself) would think he was more of an “angel” if he went by Gabriel. We use that name from time to time and call it his angel name (we are absolutely NOT catholic/Christian, btw, but the cultural associations with an archangel is noted) and I can see his personality shift when we call him Gabriel and he’s only 6. He gets kind of sparkly - can’t describe it. Maybe it’s not about the name Gabriel but about how it came in a dream. Though it is a much softer name than “path of the wolf” German Wolfgang. My second child’s name also came in a dream, except it was she telling me her name loud and clear (Iris, we call her Riri). Regretfully, when I was a kid I wanted to name my girl Siri, which means star in Swedish. My mom is 100% swedish and my aunts would always say that Siri was a beautiful name for a girl. My husband is an iPhone programmer so that would be pretty ridiculous. Turns out Apple picked Siri is simply because it is Iris spelled backwards - Iris was the name of a robot on another smart phone that was the predecessor of Siri. We did not know that until after she was born. Will my kids grow up to be weird dreamy eccentric nature people because of their names? I’m assuming yes. It happened to me - and yeah it’s connected to me name.
i like the name Wolfgang, but are you located in Germany? because here it is more the name of a middle aged man. But who knows, maybe it is fashionable again and i just don't know because i am not in the circles with young families. Gabriel is a name that is charged with meaning
This is fascinating. Someone once told me that my name suits me, and I thought it was interesting because I never really gave much thought to my name being a part of me
Living life as an Alexandre in the midwestern USA has really instilled a matrix of complexes about who my ideal self is. If it weren't for my last name being such a powerfully down to earth statement my first two names 'Alexandre Etienne' would have had free reign in guiding me toward a life of ego-maniacal villainy.
Woah 👀 So my given name is Jacob but for the last 5 years almost all my friends have called me Jason (started as a joke but immediately stuck), and past teachers have occasionally mistaken me for a Josh. The array of faces at 8:00 is pretty crazy because I could immediately see that I look most like the Jason face, followed by Josh
Wow, I never thought I would hear my name in a QOVES Studio video! (Saoirse here!)😊My name is common where I live, so not many people pronounce it wrong, but people from other areas have a really hard time pronouncing it!😅
Crazy how this works, my parents actually named my sister after someone solely because they thought she was beautiful (Vanessa Williams btw and they're not wrong she's gorgeous) so she subconsciously always keeps up her appearance where as I'm named after both of my grandmothers and not only so I look weirdly like both of them but I just happen to have a lot of their same interests and taste in things
"more anxiety and neuroticism were attributed to less common names.." My parents found a name in a foreign language and then added a twist to the spelling so I've never seen anyone else with my name..constantly having to spell it and pronounce it, and explain where the heck it came from really did a number on me. To this day I hate introductions and meeting new people 😞
so that's why people treat me differently based on what name i tell them 😐 my name's adonis but i used to prefer using donny in introductions bc it seemed more "friendly" sounding and those people said their impressions of me were fun and friendly. but ever since i started using adonis the impressions i got were: serious, intimidating, uptight even lmao
I've been wanting a video like this a long time...I always knew that names had something to do with someone's personality. If I heard a name I could create a profile on someone and usually be correct about it, almost as if I had a superpower. Awesome and informative video thank you!
This makes sense. I am an identical twin. I have softer features than my sister... and I ironically have a softer name. I knew another set of twins who didn’t look like their names. They were identical but easy enough to tell apart, however their names should have been swapped. The confusion wasn’t in my inability to physically tell them apart, but because I wanted to call each one by the name I felt fit better.
There's a book by Rosa María Palacios called "La magia de tu nombre" which explains how your name influences your character and personality. It involves aspects of numerology...those kinds of stuff. E.x the name Patricia because it has 2 i's it makes the person prone to anxiety and mental disorders. She verifies there's a lots of patients with that name in consulting. Some names she recommends for a man are Alejandro, André, Salvador.
That is a nonsense meaning though. It's not because it has two i 's. That's obviously a fabrication to everyone. It's okay to say that we don't know why something is the way it is. We don't know everything. That's okay.
This would explain why I felt the need to change my name when I escaped my bad childhood environment. I really feel like my original birthname is not my name. I hate the sound of it, I hate saying it. It feels like a bad word because people were so hateful towards me
I've heard this effect also called "stereotype threat" in other contexts. Like, if you're repeated told you are born a "Scorpio" or a "Leo" or "Zebra" or whatever, because of a superstitious belief system that assigns personal expectations and fortunes to people based on a relative view of distant planets and imagined symbolic shapes drawn between stars as seen from Earth on our birthday.... this can actually influence how you think of yourself and how your personality develops, and informs conscious choices too the more you buy into the (in this case baseless) stereotype.
A unique name can have its perks, I worked in a call centre for a grocery store and there was a lady who called in each week to make orders. She said I was the only advisor she remembered because of my name and was always really nice to me 😂
when i meet a stranger (example, charlie) i sometimes say "you look like the most charlie looking charlie ive ever seen" or "charlie looks more charlier than you" because i dont know how to start a conversation
With it becoming more and more common for parents to come up with “unique” / uncommon names, I wonder how this all will change and if the Dorian Effect will still hold, or eventually become moot.
Throwback to the episode where Gumball finds out his real name is Zach and he develops a separate douchey personality
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tthat show lol
Yesss
I love that show
Ohhh yess
Finally found out why all the bad boys on wattpad are named Xavier or Damien
I knew a Xavier once. He looked like a durian. Now whenever I hear that name I get weirdly repulsed? No that’s too strong of a word but it’ll do I guess.
The only Xavier I know is my 60-year-old uncle, who has always been on the overweight side... so IDK.
Transboys unite
And Skylar..
@@rordongamsey3057 durian looks like... peanut?
Idc what anyone says, that guys name was Joseph
I think we can all agree his name was Joseph. Even tho I've never seen a Joseph in my entire life I still guessed Joseph.
@@moistorphan yup, it was meant to be
I wonder if this is evidence of environmental factors contributing to name-face perception
@@miyamiya1726 ya u have a good point. What if certain things that happen in a select amount of ppls lives cause them to associate a face and name together
Agreed
And this is how “Chads” are made.
Chad's are probably made by Karen's for some reason that makes sense to me
Chadwick !
And Karen's 😭
Had to make your comment 1k haha
Ah, so that's why by naming their son "Virgin", he was set up to fail from the get go.
More anxiety for less common names doesn’t surprise me at all, u spend ur whole childhood awkwardly correcting prononciation of authority figures and deal with peers making fun of or at least commenting on ur name
yeah exactly
Honestly at this point i don't care how people pronounce my name, I just respond to everything that sounds remotely similar, or I completely ignore people.
My names less common but i always got a compliment even if people mispronounced my name. So idk
Tell me about it! I hated it and used to cry to my mum about why they gave me such a weird name 😢
Very true for me, I grew up constantly correcting people, and struggled with anxiety all through my teens and early 20’s. I love my unique name though, it’s Seneca:) I would’ve never guessed there was some correlation!
2:17 I’m sorry but that is the least dan looking man I have ever seen
Prolly a Dan to Israelis
He looks like joseph
I think he looks like a joseph too
My answer was Joseph too
Right he was definitely a Josef to me
I'm French and my dad wanted to call me France. Not because he's a chauvinist but because he really found that it sounded sweet. Now imagine if I had to spend a life introducing myself as France, from France. So embarrassing
I Feel you!!. Just I had to change my name.. and I did!
Lucky you, sister!!
Francis/Frances would of been a cute name instead tbh
As a person whose dream is to go to France and just idolise France a lot ... THAT'S THE MOST AWESOME THING 😻
@@ughok8757 Or Francine. Franka is a nice name as well, although everyone would think you are german.
and the other person will say something like. "and I am, London from London" 😭😭
Wonder what Elon Musk's kid will look like...
A Moose. Dont ask me why just my instant reaction to your question.
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acording to the internet,his name is pronounced kyle
@@laninfapimentel311 😂😂😂😂😂 and his baby's name?
@@laninfapimentel311 no it's "Xash".
As a Fiona I feel like every Fiona has some kinda librarian energy.
Whenever I heard fiona i just imagine shrek :')
Fiona... is such a feminine and cool name bc of Shrek...
I think of a beautiful shade of green when I hear Fiona, it also makes me think of these green velvet napkin holder things my grandma use to have
I think of Fiona Apple or Fiona from Shrek and think Fionas are badass
Fiona from the series Shameless is my inspiration if I ever was to name my kid like this. She is such a great character with power and nurturing abilities. Love her.
Perfect example: Thimothée Chalamet, you wont imagine someone looking like Tom Hardy or Jason Statham with that name
Ah yes. Teamoretea Marmalade
Timitè Dekoratè 😂😏
Really ? Im french and the only thimothée i know are tall and skinny
@@theodora1901 for me, all Thimothees I know have freckles!!
@@lilinectar29 and they’re small and have light brown hair and round glasses lol
Does anyone feel weird or awkward when saying their own name??
SAME! My name is hella common but it feels so weird saying it. Like I can't pronounce it properly
Lol, same
Very much
YEAH! And I’m literally a Samuel it’s not a weird name or nothing
Yesss! It's mostly just weird referring to my name and when other people address my by my name
Fun fact: In 1958, a New York man named Robert Lane decided to name his son "Winner". Three years later, he had another son who he named "Loser".
"Winner" became a hardened criminal and "Loser" became a detective.
Wth howw
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font?
The real question is wtf was wrong with that man's mind
So that’s why all kyles weigh 130, wear skinny jeans and vape
And Kyle’s mother is a chain smoker, too.
Omg. I know a Kyle. Gangly, skinny, white with disheveled hair. He has a nicotine addiction and as he puts it: monsieur I'm not very good in academics.
This is interesting I know 6 Kyle’s. Even ones who live 3 hours away so a bit different backgrounds. & ALL of them smoke cigarettes.
I'm from a spanish-speaking country, so I don't actually know any, but I instantly tough of Kyle Mooney, a comedian from SNL that looks exactly like that.
I’m a bodybuilder and my name is Kyle rip😔
X Æ A-Xii: 👽
lmao
😂
Ahhahaahahhaah queen-
I know this comment is a joke but I bet if there are any kids that have actually been named after XÆ A-Xii (and I know there will be some Epic Redditor Big Chungus elon fans that have done so), they'll end up being really similar because the parents that bring them up will all be on identical scales of "quirky" elon fan
Hahaha lmao
i kind of noticed that when i am referred to by my birth name i am more quiet, shy, and soft spoken. But when i am called by my chosen name i am more bold, out spoken, and more extroverted
I was waiting for a trans person in the comments! Figured it’s super relevant seeing as a lot of trans people change their names. I’d love to see a section of this video talk about it
@@bigmanrui3503 I also like going by a different name, but I'm not trans.. I just hate my birth name..
@@bigmanrui3503 Pov: You're trans and looking through the comments for a name stereotype that fits your goals
@@bigmanrui3503 how do you know he/she is trans
@@GoldenBoyDims I probably shouldn’t have assumed, but given that saying things like your ‘birth name’ and ‘chosen name’ are pretty common in the trans community it seemed likely
So this is why Karens always look like Karens... wow
I wanna speat to the manager, _now_
And that's why manager looks like manager....
I so agree! The attitude speaks so loudly!
They even choose similar clothing styles, as if wearing a uniform!
@@snowduck1157 🤣🤣🤣
@Nibbler800 lol
I remember reading this book "Eragon" and one of the lines was "your name could either be a blessing or a curse"
If you liked the book and that line touched you, check out Le Guin's Earthsea series.
@@fruitygarlic3601 thanks for the recommendation 🙏🙏🙏
I've always been pretty sure Paolini just misspelled "dragon" and went "huh, that sounds cool."
Thanks mom and dad :')
Mine is a curse based on where they got it from.
“Everyone wants to give their child a unique name”
Also parents: *J o h n*
I work as a supply teacher and let me tell you that, in England at least, Johns are in serious decline.
Last year I was working in a two-campus secondary school without one single John. Seriously, I checked the database.
Plenty of Jaydens, Caydens and Haydens though. And 'Kasey May' in every possible spelling for the girls.
I think most parents actually want a "normal" name for their child so the child will fit in.
@@pigmingus1363 It is in a serious decline. Used to be the most generic name that was everyone’s name, not anymore
John & bobs
not john, since most ppl dont use that name, but i think that maybe ppl find popular names prettier or stronger or whatever, and so does everyone else. or maybe they just want their child to fit in
Lol my name is jet and I’m a pilot
Oh wow 😀
That’s beautiful
The prophecy was fulfilled
That’s so perfect man my name is Julia and I’m trying to become one 😅
That's sick af lmao
What did you guess pick for that guys name?
I thought he looked like a Josef.
I felt Josef fits his face rather than Dan.
Same!
Same!
Same!
For me looks like a Dan OR Josef, but he looks hotter as a Josef.
Same! We are probably conditioned by the part of the world we come from. What then ... American names all seem short and phonetically all the same. Nick, Rick, pic, sick, rip, dip, sip XD I'm sorry.
"our facial features actually change over the years to represent our expectations of how we should look"
This makes so much sense!! So if I expect to not look good, I actually wont - but if I start expecting to be beautiful I will be?.. wow
Believe in yourself and love yourself, I always did! 💕💕🙌
Yes basically. Also your body (outward appearance) only is a reflection of your thoughts. So feed you mind beautiful thoughts. Love yourself ❤️
not really i used snapchat filters in all of my early teenage years and thought i was actually pretty but when i looked at myself in the mirror and photos without filters I couldn't accept that im really ugly. so i dont think expectations really work it will just affect your perception of yourself and then mess up your mental health when that perception fades for some reason
It is true
It’s basic subliminal science, it’s all in your subconsciousness
Another possible theory is that, certain parents who look a certain way may have the tendency to prefer certain names for their child. For example, a goofy and simple parent who is average looking and doesn't care too much about their attractiveness may give their child some generic names like Bob or Dan. Then their child will inherit their parents looks.
My name is daniel and im a literal clone of my dad
That's exactly what I thought 😂
What an impact it has - giving a name to a child :O
Image you had a different name ^^
This is the true answer
i have my dads name but look like my mom. My dad and I are complete opposites. Only thing we have similar is hands and feet
This reminds me of the twitter post that’s like: whoever names frogs got tha right those things r frogs
I think it's the round O and the general roundness of frogs that makes it work. Plus toads, they're a bit more ugly than frogs and I think the name reflects that (I still love toads too)
wolfs go woof and look so wolfy
@@brynjames3779 should’ve been p h r o g
The word frog is short and round a little bit unusual (not many words sound like frog in daily conversation) ... and so are frogs! Short round and unusual
Worked at a call center and clients always thought my name was either: Pretty, weird, unique, difficult, memorable, or tragic.
😶
@Magic yep, nice name
Sometimes one of my friends calls me Ophelia (he thinks it could be the best name for me in English😂) & I like the way he says it😇
Serafina sounds enchanted and fantasy-like.
Conclusion: Your name is unique and I kinda like it.
Gorgeous, memorable name 👌
My grandma was called Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting of a dead girl lol
Thats why Peter Griffin completely changed when he realised his middlename is Justin.
Lol love the episode
my name is Justin and I'd like to know what episode you are referring to?
@@justinmob224 do you remotely look like Justin from rocket league team nrg?
@@sijenkai3928 I see a bit of a ressemblance...
or Gumball changed when he realized his real name is Zak
My name is Shalishah. Many people assume it’s ghetto and made up. But it’s not...it’s Biblical. I do believe when I tell people this it changes their perspective of me.
You look like a Shalishah.
Yeah I always want that people don’t ask for my name because of that
I like it. It's pretty
Yeah I'm a blonde blue eyed white guy with a name that people assume is black. I rarely get called back on applications but when i get interviews i usually get the job. It's bizarre. I also randomly qualified for an ethnic scholarship in college. I'm naming my kid something that fits their ethnicity.
@@maxamillion2140 Yess good plan for your kids. I got an androgynous, foreign name and its been bothering me ever since i was young
my parents thought it would be cute to give me a completely unique and difficult to spell name bc it'd make me special, but rather it set me up for a lifetime of constantly correcting people and repeating it over and over till they get it
I dont even correct people. People call me Elsie, Alyssa anything except for Elisse.
When I joined the military, I had to get used to being called by my last name. It was strange at first, but then as I got used it, it started feeling like separate personalities. Ultimately, I was able to put on and take off the military mindset with the name and uniform.
I am usually called by surname not name
I do the same thing with teaching!
Interesting
This is part of why they do it.
I grew up in Britain. Teachers always called us by our surnames.
As a person with a rare and difficult to pronounce name, I find myself subconsciously drawn to people in the same boat. I feel more connected to them. Like we’re in a secret club that common named people aren’t in and will never understand.
I had a friend in elementary school with your name! :) Maybe we became friends because we both had unusual names 😄
I haven't met anyone else with the name Elisheva other than my friend. And I haven't met anyone with my name.
@@keeshy I’ve heard of the occasional other Elisheva in roundabout ways like this, but I’ve never actually met one personally and I’ve always struggled explaining it to people with no Jewish background. I don’t think I’ve ever met an Acacia so I’m sure I would be drawn to you too lol
lowkey I think it would be cool to hang out with someone who has an uncommon name, unfortunately I don't really get along with those people who do and most people have very common names here
My name is uncommon, I want to join the club too, but my name is easy to pronounce😞
my grandad would make a really good case study for this effect. he was named vincent after saint vincent de paul. just like saint vincent, he grew up in poverty, was great at literacy, and was the only one of his siblings who continued school past the age of 15. i doubt anyone will see this but i find the correlations so fascinating ngl.
is this why Kevin's are so Kevinish?
Are you from germany?
@@chrissyosozzy6465 Nee leider nicht, hab aber schon viele Kevine(?Kevin in Mehrzahl??¿¿) begegnet...
I feel like all Kevin's are douchebags.
My brother's name is pronounced kevin but is spelled kavin.
Kid has depression, is the youngest, is the shiest, and is a pushover. I'm the oldest and definitely more controlling, and usually demand for the things to be done a certain way. I have control issues and anxiety when things are going to plan.
Anyway, kavin, not a douche.
@@toothless3835 aww 😢
I remember noticing that people looked like their names when I was really little and I used to ask my parents for the other names they would have named me and imagined what I would look like if I had that name
same
my mother decided how she's gonna name me when she was little so that was pretty much certain, but i remember wonderig how different i would be if my second name was my first one
My name (Dora) actually has Greek origins, but if I told someone from the internet they would associate me with a latina cartoon character. The media very much shapes perceptions of names. (I don't look latina btw)
Latinas can be any skin tone, I guess they think that you "act" Latina or something
@@Jennifahh It’s not stupid, a typical latina has dark hair, dark eyes and tan skin. I look like that and while traveling many people have assumed I’m either spanish or italian. There’s nothing stupid or offensive about that, people from different countries tend to look different.
So you’re a pale blonde, whatever. That doesn’t change statistics.
@@Jennifahh Latinas can be from any ethnicity but it is the reality that majority of Latinas have these stereotypical characteristics
@@yYSilverFoxYy Ahm, Spanish and Italian are Europeans and white. Latinas usually refer to folks from South American
Dora the explorer
Abby's are either preppy white girls or goths
Most Abbys I've met are latinas.
Yep the Abby I know is a preppy white girl
Yeah :-)
all the abby's, abi's, abigail's etc. i know are cunts tbh jvsdklv (no offense to anyone called abby though :') ) also jess/jessica's for some reason
Idk in my country Abbygale or Abigail is known as common a middle name...my cousin and I have the same but spelt differently🌚
This is so terribly interesting. I've been wondering about this my whole life. Growing up in Japan as an Andrew pronounced Andoryuu, I've noticed a difference not only in the facial muscles used when I speak Japanese vs English, but also changes in my countenance and personality depending on the language I'm conversing in. You've given me great resources to look further consider.
Language changes perception as well as appearance.
Same here, when I lived in Taiwan my name was Mina which sounds cuter than my English name. My Chinese speaking friends often consider me to have a cute personality whereas my American friends wouldn't describe my personality as cute, I think language can make a difference in personality as well as name.
Uh I like this topic too but using different muscles in your face when you speak in a different language is basically a given.
@@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594 its very different tho because Japanese dont have a one letter alphabet like us it's alot of 2 letter sounds usually put together to make a word and they struggle with pronouncing some letters western people use.
I'm not a native English speaker but I also feel that my personality changes when I speak in English compared to my native language. My voice sounds different as well, which is interesting.
NAAA THE SECOND I SAW THAT BOUBA KIKI THING MY BRAIN SAID "this is uncomfortable to look at" and when he swapped them that shit just clicked as correct in my brain. straight fuckin proof right there.
Yeah. Ball, bounce, bowl. Cut, kick, cat.
Quoves serving up the content I didn’t know I needed. I gotta figure out what to name my kid now
Dont get a kid
Justin or Jason for chadness and hotness
Damon>>>
Hercules
kyle so he can break your wall when you need it
"More anxiety and neuroticism were attributed to those with less common names"
I swear the anxiety i always have when i am saying my name to someone new and then they heard it almost everytime wrong🤦♀️
Same, I actually changed mine because I couldn't handle having a foreign weird masculine sounding one in a western country. I was bullied for it a lot as a kid and it got to the point where I dreaded travelling and meeting new people and I just voluntarily made myself an outsider. THAT'S how much a name affects your child, parents!!
@@ll2058 I can’t imagine that, but I believe you! Leila is a beautiful name- you chose well, would you mind telling what your name was before?
@@ll2058 What was your name tho?
Agreed.......a disappointing reality
Same, m'y name Is Noel (spelled like that ) and It Is not Common in argentina (specially because Santa Claus Is called papá Noel hère and It Is a unisex name).
That's why some people stand out even just by hearing their name: Beyoncé, Rihanna, Shakira, Zendaya, Dua Lipa, Selena. Now I think I should give my child a rare name and see what they can do about it, no pressure tho.
Are those their real names though? Or those their stage names. A lot of famous people change their names
@@vanilla5245 those are their real names
Seems like names ending in "ah" have some higher level for fame heh heh
you'll give em anxiety
@@noneya7880 lemme tell ya something lol
Suggestion: a video about androgyny features
What's androgyny?
@@abner9404 not really looking like a boy or girl, gender neutral
Yessssss✨
Nooo
hell yeahh
All I know is there are specific names where I automatically know everything about you: Chloe, Ashley, etc
:o
Sarah
or sarah
ironic that you're named Sarah LMAO 💀
Hence the dark comedy of the 1980s or 90s, the film _Heathers_.
Interesting. I find that almost all male names that begin with a J makes me think of a cool teenage boy who likes skating, wears skinny jeans and play guitar in a band. Even more so if A comes after. You know, names like Jack, Jason, Jared, Jayden etc.
J is a common boy nickname too. Just the letter. Guys really like it for some reason
I think just a lot of good looking young guys have J names for whatever reasons lol. Josh/Joshua, James, Jacob, Jake, John, Justin, Jack, etc. It's an obvious trend that I can't unsee.
Jonny Depp
My name’s Jules and I pretty much like those things lmao
Or M like Max or Mike
You should do a vid on what makes a good smile because it’s not just teeth that matters
In my opinion a good smile has to do a lot with the expression of the eyes because they mostly show ones true emotions,
less than with what your teeth look like
For example if someone has a cold look in their eyes and smiles it seems kinda weird and creepy
The smile suddenly doesn't match their actual emotion and it feels off suddenly making them seem less sympathetic
I think it's about the shape of your lips and face too
when someone smiles with their whole face
Are you telling me that when I entered school and they asked what my nickname was (original name: Annabel) and I said 'Annie' that that literally shaped who I am as a person and had I said 'Anne' (the name I had always wanted to go by because of the famous five's Anne) I might LITERALLY style myself differently?
So call yourself anne when you go to college!
I was "Shaine" till high school. And now in college, I go by "LJ". It's amazing how your name can affect people's perception about you and their treatment towards you.
That happened to my daughter. There were 2 Melanies in her 1st grade class. The teacher called my daughter "Mel". I told her not to bc i didnt name my daughter that. But she told me it was easier for her as the teacher (whaaaat??) Well it followed my daughter all thru school. I believe it shaped her. She was so unlike me..she turned into a tomboy. Thats ok, but darn that teacher...i gave my daughter a pretty name for a reason.
@@missygee531 theres nothing wrong in the teachers logic though. there wer two girls with the same name and so one had to be shortened anyway, its pure coincidence your daughter was chosen instead of the other but theres nothng wrong with being a tomboy. i doubt that it was JUST her name that influenced that lol
@@chibijennie4564 thats what i said - nothing wrong with being a tomboy "thats ok"(??) but my daughter mentioned the name incident a short time ago. She remembered it like it was yesterday. She didnt like it. I believe a child has a right to be called by their given name and not a name 'given' by someone else. The other Melanie had some developmental issue and the teacher felt drawn to help her. My daughter had no issues til the name Mel stuck. The kids teased her about her 'boy' name. I knew it wud happen. Well what came next?? A child that was confident and really pretty turned inward. Then came the child that felt she wasnt accepted very well by her peers. No dear, not ok to change someone's name bc u the teacher isnt sharp enough to keep things straight.
Fun fact : In Indonesia if a baby who is just born got sick, sometimes we would consider that the name is "too heavy" for the child and need to be changed. Funnily enough after the renaming the baby would be cured. Everytime I heard it from friends' experience, I would look at my friend's face and think, no, I can't imagine them being named by their former name. Ofc it's probably just a coincidence, but I thought it's pretty neat
In my country (Indonesia), sometimes parents change their child's name because of 'keberatan nama'. It basically means the name carries too much burden to the name owner. Parents change their child's name when their child constantly sick. I don't know if there's any criteria for the weigh of someone's name 😅 The last time I know someone who did this was 11 years ago lol
How cool! This is a thing in Jewish culture too 😍
@@sjgee4309 Whoa really? 😮 I learn something new XD
YES!! THIS HAPPENED IN MY PLACE TOO!!
I'M FROM NTT
THEY DID THIS TOO IF YOU'RE CONSTANTLY SICK ALL THE TIME.
AND THE CHILD'S NAME WILL CHANGE TO THEIR GRANPA/GRANDMA NAME
We have this here in Pakistan too! My mom's cousin's name was changed thrice until he finally stopped being sick and unlucky in general
@@monwodah wow.. I thought that it was only in Indonesia😂
High five 🙌🏻🙌🏻
I think that every Vanessa is a extrovert badass girl
Add pretty to the list, all the Vanessa I met were also gorgeous for some reason
My best friend is a vanessa and yes this is short summarization of her lol
Vanessa Doofenshmirtz
I guess I'm not a real Vanessa then lol :D
so much to live up to, so little time
This reminds of this one day 8 years ago, when an entire class, including myself, thought this one girl was named Mitchy. This girl never said what her name was, but everyone just assumed her name was Mitchy. When a student called her by the name Mitchy, we were all shocked to learn her name was actually Elizabeth, and we didn't think it matched how she looked, it seemed off. But then she explained that she prefers to go by Lizzy, and we all agreed that matched her face a lot more. I don't know, it still amazes me how everyone thought she looked like a Mitchy. Needless to say Lizzy was very confused that day.
Mitchie like from camp rock
@@allthingslexi6046 She actually did look a little bit like Mitchy from Camp Rock when I think about it. But I don't think that was on any of our minds at the time as we were in the middle taking one of the standardized tests.
I remember when I was younger , my sister and I would say , for example , that the girl over there looks like a Katie or that a boy we saw on the street looks like a Kevin . It was really strange , and kind of doesn’t make sense , but I guess we associated some features to specific names , and weirdly synced these thoughts despite a two year difference
My sister and I did that once while we were waiting in a long queue 😂
I feel like it worked for a while but there was a lot of arguing to agree on a common name lol
Omg sameeeee
Yes!! I do that too!!
@@yusurkassem4174 I don’t think we ever argued about it , it was more like , “ omg wasn’t she such a ... Lucy “ ma sister “ nah she defiantly a Maddy “ me - “ oh ye , she does look more like a Maddy “ lolol 😂
Yo you watch saiki k?
There's a huge class aspect to this that shouldn't be forgotten. In France, english-sounding names like Kevin, Jordan, Steven, Jessica, Beverly, etc are usually associated with being stupid. The reason behind this is that these names are usually given by poorer parents to their kids, usually because working class moms in the 80s and 90s were often fans of cheesy american tv shows where the protagonists had those names.
Of course, kids with those names are not stupid, at least not all of them. However, studies have found that Kevins, for example, had the lowest grades in the country and were the least likely to graduate. Unfortunately, since class is usually linked to how well you do in school, and since your name is basically a class "tag", people will be quick to judge your intelligence and your success based on the name you were given.
this is probably where the "kyle" stereotype came from
i changed my name when i turned 18 and it's a nickname my friends gave me. i feel like i did this backwards, giving myself a name that fits me better. i love it and would 100% recommend. life's too short for boring names or names that don't sit right with you
For the people with unusual or uncommon names, I think it would be interesting to finally meet someone with the same name and see if you’re alike at all
Interestingly the name “Kevin” is in Germany somehow perceived as someone being more stupid.. So if you ever plan to raise your child in Germany do your kids a favor and don’t name them Kevin 😅
it even got that far that in 2018, people named Kevin protested a dictionary’s pick as Kevin being the “young’s people insult word” of the year :/
(edit: Does anyone actually know where this association in so many European countries stems from?🤔 I always wondered why...)
in France too
Also avoid Adolf/Adolph.🌚
same stereotype in belgium, Kevin here is compareable to the american Kyle
This is the exact same in france 😂
Wow I had no idea that it´s more a European than German thing with the name Kevin 😂
I literally had this theory ever since I was a child, you could always see a pattern between someone's name and their appearance
I’ve been serious about skin care, especially sun protection, all my adult life. People assume that I’m younger than my chronological age because of the lack of sun damage to my skin. Sometimes I make a joke about how I have a portrait in my attic that looks horrible....and nobody gets it. So....Thanks for mentioning "The Picture of Dorian Gray."
Share those skin care tips
@@kathrinat9824 So simple, so easy, so cheap! I don’t leave the house during daylight hours, even to take out the trash, without at least a sunscreen of 10-25 SPF on my face and arms. I wear brimmed hats outside when I can. And I stopped smoking at the age of 29. Hadn’t been a heavy smoker anyway, but I feared those fine nicotine wrinkles far more than lung cancer!
@@spiritmatter1553 imma need to get me a trimmed hat now
@@hunter-xp3nu Do it, you won’t regret it! And depending on your choice, you’ll acquire a stylish retro look as well. 🤠
This is why I want Korean&Japanese style swimwear for sea in my country but I can't find 😿
How we are called totally affects our personality: in middle school, there were a lot of girls with my name, so people called me by my last one, and I behaved kinda accordingly (?), until it started bothering me, because being called by your surname passes a cool and fun vibe, which was not what I wanted. In the last year of middle school, I was transferred to a different one, where there weren't any "Giovana"s. Then, as there I was perceived as differently, I behaved differently. Idk, I actually don't think I look like my name. Some people say I look like a Pamela.
In Sufism it is said all letters have different frequency and energy, and their combination too, so affect.
Yeah you don't look like your name
@@yusurkassem4174 hmm I'd say she does, there is nothing wrong with a giovanna haha
Giovana is an Italian name right? You look Italian
shoutout to all those kids who cant find anything with their name on it in souvenir stores
That's why all the rich kids in India have names like Ahana Aashana and middle class kids have names like Mohan Vijay Adarsh.
My name is Kekoa, and I’m glad my parents gave me my name as I have grown into and and I think it suits me well. 💕
Your name is sooo cute
E R thank you 😊
Is that Hawaiian?
Cucumamacacapipi yes 😊
if I had a little bird with black speckles Id name it Kekoa...Idk why. Sounds like an exotic bird
I give my book characters far out names to bypass the stereotypical imagined faces that names create in a reader’s mind. I like to think it makes my readers pay more attention to the character descriptions or that they becoming more aware that they might be bias based on what they’ve always assumed about the protagonist, antagonist or other characters in stories.
I do the same too without realizing it. I want my characters to have names that gives depth to them or, the opposite of who they are. It’s fun. This video gave me a good insight!
I never felt an emotional connection to my name. Two former boyfriends apparently felt the same and said my name didn’t fit me....so much so, that they independently gave me names that better fit me (in their opinions).
you should give yourself a name that you love
@@dorrolorro so true! I’m already “branded” by my name which is very “cheerleader” like. Not a bad thing but it’s almost the complete opposite of my life which is a nerdy Happy bookworm world explorer 🤣
What about your middle name
@@zzzcocopepe You would think they would have chosen my middle name, but no: one named me Samantha and the other (I married him twice) called me Sakile (Sah-KEY-lay) an KiSwahile (African) name....
The strangest name I've ever heard, MoonLightOnWater is.
"Lindsey Stirling" does sound like someone who'd play a string instrument, lol.
Me, who chose my own name:
Now, reality can be whatever I want
The power you hold is immense
How did you do that?
@@davyddocarmocabral2989 I transitioned to non-binary and didn't like my birth name so I chose another
@@davyddocarmocabral2989 plus you don’t even have to be non-binary to change your name, just go through the legal papers and your name will be legally different
As Joey says - "no way are you cool enough to pull off a Clint"
Who's Joey?
What's a clint?
@@fjdjzfhrsut8063 He is the character from friends who tells his friend Chandler if he ever changed his name to "Clint", he can never pull it off cause he isn't cool enough, so just as the narrator says "one looks like their name"
yeahh
@@fjdjzfhrsut8063 clint eastwood
Just found out Denis means Dionysus - an ancient greek god. That's really cool since I've always loved greek mythology.
you must be fun at parties then
@@alexandriettaavarie1179 ???
@@moommoom6915 u know what 'god of' dionysus is?
@@moommoom6915 wouldve told u but i forgot the exact detail & i cant be bothered to google it, sorry hahahaha
God of wine and parties
I think meaning of a name also plays a big role. My parents named me Shahad (meaning honey), and told me the meaning of my name quite early on. Growing up I found myself striving to be as nice and sweet as possible, so that my personality would reflect my name. Even if there were people I originally disliked. I had the tendency to go that extra mile just to make sure they liked me.
Unless your name means something you can't possibly be.... o_0
My dad named me Nadia just because it sounds pretty and everyone can pronounce it. Later I found out it means hope in slavic languages
Oh a fellow Nadia!! Haven't seen one in ages! As a slav I can attest it is an abbreviation of Nadežda which means hope! (Also J Hope in your pic🥺💚)
@Richard Wellington Damn right. Cause people would be disappointed how ugly this Nadia compared to Nadia in American Pie
Nadia is a nice name
Hey there, may I join? Lol 😆
Instead of using the 'i' letter, my parents chose 'y', but it's still pronounced as Nadia.
Hobi ?
I believe this too
So I gave my daughter the name I liked most, connected with the most
Her name means Hope in Arabic
I knew she'd grow to look like her name and she did 🥰
Amal?
Hahhaha at first I understood your comment as saying "daughter I liked the most, connected with the most" and thought wow most mothers hide their preferential treatment of one lf the kids they like best, this one is proud of admitting it... lol
Is her name Hevy?
Is her name Nadia too :)
Aml! Amal? أمل lol!
I was telling my girl friends about how I feel like if I had a different name I wouldn't be who I am today, and they just wouldn't understand it. I always thought it had an impact on people so it's nice to see that this actually exists
As someone with a rare name and a personality disorder from the anxiety cluster I feel personally attacked by #6 at 6:55.
Same 😅
Me tooooo
Me. My name is old weird and unique and you cab imagine the childhood i had.
Hey there we have the same name at least here hahah
true, I feel personally attacked hahahaha, so It looks that I am not alone
Somebody once told me that I didn’t look like a Diego, but an Oscar. The people I’ve told the story to agreed him, however, no one else has ever said something similar.
You're a closet oscar, bro
maybe in parallel u are realy a oscar. who knows
You look like a sandro
I much prefer the name "Diego" - it sounds like a brave adventurer. "Oscar," I’m sorry, sounds like a wife-beater's name. I don’t know why‼️
Grow some facial hair and then you’ll look like a Diego
i love when science finally confirms magical logic. the name is the very essence of the thing, this is something we've always intuitively known but couldn't prove.
Doesn’t anyone else really want to know if their face matches their name now🤔
You look like a belle lol
Yes like do I look like a Gabriela???
@@gabrielavasquez7395 hmmmm you look like a Lisa.
Oh you look like a belle alright, you look like you could be belle from beauty and the beast, tbh.
Totally agree with the other reply, u look like Belle from Beauty and the Beast, go rock that name girl
Dan really looks like Dan
I though he was Josef.
@@MrCheesecake1928 honestly, me too. But when the results showed I was like "oooh... makes sense!"
I changed my legal name for the reasons this entire video denotes. Good to see such a complicated analysis explained and played out!
This is interesting because my own name came to my mom in a dream. When I was pregnant with my first child, I had a dream where I was presented with his name: Gabriel. I would’ve gone with that name, but my husband didn’t like the nickname Gabe. We named him what we originally picked: Wolfgang (goes by Wolfie). They are such different names and I can’t help if people (including myself) would think he was more of an “angel” if he went by Gabriel. We use that name from time to time and call it his angel name (we are absolutely NOT catholic/Christian, btw, but the cultural associations with an archangel is noted) and I can see his personality shift when we call him Gabriel and he’s only 6. He gets kind of sparkly - can’t describe it. Maybe it’s not about the name Gabriel but about how it came in a dream. Though it is a much softer name than “path of the wolf” German Wolfgang. My second child’s name also came in a dream, except it was she telling me her name loud and clear (Iris, we call her Riri). Regretfully, when I was a kid I wanted to name my girl Siri, which means star in Swedish. My mom is 100% swedish and my aunts would always say that Siri was a beautiful name for a girl. My husband is an iPhone programmer so that would be pretty ridiculous. Turns out Apple picked Siri is simply because it is Iris spelled backwards - Iris was the name of a robot on another smart phone that was the predecessor of Siri. We did not know that until after she was born. Will my kids grow up to be weird dreamy eccentric nature people because of their names? I’m assuming yes. It happened to me - and yeah it’s connected to me name.
That was worth the read, incredible turn of events. Hoping all the best for the kids.
Gabriel and Gabe sounds so nice😻
Your son's name is Wolfgang?
obviously, you married a german ;)
i like the name Wolfgang, but are you located in Germany? because here it is more the name of a middle aged man. But who knows, maybe it is fashionable again and i just don't know because i am not in the circles with young families. Gabriel is a name that is charged with meaning
I wonder how much of an effect this has casting roles in movies. Like Mark Hamill looks like a Luke to me, not a Mark.
same
I was thinking the same thing. 😂😂😂
This is fascinating. Someone once told me that my name suits me, and I thought it was interesting because I never really gave much thought to my name being a part of me
My mom always told me: The name does not make the person but the person makes the name😉
oh my god, I thought it was my personal psychic power to guess peoples names accurately
Living life as an Alexandre in the midwestern USA has really instilled a matrix of complexes about who my ideal self is.
If it weren't for my last name being such a powerfully down to earth statement my first two names 'Alexandre Etienne' would have had free reign in guiding me toward a life of ego-maniacal villainy.
Woah 👀
So my given name is Jacob but for the last 5 years almost all my friends have called me Jason (started as a joke but immediately stuck), and past teachers have occasionally mistaken me for a Josh. The array of faces at 8:00 is pretty crazy because I could immediately see that I look most like the Jason face, followed by Josh
Wow, I never thought I would hear my name in a QOVES Studio video! (Saoirse here!)😊My name is common where I live, so not many people pronounce it wrong, but people from other areas have a really hard time pronouncing it!😅
Your life will be easier now there's a very famous Saoirse :-)
Crazy how this works, my parents actually named my sister after someone solely because they thought she was beautiful (Vanessa Williams btw and they're not wrong she's gorgeous) so she subconsciously always keeps up her appearance where as I'm named after both of my grandmothers and not only so I look weirdly like both of them but I just happen to have a lot of their same interests and taste in things
"more anxiety and neuroticism were attributed to less common names.."
My parents found a name in a foreign language and then added a twist to the spelling so I've never seen anyone else with my name..constantly having to spell it and pronounce it, and explain where the heck it came from really did a number on me. To this day I hate introductions and meeting new people 😞
All the Africans with native names feel your pain 😂
Fruitytarian is a pretty interesting name though, kudos to your parents
@S. Conway haha 😂
@Byee I think native/traditional names are cool, they give you a link to culture and history 😀
Print cards with your name and hand them to people
Elliott is my own name and I've always thought it looks aesthetically pleasing.
Tbh it is. Elliott is just.. Idk man. It just rolls on the tongue 💫aesthetically💫 ,,
@@rosemania7556 Making me blush mate
definitely.
"less commonly spelled names are more likely to have less uniformly attractive traits" this video just called me ugly
so that's why people treat me differently based on what name i tell them 😐 my name's adonis but i used to prefer using donny in introductions bc it seemed more "friendly" sounding and those people said their impressions of me were fun and friendly. but ever since i started using adonis the impressions i got were: serious, intimidating, uptight even lmao
Adonis is actually a lovely name :)
do you know anyone called jeffrey
I've been wanting a video like this a long time...I always knew that names had something to do with someone's personality. If I heard a name I could create a profile on someone and usually be correct about it, almost as if I had a superpower. Awesome and informative video thank you!
"I think a man's name says a lot about him...my name's Steele, Colt Steele. What's your name?"
"Smallwood, Dick Smallwood."
Lol
This makes sense. I am an identical twin. I have softer features than my sister... and I ironically have a softer name. I knew another set of twins who didn’t look like their names. They were identical but easy enough to tell apart, however their names should have been swapped. The confusion wasn’t in my inability to physically tell them apart, but because I wanted to call each one by the name I felt fit better.
More accurately it is not Face to Name, rather Face to Name-Pronouncation.
That’s why I love people watching and guessing their names!
There's a book by Rosa María Palacios called "La magia de tu nombre" which explains how your name influences your character and personality. It involves aspects of numerology...those kinds of stuff. E.x the name Patricia because it has 2 i's it makes the person prone to anxiety and mental disorders. She verifies there's a lots of patients with that name in consulting. Some names she recommends for a man are Alejandro, André, Salvador.
oh no! my name has two i's
😮
does this book has english translation?
That is a nonsense meaning though. It's not because it has two i 's. That's obviously a fabrication to everyone. It's okay to say that we don't know why something is the way it is. We don't know everything. That's okay.
No sabía que RMP escribía ese tipo de libros. Veré más sobre eso...
This would explain why I felt the need to change my name when I escaped my bad childhood environment. I really feel like my original birthname is not my name. I hate the sound of it, I hate saying it. It feels like a bad word because people were so hateful towards me
Same.
I've heard this effect also called "stereotype threat" in other contexts.
Like, if you're repeated told you are born a "Scorpio" or a "Leo" or "Zebra" or whatever, because of a superstitious belief system that assigns personal expectations and fortunes to people based on a relative view of distant planets and imagined symbolic shapes drawn between stars as seen from Earth on our birthday.... this can actually influence how you think of yourself and how your personality develops, and informs conscious choices too the more you buy into the (in this case baseless) stereotype.
Zebra?
A lot of people had told me that Manuel doesn't suits me at all. And I agree, that's why I always go by Alonso.
Oh wow I'm amazed that I totally understand lol
A unique name can have its perks, I worked in a call centre for a grocery store and there was a lady who called in each week to make orders. She said I was the only advisor she remembered because of my name and was always really nice to me 😂
when i meet a stranger (example, charlie) i sometimes say "you look like the most charlie looking charlie ive ever seen" or "charlie looks more charlier than you" because i dont know how to start a conversation
With it becoming more and more common for parents to come up with “unique” / uncommon names, I wonder how this all will change and if the Dorian Effect will still hold, or eventually become moot.