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Whats in aname?
Shakespeare asked inRomeo and Juliet.
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.
Well, maybe that works for roses, but not so much for people.
Some parents can go a little overboard in picking anamethats a tad bit too special.
This womanchosethe name Grainne for her daughter in honor of her great grandmother.
And while thats incredibly sweet, she didnt exactly know the right pronunciation.
Whats more, the pronunciation of a name also had a role in whether people viewed others as trustworthy.
People actually thought claims attributed to easy-to-pronounce names were more likely to be true, Newman noted.
Basically, people trust an Adrian Babashenko more than a Czeslaw Ratynska.
But naming troubles dont end here.
Even if a kids name is easy to pronounce, its spelling can cause some issues too.
Psychologist Jean Twengeclaimsthat differently-spelled names are to blame for declining spelling and reading capabilities among U.S. children.
That can be incredibly hard on a persons confidence, she wrote.
In some cases, an unusual or weirdly-spellednamecan negatively affect a persons career.
One studyfoundthat recruiters favored those whose names were easy to spell over such as the poor Grainne.
People with easier-to-pronounce surnames occupy higher status positions in law firms, the authors stated.
On the other hand, having a unique name can do wonders for a persons self-esteem and creative thinking.
Theres also almost a guarantee that people will remember you more easily.
The apostrophe above the A means that it should be pronounced long.
Sometimes, the name is spelled Grania.
Often, those names were popular before people knew how to spell, hetoldCCN Travel.
A relatively old name like Meadhbh would have different versions because people spell it different ways.
Another is the modernization of theIrishalphabet.
There were different stages of spelling normalization in the Irish language.
In the 1950s, they decided to kind of modernize the alphabet, O Seaghdha explained.
Thats when anglicized spellings took off.
Its probably good to know how a name is spelled before giving it to your child.
Theres nothing wrong with using Irish names, especially if they belonged to family members in the past.
