h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It has occured to me, on the subject of names, that people expect that certain character traits will be transmitted to either pet or child by chosing a particular name.
After paying attention to this human oddity for several years before I and my wife were married (No particular reason, just thought that names were interesting, in that, I noticed that characters in literature with a particular name, behaved a good bit like real people I knew with the same name.) I also noticed that people I knew who had the same first names tended to have the same type of character traits. Not that they behaved so much alike, but just vague similarities such as the type of women they liked, or the type of sport they enjoyed. Just things on the fringes of behavior that were too similar to be explained by the concept of mere chance. Feeling that these differences were partly caused by the fact that their last names were different. I studied, I used company computers for designing probability calculators, (The findings of the company computers I cannot tell you. The programs were shut down before they rendered anything usable, and I was reprimanded.) Still there was some evidence for my argument that a persons firnge characteristics are in some ways affected by their names. In the end I decided that the whole thing had been due to some Freudian, or possibly even a Riekian(I don't think I spelled that right) fascination with the fact that I couldn't at the time figure out what I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing, and that it had something to do with my name.
D. Morrison