The professional networking site, Linkedin, has released a review of members on the top names most correlated with success.
For men the names most likely correlated with being a CEO of a company are: Peter, Bob, Jack, Bruce, Fred. For women the top CEO names are: Deborah, Sally, Debra, Cynthia, Carolyn.
According to a doctor Dr. Frank Nuessel, men rely on short, easily pronounced, nickname names because it conveys a friendliness. For women the reliance on longer names is meant to convey a professionalism.
Now of course correlation is not the same as prediction. For the men, those are just really popular names. They just make up a large proportion of the population. It's not like one of them is really unique and 'oh, isn't it bizzare that this name that comes up so rarely so often happens to be the name of a CEO.'
The other thing for all those parents out there thinking about naming a newborn, as I'm sure there are so many that look to a college kid for parental advice, picking a successful name is not unlike picking a successful stock. If you pick what's popular and high on demand now, it may very well not be that way 30 years from now. I would think the best approach would be to just keep the general guidelines of Dr. Nuessel: short and friendly for boys and elegant and professional for girls.
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