Can you make an accurate judgement of a person based on his or her name?

There was a motion picture sometime back with the simple title, "Heathers." The movie gave a less than flattering portrait of young women with that name. Is it true? When you choose names for your children, do you give thought to what their name might mean to their future success in life?

In an issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Howard J. Bennett presented a personal study of the various names of people in the medical profession in the United States. In his study he found 22 doctors named Needle, Probe, Lance and Ligate, and another 20 named Drill, Scope, Bolt and Pin. Dr. Bennett also found 19 physicians named Fix, Cure and Heal, and 74 doctors named Brilliant, Able and Best! So far, so g…