The Most Common Names In The Legal Profession: Is Yours One Of Them?

Is it just us, or do most of these names seem a bit… old, white, and male?

Verdant Labs, the creator of the Nametrix baby-naming app, recently released some very interesting data that revealed a correlation between certain names and professions. Using public records, Verdant discovered that among 37 professions, six different names were the “most disproportionately common” — more common, in fact, than in the general population at large.

This information led Mark Edmond, the founder of Verdant Labs, to wonder over at Nameberry:

[D]o our names influence where we go in life? Or do the social, geographic, economic, and other factors that might have influenced how our parents named us also direct our career paths?

As Edmond goes on to note, the connection is subtle. We wanted to see what the most common names for lawyers and judges were, and luckily, those were two of the professions Verdant chose to dissect in his research. Do you think these names had any impact on these people’s chosen careers later in life? Here they are:

Is it just us, or do most of these names seem a bit… old, white, and male? Despite the legal profession’s attempts to be more diverse, it’s evident there’s work to be done.

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