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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Mind, I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute?
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2 .You may think your name is pretty rare.
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3 .But whether you're a John or a Jocasta,
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4 .a recent study finds that you will consistently rate your first name as rarer than other people would rate it.
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5 .Researchers showed 247 subjects a list of nine names and their frequencies in the population.
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6 .The subjects then rated how rare they thought their own names were, on a scale from 0 to 100.
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7 .The researchers then asked another group to also rate the names of the volunteers.
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8 .Turns out that the subjects always rated their name as more rare than the estimated ratings done by the other group.
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9 .The study is The British Journal of Social Psychology.
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10 .The research also revealed that those with truly rare names tended to be happier with those names.
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11 .And those who'd ever considered changing their name said it was because they thought theirs was too common.
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12 .The researchers think that the assumption that one's name is less common than it really is comes from a subconscious desire to feel special.
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13 .But Shakespeare cut to the chase four centuries ago: after all, what's in a name?
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Mind. I'm Christie Nicholson.
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