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This is Scientific American 60-Second Mind, I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute?

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You may think your name is pretty rare.

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But whether you're a John or a Jocasta,

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a recent study finds that you will consistently rate your first name as rarer than other people would rate it.

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Researchers showed 247 subjects a list of nine names and their frequencies in the population.

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The subjects then rated how rare they thought their own names were, on a scale from 0 to 100.

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The researchers then asked another group to also rate the names of the volunteers.

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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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The study is The British Journal of Social Psychology.

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The research also revealed that those with truly rare names tended to be happier with those names.

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And those who'd ever considered changing their name said it was because they thought theirs was too common.

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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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But Shakespeare cut to the chase four centuries ago: after all, what's in a name?

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Mind. I'm Christie Nicholson.

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