Do children ‘become’ name you chose?

[User14March]

Does a child’s name influence way they are treated at school & who they become to any degree?

E.g: India - popular, pretty
Margaret - nerdy, old fashioned etc? - with apologies to any young Margaret
Charlotte - clever, popular, well balanced

There seems to be some influence I think.

Margaret cool and classy? Lol.

Names are so nuanced. In another life, I would study sociology and write volumes about names. The names you mention (India, Margaret, Charlotte) mostly go in the same box for me: nice girls from good families. It's Stacey, Misty and Crystal I'd expect to find behind the bike sheds.

Children put their own stamp on most names.
What are your opinions of Julia or Susanna, Katie or Sophie?

FWIW
I have a frilly name with a masculine diminutive (think Henrietta - Henry). It has made me neither romantic nor sporty. It has been irritating all my life. I would have chosen something plain but recognisably feminine like Anne or Jane.

Different people have different opinions of names and project these.
I had a pupil called Rocky. Quite unfairly, I was expecting him to be a handful - I felt like naming a child that doomed him to be bad - but he was one of the loveliest boys I've taught. Best of all, he taught me I was wrong! :)

[I know a Jayden. He vapes, is not doing well in school, has dabbled in dealing drugs and has been badly beaten up by bigger men higher up the chain.]

My daughter has a posh but quite hard name

She's only a toddler but I'm very glad I didn't call her Grace or Sophia

She is rough and tough

To a pp, Julia, 50s, Susanna(h) 60s, Sophie 70s/80s, Katie (80s). Although some of bunch you list more of a classic.

@tarheelbaby it’s about having a name that broadly fits with demographic in primary. If everyone is Brayden or Jayden & you’re Ptolemy, not good.

I remember some rather eccentric, academic friends of mine had a son called Crispian. I remember thinking it was so out there.

Broadly speaking the successful popular kids who went on to do well had biblical names. A few of their Mums nodded sagely when talking about names, ‘you can’t go wrong with a bible name’.

Those that dared to go off piste with bible geography, were looked at askance & Sharon etc haven’t proved as enduring.

NB: Crispian was son of parent’s friends.

Once to ballet, to much fanfare, 8 year old, super popular Nicola was now to be known as ‘Anthea’. Poss parents Generation Game fans (?) Wonder what prompted that (?)

Victoria Beckham, I wonder if she’d choose Brooklyn, etc, again.

To add, will Harper Beckham be more likely to have a Beau, Finn or a Monty or a James?

Absolutely! No lol about it.

My name is a rather straight laced old fashioned one, and as a teenager I shortened it myself to a nickname which I only much later on realised is rather a "stripper" name! Too late by then though. And now in recent years there is a very senior international politician with the name (although I don't share her politics at all).

No I don't think so. I'll use your Charlotte example, I know quite a few . One got bullied everyday and ate lunch in the loo, one was the bully, another one does nails and eyelashes for a living and another one I know is a food reviewer, and another one I know is an estate agent. Two of them have kids and all three are married they are all lovely adults. I don't think names matter too much

@reluctantbrit Hedda?

Nora, Ibsen's A Doll's House

I guessed correctly

I knew a rough family and all their kids had names of Kings and Queens. I think they was a conscious effort to set them up better for the future.