So, I have an Ace and this thread has been enlightening!
In case you're interested...
Me and his father are degree educated professionals, with additional professional qualifications.
If I had to put a label on it, we're solidly middle class (but I come from a working class background).
My Ace is likely to end up in one of the professions discussed on here in reference to his name.
He's never had anything horrible said to his face about his name. He gets asked a lot of it's his real name though.
He's funny, charming, ridiculously bright, handsome, athletic and a Grade 8 musician. (I know, I know)
He cares not a jot about the new meaning given to the word Ace.
But what I now know is that a proportion of middle class, middle aged women judge him for his name and wouldn't want him to be their surgeon. Or lawyer. Which, I think, on balance, works out beautifully because it saves him the hassle of dealing with people who think like that, and it saves then from the horror of being got off their speeding ticket by a lawyer called Ace.
I knew it was out there, I knew it wasn't everyone's cup of tea. But I also knew that everyone would get used to it and he would suit his name the way all kids end up suiting their name.
Finally, when I was pregnant with my second son, I asked Ace is he had any name ideas. He said let's call him Brilliant. Or Awesome. And to this day, I kind of regret not calling Ds2 Orson. Because it sure sounds like Awesome!