Perhaps naming laws aren’t such a bad thing, at least in cases like this: D’AlCapone AlPacino Morris was arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Service last year on charges of murder, aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and felonious assault. No word on what the alleged criminal’s parents were thinking when they named him. (HT: Peter Mintun)[%comments]
Rough Name, Rough Start?
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Maybe it’s like a boy named Sue…
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye
I knew you’d have to get tough or die
And it’s the name that helped to make you strong.
He could have changed his name to that as an adult, of course.
I wouldn’t opposed to when filing for a Birth Certificate you had to pass the laugh test. If the employee issuing the birth certificate laughs, the parents are told to choose another name.
Maybe at the age of maturity children should be allowed to rename their parent’s first name…
There was an article in Social Science Quarterly last year which suggested that unusual names for both blacks and whites were over-represented in juvenile delinquency records. They theorized that the same socioeconomic factors which are related to naming your child an unusual name also influence whether the child will commit a crime.
Correlation does not equal causality.
I’m sure the fact that his parents were the type to give him that name has more to do with how he turned out than what his name actually is. Call him just plain ‘Al’, but give him the same parents, living situation, friends, etc. and I’m sure the results would have been almost identical.
Who does that?
I have a weird name. I have three middle names, one of which is Japanese (I’m Irish/English). My mother’s maiden name — which she didn’t change — is my first name.
And I’m not a criminal.