I think there have been studies on this, but I'm pretty sure being given a non-standard first name, particularly if it's not "ethnic", is highly correlated with high-magnitude weird personal, social, and economic outcomes.
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that's Canadian for beer
Haha true. My father worked at the brewery in Montreal and I have a brother named Hilton (named after where he was conceived). Crazy parents.
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BTW I can see how the original tweet might be on to something. The hippie-est parents I know give the weirdest names (ie Zuzu)
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The observation (true or not, I don't know) reminds me of how adopted children are disproportionately represented amongst our tech titans: Ellison, Jobs, and Bezos are all adopted.
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