What Your Name Says About Your Profession

Are you in the right profession? Do you want to give your future baby a head start in their adult career? Then the following information could help you with your next occupation or choosing that perfect baby name. Verdant Labs, the developers behind the baby-naming app Nametrix, have made a chart that shows six first names that are disproportionately held in each of 37 professions. This name and profession correlation is another interesting phenomenon that Verdant Labs encountered while building the name metrics for their baby names app. All of the data was analyzed through public records to find the most inordinately common names in each profession.

For any given profession, there are certain names that appear more often in that profession than in the general population. Here’s a chart with six of the most common names in those 37 professions.