The Secret To Your Success: Short Name

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-short-names-earning-power-20130508,0,1460207.story

Shorter first names mean more income. Somehow this study finds that every extra letter means a $3,600 drop, and that shorter nicknames like Bill mean more success than full names like William. They even go so far as to say Michele earns more than Michelle.

None of this is going to sit well with Maximilian Schell or Bartholomew J. Simpson.

But I predict a run on Al, Ed and Bob in the next Social Security list of baby names.

 

William Shatner scoffs at Will Farrell

 

But how does he feel about Will Ferrell.

 

Scoffs.

 

Al Alburquerque better hope they don't count letters in his last name.

 

Yep, she should have called herself Queen Liz.

 

I always wondered about those foofs who go with the first initial.

 

Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo made more than $143 million playing basketball, and that doesn't even count Geico money.

 

As someone with a three-letter first name (albeit shorted to Joe but actually Joseph), I demand a lifetime of compensation.

 

A shorter name hasn't helped Ray Guy get into the Hall of Fame.

 

Brian Peter George St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle Eno probably made a lot of money as a record producer.

 

Infielder Alan Mitchell Edward George Patrick Henry Gallagher made $26,000 from the Angels in 1973, the last of his four MLB seasons.