Prospective parents, beware - what you name your baby could negatively affect their future.
"Name your kids what you love, but be aware there are consequences," David Figlio, an economics and education professor at Northwestern University, told Time.
Figlio found that, across all races and ethnicities, there are certain letter
combinations that are more likely to be given by high school dropouts, for example, than mothers who have completed school.
Among caucasian families, Alexandra may be spelled Alekzandra; the "kz" combination is almost never seen in middle-class families. For African Americans, it may mean use of the prefix "Sha" rather than the more highly regarded "La."
Teachers treat children with "linguistically low-status" names differently to their peers - they are more likely to be referred for special education, less likely to be recognized as gifted and they perform poorer on tests, according to America's National Bureau of Economic Research.
