MY PARENTS MADE ME DO IT

Before you name your next child some rare and unique (read: flaky) name you might want to pay heed to a study from the University of British Columbia which found that kids with unpopular names are more likely to end up in trouble with the law than kids with more common names. “There is a positive correlation between unpopular first names and juvenile delinquency,” said the author of this study, which tracked 15,021 kids in an unnamed American town between the years 1987 and 2005. The researchers calculated that for every 10 per cent increase in the popularity of a name there is an associated 3.7 per cent decrease in the number of troublemaking kids with that name. (Calgary Herald)