Teachers share names that are an ‘instant red flag’ if they see

Not to get all Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet but ‘what’s in a name’ really?

Even within days of being born people start to give us nicknames, some of us choose to go by our middle names and some of us take any opportunity to shorten our name to something else.

But when the teacher reads our names out on the register from an early age, they’ll often go with our birth name until they know us better at least.

And so, it’s them who sees the change over the years of trends around baby names.

With the likes of Sienna and Jude said to be big this year (come on Bellingham, win us the World Cup), there’s also the more unique names that get picked up. Molly Mae Hague of course recently named her newborn Midas, which isn’t quite as traditional as the likes of Matthew. But apparently some names can be a ‘red flag’ to those teachers reading the register.

There's teachers who are apparently judging kids by their names. (Getty Stock)

Now, I mean, let’s get one thing straight, kids aren’t exactly responsible for the name they’re given. If anything, you could argue their name is more a reflection of their parents than their own behaviour.

However, some teachers out there are said to be judging their pupils based on what they’ve been called. And how fair you think that is I’ll leave up to you.

SJ Strum is a ‘baby name consultant’ who lives between Surrey and Sweden and shares parenting lifestyle videos as well as, you guessed it, baby name content.

Back in 2020, she asked teachers ‘for some anonymous tips and stories about names in their classrooms’.

This then led to her breaking down ‘naughty names’ or the names of kids who are going to be ‘most judged’ by the likes of examiners.

“There are some that stood out and came up again and again,” SJ explained.

First up is the likes of ‘Jake, Max, Jack, Harrison’ before she added: “The biggest one for boys was anything ending in ‘-den’.

Apparently several teachers told her that, so the likes of ‘Hayden and Jayden’ can be more mischievous in class.

I mean, these teachers may have just met some kids that coincidentally are called this.

For little girls, names like ‘Isla and Jessica’ are ‘really chatty names’. And, I don’t want to eat into this stereotype but here I am, Jessica, chatting away – is that such a bad trait?

It’s also said that ‘Martha’ can be a ‘high-maintenance’ name while ‘Alexandra’ can supposedly be ‘a bit of a bully’.

Well, you know, let’s not judge a book by its cover.