Yep Jasp, I get the difference



Here are a couple of articles about names that I thought were interesting.
I was going to post this one about jobs a month or two ago when it was in the news but I decided against it.
PM - Study finds employers shun minorities
Among the last names surveyed were Rosso, Ferrari and Romano (Italian), Chen, Huang and Chang (Chinese), Kassir and Baghdadi (Middle Eastern) and Tjungarrayi (Indigenous). They were pitted against Anglo-Saxon last names including Abbott, Adams and Johnson.

This article is based on the Freakonomics article about names which basically said that statistically the names that are popular amongst the wealthy and/or educated tend to be popular amongst the poorer and/or less educated about a decade later so the driver behind the cycles of popularity is keeping up with the Joneses. The author has been tracking the Freakonomics predictions for the most popular names of 2015.

This is a Freakonomics article about black names.

OT but if you can get your hands on a copy of Freakonomics read it. You may hate their ideas/conclusions but it's still fascinating