ENG 119 Assignment: Significance of My Name, Antoinette

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The Significance of Names
Introduction
Besides the purposes of identity, a name bears some significance. Everything be it an item, an animal or a human being bears a name. People are named after others, given names due to its meaning or given a name because the parent likes it or there is a history behind it. Places likewise, bear the names of different historians or a historical event that took place. This paper discusses the originality, the meaning of my name Antoinette. It also tackles the significance of a name to a person. Lastly, it discusses the meaning and originality of my street name Nuvern Avenue Mount Vernon New York.
Significance of My Name, Antoinette
Antoinette is an English, American, France, Italian girl child name which means praiseworthy in the four categories. It’s a female diminutive for the name Antoine. The spelling of the word originates from the word anthos. Anthos is a Greek term which means flower. The name Antoinette was founded to by Marie Antoinette. Marie was the queen of France. This was during the France revolution, and it was during this time that her guillotine execution took place.
Asking my mom why she named me Antoinette, she answered because am priceless. She says that before me, she had lost three children during delivery. She had lost hope in getting children. I came a month earlier, and she was 100% positive that I would follow my siblings. She says she named me three weeks after I was borne when she was sure I would survive longer. To my mom and dad am a blessing and priceless.
Names have meaning; thus making them important. It is believed that names shape almost all aspects of an individual’s life. A name plays a vital role in shaping someone’s personality, success and relationship with others. A name holds someone's future potential. A person's lifetime success is influenced by their name as shown by research (Goudreau, 2015). The range of the lifetime success is from spending habits to hireability.
People who bear easier to pronounce and to write names often secure higher positions at work. This aspect has a psychological explanation which goes on as the following. People like more a piece of information that can easily be processed and comprehended. The same applies to names. Companies in the stock market, which are simpler and easily pronounced, performed better than those with complicated names. The ease of hireability goes to the ladies and gentlemen who bear easy and simpler names (Goudreau, 2015). Unique names are usually connected with juvenile delinquency thus making hireability even more complicated.
Personality is a major thing influenced by the name as found out by various research. Personality in this context refers to behavior. The influence a name has on behavior has been attributed to something called implicit-egotism effect. What this huge term means in simpler words is that people are mostly drawn closer or attracted by things or people who resemble them (Konnikova, 2013). People value their identities and thus have a unique preference for things that are common to their identities.
Due to that, a name thus influences people’s professional choices, res...