[Atlas Sneezed]

With a name like Jaquez Ja’Quan Diante’, you’re dooming your sons to a life of drug dealing on some seedy street corner.

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It may not be causation. It may be that the parents who have poor capabilities tend to raise loser/criminals, and they also tend to give their kids stupid slave names. it could be a correlation.

There is a great chapter in the book Freakonomics about this, and it seems that this is more about what the parents want for their children. (e.g. middle class whites will tend to name their kids what upper class whites did several years ago, while the upper class moves on to other names that set future trends.)

[wouldntbprudent]

You got it: the name is just a proxy for the type of upbringing the kid will receive. It's not the name that dooms the kid, per se. It's that the name reflects that the kid has dumb parents and probably wasn't brought up wisely.