A number of recent papers have discussed the idea of names having an effect on outcomes. The most famous paper is the one linked below by Fryer and Levitt. another one on the effect of surnames (slighly different idea) is below that
"The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 119(3), pp. 767-805. (with Fryer, Roland G., Jr.) Download
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aea/jep/2006/00000020/00000001/art00009
on their blog, levitt talks about research on street names
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/do-street-names-matter/
well, the below probably demonstrates, at least anecdotally, that car names matter and also that names probably matter differently depending on the language of the people hearing them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero
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