Recently my teenage daughter came home with a new boyfriend she introduced us to him as Alex, nothing unusual there or is there?  A year before she had introduced us the boyfriend of that time – his name too was Alex.  My brother is married to a woman called Michelle, prior to this long term relationship he had three girlfriends called Michelle – did they all have the characteristics or was he just bad at names?  I used to belong to a writing site where my favourite author shared my name, reading her profile she was a mirror image of me.

I remember my mother once saying that when my brother was a baby everyone seemed to be naming their boys the name she had chosen and yet she was not aware of it being a popular name prior to her choice.  If she had chosen the name David or Stephen there would be an argument for popularity but William?  When she had named me six years earlier she knew no other new mothers that had chosen the same name as her.

I chose to name my daughter after the midwife that delivered her, for my list of name where all for boys.  I wonder why parents choose the names they do and if without realisation it is with a knowing of the future character – my daughter is very laid back, calm and relaxed, caring and able – the qualities of a midwife?

There is a mathematical theory called the chaos suggesting that whilst seemingly unrelated a group of things are connected. How many people do you know with same name and similar character is there a little chaos going with name choosing?