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Is Your Kid Destined to Become CEO?

LinkedIn, with its database of over a hundred million names, is also an interesting trove of sociological data. Should you give your baby one of the most popular names for CEOs?
Posted on April 27, 2011 by Nicole Marie Richardson
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What’s in a name? According to LinkedIn data, your name may predict if you’re CEO material. The social network today released lists of most popular names in certain professions and positions. Among the findings that first caught our eye are these, the top ten CEO names for both men and women.
Top 10 Male CEO Names (Globally)

1. Peter 2. Bob 3. Jack 4. Bruce 5. Fred 6. Bill 7. Ron 8. Christian 9. Alexander 10. Don

Top 10 Female CEO Names (Globally)

1. Deborah 2. Sally 3. Debra 4. Cynthia 5. Carolyn 6. Pamela 7. Ann 8. Cheryl 9. Linda 10. Janet

Read more at Fastcompany.com.

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  • Guest

    The top ten CEO names is 40 years will probably have none of those names.

  • Banderson

    CEOs? Boring… How ’bout names of company founders who made the Forbes riches people list… Bet names like “Wyatt” and “Tyler” more common in that list…

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/vinceskolny Vince Skolny

    I hope this is high jinx and not intended as serious research. . .

  • Jbouani

    I don’t know who you are Banderson, but I just got chills because you used two of my characters names (Tyler and Wyatt) in the Future Business Leaders’ Series, so you MUST be on to something. Other names used in the series are Giselle, Jake, Sacha, Christopher, Gene and Bo.

    Jennifer Bouani (author)