Valuable Assets as They Help a Person

¶ … valuable assets as they help a person stand out and give him his most basic identity. For this reason, I feel that parents must pay attention to the name they choose for their babies because the child has to live with it for the rest of his life and it better be something they can be happy about.

My name is Jason Alexander and there is certainly a good story behind it. My parents were told during ultrasound that they were having a girl and so they chose the name Alexa for me. But when I turned out to be a boy, they found themselves without a name. They were shocked to say the least and when they recovered, they realized they had not even thought of a boy name. I almost left the hospital without a name, had it not been for a television show where the lead character was called Jason. My dad liked the name and so they named me Jason and my middle name is a reminder of the baby girl they never had. Alexander is a boy version of the name Alexa that they had originally chosen for their baby.

I like my first name as well as my middle name and there are important reasons for that. I like Jason because it's easier to pronounce. Almost everyone I have ever met has been able to pronounce my name without thinking twice even some foreigners. Now why is that important? I heard somewhere that parents must always choose an easy name for their children so they can introduce them easily, become more social and are able to make more friends since other children won't have a problem saying their name. I found this to be very true because I always found it easy to make friends and others were usually able to remember my name. Since it's such an easy name, I have never been given a nickname. My parents, friends and family have always called me Jason and nothing else.

I like the name Alexander as well because it has a certain powerful connotation to it. I can sense power oozing out of this name primarily because some influential people had this name such as Alexander the Great, Alexander Graham Bell. According to research and U.S. census, Alexander is a very popular second name in the country. In the popularity ranking, it was ranked 96 out of 88799 names. Jason is also a popular first name with a ranking of 24. However Jason is not a very popular second name.

Having a popular first and second name has its advantages but it also comes with a downside. The very obvious downside of having a popular name is the lack of uniqueness which often makes a person get lost in the crowd since their name is so common. Everywhere I went, there were at least five Jasons that I knew or met. This meant that we had to work even harder to make our presence felt and to help people remember us. I don't mind the fact that it's so common because that only shows how popular or well liked this name has been. But I understand that I need to work more to make myself stand out in a crowd.