英文名可透露你的職業？

Alastair is particularly likely to be a journalist. Hannah has a good shot at being a poet. Dalton is more likely than most to sell insurance.

Alastair很有可能是一名記者。Hannah極有可能是一名詩人。Dalton則更有可能是保險銷售。

A new analysis from app maker Verdant Labs found the six most unique names in 37 different professions. These are the names that are more common in that line of work than in others.

應用軟件制造商Verdant Labs最近的一項分析發現，37種不同職業各有六個獨特的名字，這六個名字在某一職業中出現的頻率要遠高于其他的名字。

Here's Verdant Labs' chart showing the six most disproportionately common names in each profession:

下面是Verdant Labs的圖表，展示了各個職業中出現頻率最高的六個名字。

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In a blog post, developer Mark Edmond explained more about the methodology:

在一篇博文中，軟件開發者馬克·愛蒙德對這個原則進行了詳細解釋：

Take Elvis, for example. There aren't all that many Elvises out there, but a particularly high percentage of them are musicians. As a result, Elvis ranks high among musician names. Elvis isn't the most common name among musicians -- that's likely to be John or some other very popular name. What's interesting is that it's way more common among musicians than you might expect, given how rare it is. In other words, it's common in that profession relative to its overall frequency.

以Elvis為例。叫Elvis的人并不多，但是他們當中音樂家特別多。因此，Elvis在音樂家名字中排名靠前。Elvis并非最常見的音樂家名字，可能最常見的還是John等其他流行的名字。有趣的是，考慮到Elvis這個名字本來就不常見，它在音樂家中的常見程度也就可以算是很高了。換句話說，這個名字出現在音樂家中的幾率要高于它出現的整體幾率。

Some of the findings won't be too surprising: Police officers, race car drivers, golfers and guitarists are more likely to be men. Social workers, librarians and graphic designers tend to be women.

有些發現在情理之中：警官、賽車手、高爾夫球手和吉他手中男性更多。社工、圖書管理員、平面設計師里女性更多。

Some other interesting tidbits: Football coaches are likely to have one-syllable names such as Rich, Mike or Bill. Songwriters' names harken back to some famous male musicians of the 1960s and 1970s, including Sonny, Mick and Billy. Hebrew names such as Moshe, Meir, and Shlomo are extremely common among rabbis.

這里還有一些有趣的細節：足球教練經常是起一個音節的名字，比如Rich、Mike或Bill。流行歌曲作者的名字常常是二十世紀六七十年代的著名男音樂家的名字，比如Sonny、Mick和Billy。希伯來語的名字，比如Moshe、Meir或Shlomo在拉比（猶太教經師或神職人員）中極為常見。

“So, do our names influence where we go in life? Or do the social, geographic, economic and other factors that might have influenced how our parents named us also direct our career paths?” Edmond wrote in the post. “Our hunch is that it’s mostly the latter, but bear in mind that the connection is subtle.”

愛蒙德在博文中寫道，“所以，我們的名字會不會影響今后的人生方向呢？或者說影響父母為我們起名字的社會、地理、經濟等其他因素還會繼續影響我們的職業道路？直覺告訴我們主要是后者，但是請記住，二者的聯系是非常微妙的。”

Here's a searchable list of the names and professions, too:

以下是可查詢的名單和職業清單：

拉比: Judah, Shlomo, Meir, Yosef, Moshe

警官: Wayne, Kevin, Louis, Raymond, Timothy, Kim

詩人: Edgar, Hannah, Celia, Anne, Dorothy, Edmund

攝影師: Hugo, Bruno, Zoe, Tracey, Noah, Annie

賽車手: Bobby, Johnny, Robbie, Jimmy, Luigi, Sebastian

平面設計師: Diana, Alison, Vanessa, Jessica, Kurt, Jan

高爾夫球手: Tommy, Willie, Bud, Simon, Johnny, Bobby

地質學家: William, Frederick, Henry, Samuel, Hugh, Leonard

氣象學家: Scott, Bill, Joe, Jim, Jeff, Mike

牧場主: Leroy, Leland, Boyd, Clifford, Roy, Judy

吉他手: Trey, Richie, Mick, Eddie, Buddy, Sonny

鼓手: Billy, Mickey, Joey, Dave, Tommy, Chad

汽車銷售員: Pete, Travis, Clay, Larry, Bob, Allen

足球運動員: Darnell, Jermaine, Reggie, Derrick, Nate, Quinton

機械師: Randy, Patrick, Dave, Rick, Jerry, Fred

社工: Penelope, Stella, Constance, Jeannette, Marsha, Vivian

理發師: Patricia, Raymond, Lori, James, Robert, Susan

電氣工程師: Bernard, Eugene, Harvey, Alfred, Charles, Edwin

記者: Hanna, Gideon, Alastair, Angus, Louisa, Jonah

會計: Kurtis, Charmaine, Maribel, Mitzi, Adele, Mindy

足球教練: Bill, Mike, Rich, Steve, Jim, Dan

圖書管理員: Abigail, Margot, Nanette, Julia, Eleanor, Johanna

軍人: Jeremy, Jacob, Zachary, Justin, Joshua, Kyle

歷史學家: Henry, Adrienne, Herbert, Carolina, Theodore, Emma

農民: Delbert, Marlin, Duane, Darin, Mavis, Elwood

消防隊員: Ryan, Darren, Brandon, Matthew, Jeremy, Jason

健身教練: Julie, Rebecca, Virginia, Karen, Jennifer, Pamela

律師: Sanford, William, Norton, Marshal, Augustus, Cecily

歌曲作者: Sonny, Mick, Richie, Stevie, Billy, Benny

保險推銷員: Patty, Garrett, Dalton, Mac, Clark, Brent

室內設計師: Martha, Marjorie, Elise, Melinda, Bonnie, Lynne

生物學家: Sara, Suzanne, Stuart, Nicholas, Janet, Cheryl

法官: Josiah, Lise, Archibald, Rufus, Louise, Clement

特技演員: Alex, Erik, Eddie, Tom, Terry, Ben

外科醫生: Barrett, Harris, Sherwin, Jefferson, Holly, Sanford

風險資本家: Shawn, Guy, Nicholas, Joanna, Doug, Alexander

獸醫: Peggy, Sara, Tracy, Wayne, Gene, Larry

（譯者：小霹靂 編輯: Zoe）