Thanks Dad

I read this article in the independent over lunch today. It turns out that I have a successful name :-D.

Here is a snippet about "David".

"The thing about the name David is that it doesn't have any negative connotations," says David Yelland, 42, a former editor of The Sun and now senior vice-chairman of the PR firm Weber Shandwick.

"It is classy but carries no social baggage. Unlike Piers or Quentin, which sound posh, or Kevin - at the other end of the scale - David gives no clues geographically or socially."

"It is serious without being pretentious, one of those names always on the top 10 list ... [and] is also quite a cool name so long as it's not shortened."

It is also a masculine-sounding name, useful for a man's image, he reckons: "The 'D' is quite a decisive consonant. It's not wet ... which is important if you're a guy."