Source: LA Times:
Names and money, it turns out, have some correlation. According to a survey of top earners, the shorter the name, the higher the salary is likely to be. Or at least, people with high salaries tend to have very short names.
Before you go changing your moniker to Al, be aware that the survey just points out a certain amount of coincidence, not one thing causing another. It’s more likely that people who use short nicknames — and many of the top earners do — have certain personal characteristics in common that gear them toward higher pay. Maybe their inclination toward the short and informal indicates a certain gregariousness that we already know tends to help people in their careers. If you’re a William kind of guy, switching to Bill probably isn’t all that likely to land you in a corner office (though around here, there’s a guy nicknamed Nick who has it).