Women With Girly Names Have More Sex?

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readNov 19, 2010

According to a French study — although in France all the names are pretty anyway — women whose names end in “-a” (Lauras and Lolas in particular) have more sexual partners over the course of their lifetimes than women whose names don’t (for instance, Thérèses and Martines). Meanwhile, an extremely recent and informal American study concludes that women whose names end in “-th” are more likely to run a blog all day.

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com