Diane, Adèle, Quitterie: these first names which collect mentions "Very Good"
If you are expecting a baby right now, take the time to look carefully at the graphic published by Baptiste Coulmont. This sociologist, a lecturer at the University of Paris 8, has, as in the previous year, studied the link between first names and the mentions obtained at the bac 2013. For this, he studied the proportion of mentions "Très Bien" by first names and highlighted a kind of social mapping with the first names chosen by "parents of the intellectual classes, of the bourgeois or of the wage-earner on one side [and] the first names chosen by parents of the popular classes of the other ".
The result shows that 20% of Diana and Adele who passed the 2013 Baccalaureate obtained a "Very Good". The Ulysses, Madeleine, Ella, Marguerite, Hannah, Irene, Octave or Domitille are also well placed since they are part of first names appear more than 30 times in the database and are associated with a very high rate of mentions "Very Good" in the bac 2013. On the other hand, Baptiste Coulmont indicates less than 2% of Cynthia, Brenda, Melvin, Eddy or Rudy received a mention Très Bien au bac 2013.
To measure his study, the sociologist relied on 338,000 candidates for general and technological bac in 2013, having obtained an average of over 8/20 and accepted the dissemination of their results. It further indicates that these disparities are not due to first names as such since the bac copies are corrected anonymously, on the other hand, Baptiste Coulomont makes it clear that the first name indicates "imperfectly and vaguely the social origin of those who wear it".
