George scores low in baby-naming research

Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, show their newborn baby boy to the world’s media outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in London on July 23, 2013. – AFP/LEON NEAL

Based on a US psychologist’s research into how names influence the way people treat and think about others, George has a overall attractiveness percentile score of 36 – compared, for instance, with James, which scores a perfect 100.

SCIENTIFICALLY speaking, Prince William and his wife Kate could have come up with a better name for their newborn, suggests a respected US psychologist who’s studied how people react to different names.