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Of course it would be wrong to judge a doctor or a lawyer just by their name, and no one is going to be actually entirely prevented from getting a good job just because their name. it's just that to a lot of people a trashy or weird 's going to make a bad impression. It'sl like with clothes, of course it's unfair to judge people by how they dress, but if you go for a job interview in a bank wearing torn jeans and lots of piercings, you're very unlikely to get the job no matter how great your credentials are (or if by miracle you do, you're going to get asked to change your look). As for working-class people not worrying about how the name sounds professionally, this is rather unfortunate, because it means they can't really imagine that their child might get an education and progress socially (whereas presumably most middle-class people think their kids are all go to college and have white collar jobs as a matter of fact, no matter how silly they may turn out to be). Ok, A Precious Diamond is better than Cobra, but only marginally so. In my own culture neither would be allowed anyway.