How Name Fluent Are You?

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Explore the powerful and often overlooked role that names and their usage play in building connection, equity, and belonging. Take this quiz to gauge your understanding and discover if Name Fluency could enhance your leadership toolbox.

1. Why are names important? (Check one or more answers.)

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Names are a vital component of personal identity

Names are a primary social signifier of belonging

Names can hold important cultural and familial meaning

Names are legal affirmations of personhood

Names aren't important, they're basically just for convenience.

2. How do names affect the way we relate to other people?

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Other people's names don't affect how we relate to them.

Names shape our perception of a person's personality, status, culture, and value.

Names are easy to disconnect from people, so any influence is trivial.

Names are only relevant to how people see themselves.

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3. Can you think of a time when: (You can check multiple answers)

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You felt loved because of the way someone said your name.

You felt shamed because of your name.

You felt isolated when people wouldn’t or couldn’t say your name.

You felt bad about mispronouncing or forgetting someone else's name.

You felt afraid to tell your name to someone.

You felt proud to tell someone your name.

You changed or shortened your name to make things easier for others.

You called someone by someone else's name - on purpose.

You deliberately used someone’s name in a way that degraded them.

You felt angry or frustrated that someone wouldn't get your name right.

You were bullied about your name.

None of these have happened to me.

4. Which of these statements about names is false?

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Hearing your own name activates unique pathways in your brain.

Names are one of the first things our brains use to recognize people.

So-called “hard-to-pronounce" names may cause up to 50% of hiring bias against minority applicants.

There are federal U.S. laws that protect you from name-based discrimination.

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5. How does the concept of "name-based bias" manifest in societal structures like hiring, healthcare, and education?

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Name-based bias is a myth and has no effect in systems like hiring or education.

Names can lead to conscious or unconscious biases that limit opportunities and treatment.

People are equally likely to be hired or treated well regardless of their name.

Name-based bias only affects individuals with rare or non-traditional names.

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6. When you see or hear a name you’ve never encountered before, it's best to: (Check one or more answers.)

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Pronounce it the way you think it should sound.

Look for a context clue (like origin/language).

Ask the person how they'd like it pronounced.

Avoid using it.

Assign the person an easier nickname.

7) What do you really wish more people knew about YOUR name? *

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