Ever wonder your name and the ease or difficulty with which its pronunciation can be done can have major impact on the levels of your success, or failure for that matter.

It has been found by researchers from Melbourne, Australia, that the easy your name is on people's tongues the more bright your chances are of succeeding.

A recently concluded study in this regard, which was carried out by researchers from School of Psychological Sciences of the Melbourne University, has revealed that the “name pronunciation effect” tend to have a major influence in the manner in which individuals are recognized by others.

Dr. Simon Laham, who led the research, claimed that names and surnames that are easy-to-pronounce tend to have a positive impact on the way the person is judged by others in the society as they are found getting a more positive response.

While expressing his opinion regarding the entire issue, along with shedding light on the significance of the findings harvested from the recent study, one of the lead researchers of the study, Dr. Simon Laham, said: “The effect is not due merely to the length of a name, or how foreign-sounding or unusual it is, but rather how easy it is to pronounce”. During the course of the study, Dr. Laham was supported by various other matter experts from Belgium and New York.

The study, whose reports have been made available in the recent edition of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, was basically focused on analyzing a large number of surnames belonging to different ethnic group.

While revealing the findings, the researchers claimed that O'Sullivan, Philippidis and Sherman have found to be among those surnames that are comparatively easier or better say easiest to pronounce as compared to some tough surnames in the likes of Loughnane and Farquharson which were found lacking fair amount of fluency.