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If you’re looking to bear a CEO, you might want to name him Bob. Seriously. In a survey of professional profiles, LinkedIn released lists of most popular baby names in specific professions, such as CEOs, restaurant and food services, and engineers.

The top CEO names in the world, for instance, were for males:

1. Peter
2. Bob
3. Jack
4. Bruce
5. Fred
6. Bill
7. Ron
8. Christian
9. Alexander
10. Don

For females:

1. Deborah
2. Sally
3. Debra
4. Cynthia
5. Carolyn
6. Pamela
7. Ann
8. Cheryl
9. Linda
10. Janet

By contrast, the most popular female engineer names were:

1. Kiran
2. Jun
3. Yi
4. Ming
5. Li
6. Priya
7. Irina
8. Olga
9. Marina
10. Elena

Full story at Fast Company.

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