Beginner's English Listening and Reading Exercise 1 - Names

Thank you for the video. Firstly, I live in Ukraine and over here the names you mentioned don't seem to indentify the people as boring or intelligent. For us they are just names, and mostly we can think of definite people on hearing the name. Secondly, I think that usually a name of a famous (not nessassarily popular) person can be connected with the person's traits. So that if the person is bad his name can? bear some negative sense for many people. Anyway, I can understand your point of view.