What's in a Name?

I came across an article about a study of someone trying to prove that a person's name affects their choices and how they behave.  This reminded me of Mersault's trail from The Stranger. The jury judged Mersault on what little facts they had about his emotions rather than his crime.  This seems to me to be the same as trying to judge a person from their name.  Unfortunately people try to form an opinion of others even when the only fact they have about a person could be their name, so judgements are made based on name. 
In The Stranger, Mersault did not express his emotions as everyone else in the novel did.  They looked down on him for this.  He was convicted of a crime for not crying at his mothers funeral, it seemed, not because he had killed a man.  Because Mersault was not like everyone else he was punished for it.  The people formed an opinion of him based little facts they were told.  They believed because Mersault had not cried at his mothers funeral and had then gone out with his girlfriend shortly after the funeral he was a terrible mother hater.  This was not the case; Mersault loved his mother.  So the reason why the jury convicted Mersault was only based on half of the facts. 

The jury basing their opinoin on these little facts is the same as trying to form a conclusion of someone knowing only their name.  If, for instance, a person knew a guy named George and he was a jerk then they would associate the name with negative feelings.  If a person has an unusual name it does not necessarily make them weird or an outcast. 

As a whole, we as human beings need to stop judging others without knowing all the facts.