What's in a Name

People have many reasons for the names they give their children. I do not know of many who consider what is being invoked or the potential that lay in the letters of the name. I am sure they exist. Of course, it may not matter one bit. This view could be absolute fantasy. But I wonder what the world would be like with a higher consciousness of names and letters. What were human temperaments like before labels and titles? Have words done anything to change the inherent ways of humanity?

I once read a story of an indigenous tribe having an elder speak to a fetus when it was seven months in gestation. Supposedly, the fetus told the elder who it was and what was its purpose in this life it was now entering into, and who it had been in a past life. If this can truly be done, what would change in modern times? Would the true essence of an individual be lived instead of a life of searching to answer that generally ever plaguing question: "Who am I?"