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It isn't meant to be a cause and effect. It is meant to be a correlation. It's statistically there; kids at the lower-probability spectrum have a higher probability of "breaking bad" than the people up at the top. It isn't to say that one will or one won't, because that's not what statistics mean.
"Conclusions. Unpopular names are likely not the cause of crime but correlated with factors that increase the tendency toward juvenile delinquency, such as a disadvantaged home environment and residence in a county with low socioeconomic status."
What they mean by the "low socioeconomic status" has nothing to do with the giving of the name. That is put in there by the researchers that they thing that the names/home environments would be a contributing factor to larger issues such as living in a ghetto.
Basically you're not going to have a better life in the ghetto if your name is "Freud Signalwave Peterson".
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