Africans assign names to their children according to the happening of a certain situation, or after their grandfathers/mothers as a way to keep their names and spirit alive through the family or ...

I was adopted at age 5 from Bulgaria by an American family. My parents Americanized my name, and I've been trying for the past 18 years to correct them. I've come to understand the importance and ...

“Some people don’t tell you when you become a parent, how weird it is when you name your baby,” new mom Hannah Sands begins her now-viral TikTok video about regretting and changing her son’s name.

I'm proud of my name, but hate the way Americans pronounce it. The mispronunciation is subtle, so people usually don't get it right, even when I correct them. My name has taught me to advocate for ...

Google can listen to you pronounce a name and learn from it. I was JUST thinking about this topic yesterday... my housemate is named Maryam, but invariably Google speech-to-text will write it as ...

Growing up in North Carolina as the daughter of two rabbis was hard enough—growing up with a name like mine was even harder. My parents named me Meirav Batsheva. Meirav means abundance in Hebrew. The ...

“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare asked in Romeo and Juliet. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as ...