Name Meanings

Where'd you get your name? Take our quiz and learn how parents in different cultures name their kids. ...

Literary Names What's in a Name If a name is associated with an unfortunate incident, it often diminishes in popularity, but many of the names used in Shakespeare's plays were and are popular regardless of how their namesakes ended up. We all...

The Great Melting Pot of Names As people from all over the world continued to come to the United States, they brought their names and their naming traditions with them. However, both given names and surnames were often “Americanized” in the ...

Names and Personalities It's been said and written many times that we become our names and our names become us. From this, several obvious questions evolve: Can something as simple as our names have a profound impact on who we end up becoming? C...

What Names Tell Us Over the course of 20 years as a journalist and author, I've conducted thousands of interviews with people I've never met before, much less seen. From the beginning, I often found myself anticipating what the interview would b...

What's in a Name? Maybe the better question to ask is: What isn't? Names are the identifiers by which we are known to the world. We are introduced by our names and remembered by them. They identify us and classify us. Try to do almost anything w...