Naming storms, streets or buildings is complicated because names are not just benign words. They are powerful cultural workhorses.
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Parents are more traditional and risk-averse in naming their sons because boys’ names continue to retain more cultural value than girls’ do.
How we name our children follows trends like any other cultural expression. It’s about taste as well as broader societal shifts.
New research shows that there’s much in a name: people will use the sounds in names to infer someone’s physical and personality traits.
The demographics of name change petitioners today – and the reasons that they give – tell a complicated story of race, class and culture.
With the World Chess Championship set to begin Nov. 9 in London, Alexey Root, who teaches online courses about chess in education, tackles some myths and unknowns about the royal game.
A Rose by any other name might not choose to become a gardener, and other odd quirks in how names affect us.
The latest UK baby name data is in. But a name is more than just a noun, it can reveal who you are and where you come from.
Imagine you’re on a spaceship with engine trouble. Your captain knows she must land the ship for repairs. The navigator identifies two viable planets that could do the job. Little is known of either, other…
People with a name that is easy to pronounce are more likely to be offered promotions and rise through the professional and…
American rock band Modest Mouse’s song Black Cadillacs (2004) has a particularly wonderful opening: And it’s true we named our children / After towns that we’ve never been to Inside a song filled with…
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