Name News

It's your baby, and therefore the baby name decision is all yours. But before you take the plunge, consider these six questions.

Our minds tell some of us that it definitely needs the extra letter. That “s” — so brief, so unobtrusive, so natural sounding — sneaks easily into our lexicon. But oftentimes it’s unnecessary.

A new row has broken out between Brittany and French authorities after a Breton couple were barred from giving their baby their chosen name - because it had an apostrophe in it. The decision has been described as "intolerable linguistic discrimination".

Tough luck if you fancied naming your kid "Legion-King".

The voting rights of minorities are under attack in Georgia — as they are in many GOP-controlled states. This month, however, voters with “foreign” names booked an important win in the Peach State.

Since the SSA's data doesn't account for any hyphens and writes it all as one name, it is impossible to know how these names are truly intended to be written. Perhaps the name was meant to be written as one, or maybe the child received two first names rather than a first and a middle.

Inconsistencies in the use of punctuation marks is making reading official documents and shopping online via smartphones somewhat difficult for China's ethnic minorities.

‘Gettonamen’ worden ze vaak misprijzend genoemd: voornamen die eruit zien alsof de ouders de scrabbledoos hebben omgegooid en het resultaat bij de burgerlijke stand hebben opgegeven. Ghëarmiangelijanno, My’Sheraino, Cher’Li-Vaië, Rea-Frayneleë, de lijst is elk jaar weer eindeloos.

Linguistic battles between the French government and Breton authorities over baby name choices are practically 'de rigeur'. But what are the rules you actually need to follow in France when naming your child?

With around one in six baby girls born in England & Wales now receiving a double-barrelled moniker, the British love affair with the hyphen is well documented on classroom registers around the country. And it's picking up steam for baby boys too: over 2600 of them received a hyphenated name last year, and that's only…

Today's starter for ten: what character appears in roughly one in six baby girl names in Britain today? Your mind might jump to a lesser-used vowel like u or a middle-of-the-road consonant like b or v — but the answer is, in fact... the (not-so-)humble hyphen.

Vandaag werd bekend dat Liam en Emma de populairste voornamen van Nederland zijn. Maar wat is populair? 99 procent van de kinderen kreeg een van de 25.000 andere voornamen die in 2015 zijn gegeven.…

Pluralization FAQs

Q: What if my last name ends in a “y”?
A: Add an “s.” Do not add “ies” or an apostrophe.
Merry Christmas from the Murphys.

Je kent ze wel: van die voornamen die eruitzien alsof de ouders de Scrabbledoos hebben laten vallen. Ghëarmiangelijanno, Romaé-Kyenno, D’Lychêna-Lee... de overzichten van bizarre voornamen staan er...