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Paid to pick names: inside the life of a professional baby name consultant on Instagram and YouTube
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Young black people are three times more likely to be out of work than white peers, research shows.
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Black women are discriminated against for our names. The least you can do is learn them.
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Read about a fun naming tool from USDirect.com that, based on their collected data, looks at five career categories your name or baby's name will be most famous in.
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Black Asian Minority and Ethic workers, also known as BAME, revealed they have directly or indirectly been told to use more English sounding names in the workplace.
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What’s My Line? (1950-1967) was one of the longest-running game shows on television — not to mention one of the earliest. The word “line” in the title didn’t refer to …
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If you go by Aileen or Eileen and then go back to your old name, that’s okay. Nobody’s keeping score.
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We love bad boys when it comes to naming our babies
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In ancient times, well-to-do Romans didn’t have to worry about remembering people’s names. Why? Because they had special name-remembering slaves to do the job for them. These slaves wer…
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Name Blind CVs Numerous studies demonstrate that certain names are more likely to be chosen for a job than others. Not only is it harder to get a job if your name isn't Anglo-Saxon, but there is a preference for names that are common and easy to pronounce. Because of this unconscious name bias, several…
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J'avais apprécié la lexicologie commerciale de Mathieu Garnier (@matamix). J'ai donc téléchargé les données disponibles sur infogreffe (greffes des tribunaux de commerce). Et j'ai exploré la fréquences des prénoms dans les intitulés des entreprises (dans les données de 2013).
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Have you actually met a John or a Maggie who became Jan or Gosia in Poland, or Juan and Greta? No? Me neither. And if this is so, there is more to name translation than meets the eye. Translating names mostly goes one way. Somehow ‘we’ must translate our names into English, and ‘you’ don’t have to translate yours into Polish, Estonian, Romanian or Slovak.
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A civil servant from Indonesia has named his son 'Department Of Statistical Communication' and said that, although it "sounded strange at first", his wife was happy with the choice
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Name discrimination is alive and well in 2021 – and I can’t help but wonder what impact it’s had on my life
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Since 2018, NamSor has been used append gender to authors in RePEC (Research Papers in Economics). Overall, 25.8% of economists are female.
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Miss Manners: I feel like they should know my correct name by now. Plus: They'll ask me where my husband is, and I don't want to say he's being a jerk.
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Inspired by the name which the bassist of the band Mötley Crüe’s gave his child, “Storm”, she changed her name her name to Stormy Waters
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Freakanomics made me think, can a name be damaging to one’s psyche?
I asked my friends on Facebook to tell me about actual people they know or knew that I could add to the list. These are real people, remember. Here they are:
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Most importantly, let us become conscious of the role each of us play in society in ensuring that we don't merely tolerate difference, be in it in name or otherwise, but rather, we celebrate it.
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“Dropping your pants and [urinating] in the person’s briefcase would be only a little ruder than calling him/her by his/her first name.”
But some companies are looking to eliminate some of this hierarchy. The best way to do that, it seems, is dictating that employees take English names.
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La base Sirène de l'INSEE nous donne les prénoms des entrepreneurs et des entrepreneuses. Il est ainsi possible de voir que des secteurs différents ont des entrepreneurs différents.
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Which (if any) of these theories do you think makes the most sense? What others can you think of?
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Fünf Jahre lang arbeitete ein gelernter Krankenpfleger als Arzt. Die Schwindelei flog auf, weil er seinen Vornamen nicht leiden konnte.
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