Name News

Brand name or baby name? They're both! Take a look at the baby names that were inspired by popular brand names in 2019 — some of them might surprise you.

Does a monogram really need to be your initials? Or can it be any three letters you want? One writer muses on the possibilities.

Retail workers are swapping name tags with colleagues to avoid harassment by customers as employers fear staff will walk off the job because of growing threats to their safety.

If you have a baby on Sept. 9, Kentucky Fried Chicken might just give you $11,000.

On Friday, December 15, if you’re in possession of a photo ID bearing the name “Luke” or “Lucas,” and you find yourself near any Luke’s location, the sustainable seafood–sourced eatery will slide over a free lobster roll

Uber's latest and most unusual marketing campaign will see those called Sam or a spin-off the name, offered a week of free rides, worth up to $20 a day.

You're about to have twin girls and you have to give them one of these 6 pairs of names. Which pair do you choose?

Today I have four NEW designs to offer you! 

Here are five ways to test out how a name will work in real life.

My coworker sent me this master sheet of what IKEA product names really mean - for those of us who don't understand Swedish. I was surprised to see so many first names on the list, so I'm sharing my findings with you!

Nick Turner analyzes the impact of corporate brands on baby names.

Our “Curation & Inspiration” posts highlight the products that we love best for new parents, parents to be, and little ones. While we’re not all in a place to shop right now, those who are able to can help out by shopping at Black-owned businesses, which have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. For […]

This week’s name news includes a host of starbaby girls with cool modern monikers, namesake naming at its best (and weirdest), and the secret to choosing a winning name.

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.

I am an illustrator and artist that is in the midst of starting a brick and mortar retail, studio, and gallery space with one of my best friends. We have everything in line - business plan, space, colors, aesthetic...but are completely stuck on a name and we hope to open in November! 

Would you name your baby after an Ikea product?

In-keeping with the Boden aesthetic, its names are a study in just quirky enough, just exotic enough, just classic enough, just cool enough. And they tend to skew just ever-so-slightly younger and funkier than the names you’d expect to see written on the address labels of the brand’s many loyal customers.

Reading strange-sounding Swedish words is part of the joy of shopping at IKEA. Within the labyrinth of stylish flat pack furniture is a pänoply of ödd, åccented pröduct nämes, printed on hang tags, walls and banners. What most shoppers don't know is that the names of those 12,000 products conform to a strict internal logic that offers a peek int

Give a fashion item a person’s name and you are revealing not just what image you want your fashion item to have, but what image you associate with that name.

As a thank you for a donation of any size, we're offering a free personalized name graphic in one of 7 designs!

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If you missed Part One, check it out here: IKEA Names

I have a new little something for you -- not too long ago a friend of mine asked me if I could make up something for her to give to a friend who'd just had a baby -- something that explained the ba...