Name News

Le monde du football a perdu le "Roi" Pelé en 2022 mais le nom de ce joueur de légende va encore perdurer notamment à travers les 738 enfants péruviens nés l'an dernier.

Temple at Chichen Itza© 2019 Nancy’s anonymous husband During the colonial period (and probably earlier), Mayan children were given personal names that began with either of two gender prefixe…

Indigenous Peruvians often have one name at home and another, usually Spanish, for official purposes. Now registrars are being urged to embrace native languages

Picking out baby names is a difficult task, especially if parents want to make sure their children have unique names. And sometimes they succeed, and other times they succeed but go viral. That’s the case for the parents of a young man from Paraguay, who ended up with a Transformers-inspired name. Optimosprayn Ismael Meza Barboza,[.....]

In the wake of the Qatar victory by Lionel Messi and his team over France in December, the civil registry office for the province of Santa Fe in Argentina reported a 700 percent increase in babies named Lionel or Lionela.

A couple from Argentina gave their newborn son the middle name Covid, and justified their actions by saying he’ll grow up to be a strong man.

These days, when you say the name Shakira, most people think of the Colombian singer (“Hips Don’t Lie”) who became famous in the U.S. in the early 2000s. In fact, the name saw peak usag…

Aside from Amazonie, Vincent Cassel also has two daughters — Léonie, 9 next month, and Deva, 14 — from his previous marriage to actress Monica Bellucci

Der Vorname ist in Brasilien viel wichtiger als der Familienname, weil die Nachnamen dort sehr häufig vorkommen und somit nicht so richtig zur Identifikation

Costa Rican newborns are also frequently being named Keylor since the World Cup in Brazil 2014. It’s still going strong, with many new Keylors joining the world this March.