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Paid to pick names: inside the life of a professional baby name consultant on Instagram and YouTube

Young black people are three times more likely to be out of work than white peers, research shows.

Black women are discriminated against for our names. The least you can do is learn them.

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.

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.

We love bad boys when it comes to naming our babies

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…

Name discrimination is alive and well in 2021 – and I can’t help but wonder what impact it’s had on my life

Since 2018, NamSor has been used append gender to authors in RePEC (Research Papers in Economics). Overall, 25.8% of economists are female.

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

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.

“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.