People have always told me not to change my name. Some insisted that they liked it: Bich, a Vietnamese name, given to me in Saigon, where I was born and where the name is quite ordinary. When my ...

Some American parents have been breaking the patrilineal tradition for generations, but the number who do so remains small. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller has her mother’s last name as a ...

Julia DiPrete is a freelance writer, former BigLaw attorney, unapologetic night owl, and Xennial. She has worked in law school career services and legal recruiting and has blogged extensively both in ...

Adam Hardy is a former assistant editor at Forbes Advisor, where he covered small business and tech. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Penny Hoarder, specializing in the gig economy and ...

Dale Carnegie, the self-made titan of self-help, swore by the social power of names. Saying someone’s name, he wrote in How to Win Friends and Influence People, was like a magic spell, the key to ...

Names hold incredible power. They are among the first things people learn about you and they often leave a lasting impression. Whether you're considering changing your name after a significant life ...

My mum named me after the Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachan, a suave star of Indian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. The reference was entirely lost on my classmates at school in a very white part of ...

Zalis is a pioneer for online research, movement leader, and champion of gender equality. She is an internationally renowned entrepreneur, speaker, mentor, and CEO of The Female Quotient. Women today ...

About a year before Christine Mallinson gave birth to her first child, she and her husband agreed that all of their children would take her last name. The decision came down to family cohesion: The ...

Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with centuries of Catholic history and dissected for its many layers of meaning.

For most people, introductions are a fleeting formality, an exchange of names accomplished in seconds. However, for Laurence Watkins, this simple task becomes an extraordinary feat of endurance. To ...

… then I found out about the rest of us. It was on my first day of college at the University of California, Berkeley, when I started to realize there were more of us out there. Suddenly, I was among a ...