Even those who long for one world may wish The Namesake would lighten up. Following one immigrant family across decades, The Namesake is an eventful yet overly familiar drama about homeland ties ...

In Northern states, according to a review of federal data, very few schools had Confederate namesakes. But many school boards voted to drop names of controversial presidents, such as James ...

The Social Security Administration has released the 20 most popular baby names of last year, and similar to previous years, names like Liam, Olivia, Noah and Emma are at the top.

There aren't 26 names on the list — the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are left out. When the list of names run out, the World Meteorological Organization begins to defer to a supplemental list.

Names change all the time, for scientific and cultural reasons, and given a choice between stability and respect for people whose ancestors were harmed by early ornithologists, ...