Should we name streets after controversial people? What do these names say about a city’s identity?

Would you ever name your daughter Cinderella? What about Elsa? Tiana? Ariel?

Maybe you weren’t influenced by Disney while you were looking for your baby girl’s first name, but according to an article appearing in the Huffington Post, a lot of US Americans have been. Using data from the Social Security Administration, writers Jan Diehm and Alissa Scheller explore the Disney Princess effect on girls’ names in the United States.

Naming a baby can be an emotional process. Cosmopolitan recently published a take on the stages of this journey. Can you relate?

Here’s a video to help you pronounce challenging Ikea product names. As a bonus, you’ll learn what these Swedish product names mean.

This catalogue of Sephardic Jewish Surnames is thanks to Attorney Yoram Zara, who specializes in obtaining Portuguese citizenship for Sephardi Jews,

“Can you spot the prescription drug names among Elf names from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium? Test your Elven race IQ.” It’s surprisingly difficult.

Many families have naming traditions. The pressure to give your child your own name can be freeing or stifling. In this blog post, Joanna Goddard of cupofjo.com talks to her friend Mary Keith about this tradition.

LEME, of the Lexicons of Early Modern English, is a new data-base for researchers interested in historical linguistics. The data-base currently contains more than 750,000 word entries from the years 1480 to 1755. The primary sources used for the digitized compilation include lexicons from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration Periods. Users of the LEME can search for entries by date, title, author, subject, and genre.

What does your name tell strangers about your biological age? According to lovers of statistics and onomastics, perhaps more than you might imagine. In this interesting article, Nate Silber and Allison McCann explain how you can tell someone’s age, when all you have is their first name.