If you're looking for a truly one-of-a-kind name for your baby girl, this list has plenty of beautiful, strong, and meaningful options that aren't in the top 500 most popular names. There are names ...

Enter Pope Francis. The first Jesuit pope. The first from Latin America. It is, indeed, a historic moment for the papacy. Those who waited for a leader from the new Catholic world will no doubt be ...

In the earliest days of urban development in the United States, we named streets most often after landmarks like a church or a market, canal or a wall. Later topographical features like hill were used ...

In a previous piece in these pages, I discussed the importance of the semantics of traditional Jewish female names. In various countries, Jewish women have often had personal names with pleasant ...

In "A Dictionary Of First Names," Patrick Hanks, a lexicographer, onomastician, and corpus linguist, and a team of authors have identified the origin and meaning of more than 6,000 first names. We ...

Our names are so important to us. We use them every day, and they're central to our identities. But did you know that they all have their own unique meanings? Psychotherapist and author Eloise Skinner ...

Have you ever wondered where Long Island towns got their names? From Copiague to Quogue and everything in between, we've uncovered the origins of your hometown using municipal websites, information ...