To help standardize documents, people’s names are often listed in capital letters on official documents such as birth certificates and passports. We found no evidence supporting the baseless claim ...

Parmalee’s “Take My Name” is No. 1 on Billboard‘s year-end Country Airplay Songs chart for 2022, and its success caught even the band by surprise. “It’s a big honor,” says the band’s frontman, Matt ...

Growing up in Massachusetts, I never had a major problem with my first name, but I always wanted to spell it differently. Karen struck me as neither interesting nor creative or unique, so I wanted to ...

I don't have a common name, and I would dread my first day of school. I thought that once I got a job, people would make more of an effort to spell my name correctly. Now I correct people every time ...

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 ...