names

Snooki Would Like You to Call Her By Her Real Name Now

Brian Moylan · 01/05/11 12:30PM

Jersey Shore heffalump Snooki told the Daily News that she'd like to be called by her real name, Nicole, now that she's a published author. Here are some good reasons why that will never happen.

Jargon Tweak Saves Magazines

Hamilton Nolan · 10/01/10 09:48AM

Adios, "Magazine Publishers of America." Hello, "MPA—the Association of Magazine Media." The name symbolizes "how readers can engage with magazines...through nontraditional means like Web sites, mobile devices, tablets, events, social media, books, retail presences and even branded merchandise." Oh...clearly.

Should Foreign Names Be Allowed in the City Where Ground Zero Is?

Hamilton Nolan · 08/26/10 01:12PM

Your neighbors: can you trust them? Well, more than you could 100 years ago, when kindly "Mr. Smith" next door may have been a dirty German who changed his name. Today, foreigners just rub our faces in their un-American pronunciations.

Everyone Is Naming Their Kids After Vampires

Adrian Chen · 05/08/10 06:11PM

What we name our children says more about who we are than who we hope they will be. And in the case of 2009's most-popular baby names, we are apparently people who love the Twilight series of books and movies.

Some People Give Their Kids Really Shitty Names

Ravi Somaiya · 02/26/10 07:17AM

Meet Stan Still, Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Bill Board. They're among the names a survey revealed actual parents gave to their actual children — human beings, remember — because they thought they were funny.