Growing up, I always dreaded the first day of school. I winced and braced myself as the teacher traveled down the roster. I always knew my name was next when it was introduced with an awkward chuckle ...

A New Mexico mom has gone viral for revealing that her first name is also her last name. Bailey Grace Bailey took to TikTok in January to share how she became Bailey squared. “It’s spelled exactly the ...

His name is Harry Potter — but he’s not a wizard. A British man in his twenties named Harry Potter was born six months before J.K. Rowling’s “Philosopher’s Stone” was published in the UK in 1997. The ...

Growing up in Egypt, no one could pronounce my name correctly. Then, when I moved to Canada, people questioned whether it was my real name. Complaining about a name feels like a first-world problem, ...

In 2018, comedian and Academy-award-winning actress Mo’Nique asked the Black community to boycott Netflix for racial and gender bias. The streaming giant offered her $500,000 for a comedy special. But ...

In a chatty and candid new memoir, Barbra Streisand talks about her early determination to be famous and tallies the hurdles and helpers she met along the way. Barbra Streisand in a still from “Funny ...

When I learned Isabel Allende's new book, The Wind Knows My Name, is set in my hometown of Nogales, Arizona, among other places real and mystical, I put it on the top of my reading list. 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 ...