You may know quite a few women with middle names like Anne, Elizabeth, Lynn, Sue or Marie. For decades, middle names for girls used to be limited to the same basic options. The good news is that the ...

For reasons that don’t entirely hold up under scrutiny, my parents decided to name me in such a way that I'd go by my middle name, rather than my first name, throughout my life. Those of us who suffer ...

Picking your baby's name is almost as important as taking your prenatal vitamins (must), never drinking alcohol during pregnancy (must not), and not fighting with your in-laws about the name you've ...

If you're like me, you've been compiling a list of potential baby names for, like, ever. (Seriously, just check my phone's Notes.) And while I'm sure you already have a pretty extensive list of first ...

I don't have a middle name. Its absence hangs like an empty hammock between my first and last names. Tied low at the "y" in Stacey, it slopes gently upward to the highest part of Brose. I always ...