A lot has also been written about the possible effects that a name might have on a child's future.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

What all this adds up to is a big responsibility for parents to consider what's really in a name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Flem Snopes marries into a powerful family but his wife does not even have a name for him.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Some language experts say the expression came from a name given to noisy supporters of Andrew Jackson...

VOA: special.2010.04.11

All but one of the Great Lakes has a name from Native American languages: Michigan,Huron,Erie and Ontario.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

By the time the baby was a month old, the men decided he needed a name.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

They gave a name to this mysterious continent: Terra Australis Incognita, or the "Unknown Southern Land."

VOA: special.2009.06.03

I tore a piece of paper out of my notebook and wrote down a name.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

Southerners also had a name for their own people who cooperated with the carpetbaggers.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

But she is also making a name for herself as a singer and songwriter.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Lomax is a name well known to historians of American musical culture.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

The earliest example of presidents sharing a name is the Adams family.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

For the scientists who used these cells, HeLa was just a name.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Kaylee,we liked that name. We adopted her and in the hospital they gave her a name of Cali which we didn't like "Caroline was a name that we liked.

VOA: special.2009.07.06