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

In some cases the child takes the mother's surname as a middle name and the father's name as the family name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

In Miami, Florida, one man hopes a resolution from last year will go better in 2009: My name's Glenn Mitchell.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He says Poe's influence can also be seen in the work of H.G.Wells and Alfred Hitchcock,to name a few.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

Here is a recording from the movie. Hepburn's character, Eva,tells about how she has changed her name in preparation for becoming a great actress.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Mister McMahon's grandfather,Jess, started the company under a different name in the early nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

They put two thousand dollars in a bank in Missus Trotter's name.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

"He felt that a womans name -- and she wrote about his -- that a womans name should appear in the newspaper when she married and when she died.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?

VOA: special.2009.04.12

And I hadn't seen him in 10 years. His name is Billy Harvey, and he's a producer in town .

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

Leaving Texas for the bright lights of Chicago, Miller made a name for himself on the city's electrifying blues circuit, playing in groups led by Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27