Looking for a unique name with some historical cachet? The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources is the place to go. It is a hefty work of scholarship that “aims to contain all given ...

In the latest trend to captivate social media, people are searching for their own names on Urban Dictionary and posting the positive and not-so-positive “definitions.” For those unfamiliar with Urban ...

They’re letting the dictionary define them as a person. Urban Dictionary is often viewed as a sophomoric source for dirty words, but now bored social media users have tapped into the crowd-sourced ...

In case you missed it (but you likely haven’t if you have an Instagram account) yet another trend has gripped Stories users of late. Following on from the widely popular “we’ll plant a tree for every ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

There are so many different ways to think of a baby name for your soon-to-be child. Most parents will either type “unique baby names” into Google, browse through a baby name book they found at their ...

Meera is a journalist based between London and New York. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Vice, The Independent, Vogue India, W Magazine, and others. She was previously a Culture ...