Mainichi (Google Translate version in English) reports that Professor Hiroshi Yoshida of Tohuku University in Sendai, Japan argues that the most common surname, Sato, will be come universal by the year 2531. Because marr...

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The British tabloid Daily Mail introduces us to He...  ...an sometimes be an unpleasant experience, as some names come with undesirable aromas. Dating can be probl...  ...bella is a smelly sock.There are undesirable male names , too, on Gray's list. Harrison is an itch he can'...

Or, to be more precise, having a name that takes l...  ...ty. An algorithm assessed the pronounceability of names by the "commonality of letter and phoneme combina...  ...of letter and phoneme combinations" within those names .One standard deviation in the time that it takes...  ...e members may address the pron...

Bonus fact: while Sarah and Brian think chicken po...  ...onstant within themselves yet changing over time. Names are trendy, but once you have a common name, it b...

(Say My Name by Raffiti)Celebrities can't just che...  ...celebrities like to go a little silly with their names -for example, Brad Pitt likes to use the moniker...  ...Grayson" -Robin's birthname.You can read the fake names of more celebrities over at Travel and Leisure.

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...t Facebook.Ethel Mertz had three different middle names in I Love Lucy. She was (in various episodes) Eth...  ...as given both Pebble and Slaghoople as her maiden names . Betty Rubble was Betty Jean McBricker before she...

We've all heard someone called so-and-so the second and others called blah-blah-blah Jr. but what makes someone a "Jr" as opposed to a "II"? Thanks to Mental Floss' Big Question, now we know. It seems a Jr. is generally...

Most George Lucas-Ass Names In Baseball- Jett Bandy- Yonder Alonso- Jaff Deck...  ...sults are often wonderfully weird. But real world names are becoming wonderfully weirder every year. Davi...  ..., "What Are the Most Egregiously George Lucas-Ass Names in Baseball?" He though...

I asked my 3yo daughter to guess the names of 80s and 90s @WWE wrestlers pic.twitter.com/KXC...  ...this game. I asked my 3yo daughter to guess the names of some more 80s and 90s wrestlers pic.twitter.co...  ...itter, but the end results are still funny. These names are at le...