Code names for in-production movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey was referred to as “How the Solar System Was Won” during production, while Alien was known as “Star Beast”.

People with names beginning with the letter A tend to live longer than people with a name starting with D, with one study finding a correlation with school grading systems, A being a successful grade, D obviously not so good.
The study, led by academics at Wayne State University in Detroit, America revealed that people [...]

The origins, and meanings, of some well known rock band names.

Incredible, women apparently have more chance of winning top paying jobs if they a masculine name, such as Quentin Bryce for example, who is Australia’s first female Governor-General.
Women with masculine names make more money as lawyers than those with feminine names and are more likely to be appointed to judgeships, say researchers at Clemson [...]

Interesting premise, the rise of the internet and even globalisation has not created the global village that many people predicted it would.
At least this is the opinion of two researchers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, after studying names given to babies since 1995. They found naming trends tended to remain local rather global despite [...]

Devising a new name for a corporate entity, especially a big end of town enterprise, certainly is not a matter of taking a few suggestions from some staff and then putting the choices to a vote…
The first step was to interview key executives at the massive new entity, then known only by its code name [...]

Top Ten Ludicrous Architecture Firm Names: ten reasons to take care when choosing a name for a business.
The news that HOK Sport Venue Event has – quite possibly – turned itself into Populous has opened the mental floodgates over here at HQ, turning off the faucet of reason and on the tap of insanity.

A list of names and terms, whether they be characters, institutions, or fighter craft, from the Star Wars movies that are not actually mentioned in the films themselves, or if they are, not until well after they are first seen.

The recent hacking of a forum, and the subsequent posting of its users passwords online, revealed just how little care is taken in setting some of them. For instance several people were literally using “password”…
Robert Graham, of Dark Reading, published some findings about the patterns used in the hacked passwords last week. The list of [...]

Take away the hard work of choosing a name for your baby with What A Lovely Name:
You can browse by tradition, or personality trait, or even check out what celebrities are naming their children (these can be names to choose or to avoid as you see fit).

Thankfully TomKat doesn’t seem to be an option…