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In this essay, writer and founder and CEO of Girls Who Code Reshma Saujani discusses her frustration but eventual pride in possessing such a distinctly Indian name as an American citizen.
In this essay, actor/writer/producer/director/activist America Ferrara discusses the origin of her unique name and what it's meant to her throughout her life.
The article focuses on the importance of a name and the case of Indian women in this context. In India it is common to hear husbands not addressing their wives by their given names. It was a very strange practice, especially for women. Parents would give a girl-child a name. She'd live with that name until she got married. She would be married off at the age of 13 or 14. My grandmother got married when she was just nine and from that day on she lost her name. In many households, if the bridegroom's family thought it fit to change the name of the bride, they would do so without even asking her permission.
In this article, the author discusses her name and her identity associated with it. She mentions the meaning of her name as ‘freedom' in Chinese. She has a discussion with her mother who explains how her name reflects their family’s background and culture.
Ohio Judge Holds Transgender Teen’s Identity ‘Hostage’: An Ohio Judge Said a Trans Boy’s Wish to Change His Name was Not ‘Reasonable and Proper’ or in Elliott Whitaker’s ‘Best Interest.’ Next Stop: Ohio’s 12th District Court of Appeals – Samantha Allen
Daily Beast (New York). 7/13/2018, p1-1.
Newsbank, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/16D26F3CEFEDA740
In this news article, an Ohio judge ruled against allowing a trans teenager to legally change his name even though he had the support of his parents because he felt the boy was too young to make such a decision.
The article discusses the conciliatory identity facing by the Muslim parents into changing their children names into an easier one. It states that the Muslim families and professionals turned their Muslim names into an English name for ease or to assimilate. It also notes that a name is connected with a person's identity wherein children mature and become reattached to their given Muslim name and develop a new appreciation for it.
In heterosexual marriages, women's marital last name change is a prevalent social custom, but one that was challenged by first- and second-wave feminism. In the present study, we examined whether attitudes, plans, and rationales about marital last name change differed between men and women, and between self-identified feminists and non-feminists.
2014
Middle name initials often appear in formal contexts, especially when people refer to intellectual achievements. On the basis of this common link, the display of middle initials increases positive evaluations of people's intellectual capacities and achievements. We document this effect in seven studies: Middle initials in authors' names increased the evaluation of their writing performance (Study 1), and middle initials increased perceptions of status (Studies 2 and 4). Moreover, the middle initials effect was specific to intellectual performance (Studies 3 and 6), and it was mediated by perceived status (Studies 5–7). Besides supporting our hypotheses, the results of these studies yield important implication for everyday life
2011
In addition to deciding whether to buy an item, consumers can often decide when they buy an item. This article links the speed with which adults acquire items to the first letter of their childhood surname. We find that the later in the alphabet the first letter of one’s childhood surname is, the faster the person acquires items as an adult. We dub this the , and we propose that it stems from childhood ordering structures that put children with different names in different positions in lines. For example, since those late in the alphabet are typically at the end of lines, they compensate by responding quickly to acquisition opportunities. In addition to responding quicker, we find that those with late alphabet names are more likely to acquire an item when response time is restricted and they find limited time offers more appealing than their early alphabet counterparts.
The article discusses how various U.S. law students such as Brittany Morgan-Glenn are offering free legal services to assist transgender clients with name change-related issues, and it mentions supervising adjunct professor Kelly Burden Lindstrom's work as a staff attorney on the Name & Gender Marker Change Project that was launched by the John Marshall Law School's Pro Bono Program & Clinic in July 2016. LGBT advocacy and Illinois' legal name and gender marker change process are assessed.
