Navigating the world as the parent of a child with a unique or difficult-to-pronounce name can be a constant source of frustration. When I named my daughter Chiara, I never considered that people ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misidentified the school system Keshav Malani attended in California. He was enrolled in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. After immigrating to ...

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, said that the former governor’s name was often botched, too. Indeed, Como, like ...

Pronouncing a person’s name correctly matters, especially in professional situations. Yet those of us with names that may be considered “unusual,” “foreign” or “difficult to pronounce” constantly find ...

I stared, frozen at a website my colleague sent me to record how to correctly pronounce my name. All I have to do is record myself saying it, and I’ll have a link for the benefit of others, but I ...

Editor's take: Few things are as embarrassing as realizing on the spot that you don't know how to correctly pronounce someone's name. Do you try to sound it out as you go or just run with the first ...

Gisele Bündchen is an internationally known supermodel, but people apparently struggle to get her name right. A clip from her 2005 appearance on "Late Night with Conan O’Brien" has resurfaced online, ...

In the 1980s and ’90s, I worked in a manufacturing plant with Ken Quach. Ken literally came to America when his family fled Vietnam after the Vietnam War. To my knowledge, “Ken” wasn’t his original ...

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan stars in the Netflix hit series "Never Have I Ever," which audiences have been bingeing ever since the second season dropped on July 15. In the show, Ramakrishnan plays a ...

With all eyes on the latest hot property in the transfer market Rasmus Hojlund, it's time to learn to pronounce the soon-to-be Manchester United star's name properly. When it come ...