Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parents sometimes opt for short, one-syllable names to balance out a longer last name or j. (Getty Images) There’s a category of ...

Congrats—you’re having a girl! Now you just need to settle on a name. Sure, there are plenty of fanciful, three-syllable options if you’re looking for something sing-songy and unmistakably feminine, ...

10. Shrek Starting the list off green, this one's for the kids. Say what you will about the series, the original Shrek was something no one had done before: It took the standard fairy tale and flipped ...

This Irish variant of the biblical name John has Hebrew origins and a meaning of “God is gracious.” This edgy, gender-neutral name of British origin means “gray-haired” and can be spelled with an “a” ...

In a response to my post of last week, Robert Lane Greene provided a link to an editorial in The Economist consisting entirely of one-syllable words. It’s an impressive feat, but after a bit, with no ...