Until earlier this year, one 19-year-old student from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, was known as Shohrukh to his friends and family. But he recently decided to ditch his "purely Tajik" first name and ...

At the 2020 Grammys, DJ Khaled announced that he had just welcomed a baby boy named Alam (which means “the world”) — but he’s far from the only fan of the beautiful Arabic name with Muslim roots.

Names can be fascinating personal and cultural markers. What parents decide to name their children may be a window into what they believe or simply a reflection of their tastes. Trends in naming ...