It’s no secret that Yale is filled with an endless variety of fashionable study spots. From the entrepreneurial tables of Tsai CITY, to the desolation of the stacks, below to Bass’s myriad of reading ...

Roots of 50,000 Irish and British last names were uncovered as part of the “The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland” published in 2016. A name can tell you a lot about a person, ...

What can surnames tell us about the culture, genetics and history of our society? That is the question being answered by Chinese researchers who have traced the evolution of surnames across China.

Our surnames and genetic information are often strongly connected, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust. The research, published this week in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, ...

Nov. 21 (UPI) --Increasingly, women are keeping their surname when they get married. But they remain a minority, and some researchers suggest the social costs of bucking tradition may explain why.

Modern men are now more likely than ever to take their partner’s name when they get married, according to a study. A study conducted by the London Mint Office revealed that one in 10 young men would ...

According to most historians, Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. However, based on some key facts in the discoverer's biography, as well as in the linguistic analysis of his texts, some ...