To learn more about Germany, it helps to understand the country's nomenclature. German, unlike the neighboring Romance languages, is famously able to create compound words with ease. It’s the origin ...

Short, sweet and classic—this German name has a lovely meaning of “universal one.” This German diminutive of Margaret means “pearl” and is gaining popularity thanks to Greta Gerwig, the director of ...

In a previous piece in these pages, I discussed the importance of the semantics of traditional Jewish female names. In various countries, Jewish women have often had personal names with pleasant ...