Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.

When Franny's principal announces her full name at a ceremony, everyone bursts out laughing. So she decides to go back in time and change her name. However, Franny ends up having to face her evil self in a fourth-dimensional battle of the minds. Full color. When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at school, mad scientist Franny K. Stein experiments with time in order to return to the past and give herself a more dignified name.

When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.

Disliking her name as written in English, Korean-born Yoon, or "shining wisdom," refers to herself as "cat," "bird," and "cupcake," as a way to feel more comfortable in her new school and new country.

Mirha questions her name after her classmates continually pronounce it wrong on the first day of school so her mother helps her to learn the significance of her name and to be proud of it.

A porcupine named Fluffy is happier with his name after he meets a similarly misnamed rhinoceros.

"When Sophie's new sister won't stop crying, only two-year-old Sophie can communicate with her, even if she isn't using her words as her parents want her to"--

Eight-year-old David is convinced that his life will be more adventurous when he changes his name to Ali Baba.