This year the Akkademja tal-Malti celebrated its 100th anniversary. Originally set up to streamline the Maltese alphabet, over the years its role evolved and it now focuses on promoting the national ...

While it will soon be possible to make minor changes to one's name to include Maltese letters, such changes cannot be made to surnames due to the fact that these surnames have ancestral and historical ...

Ġanni is the first official name to be recorded at the Public Registry using Maltese alphabet characteristics, the government said. Prior to electronic upgrades to the Public Registry, the name would ...

A baby boy called Ġanni is the first child to be officially named using Maltese fonts after an IT system change that recognises letters in the national language. For the first time since the system ...

Luca and Mia were the most popular names for boys and girls respectively last year, information obtained from Identity Malta shows. The two most popular Maltese names, utilising the Maltese alphabet, ...

Registration of a child's name can be made using Maltese-language characters, Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship and Communities Alex Muscat announced in a statement today. The first Maltese name ...