Last week’s winner came back to defend her title, and she did not come to lose.

Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5) spent the week insisting her name is Ilhan Abdullahi Omar. Federal prosecutors, in a D.C. court filing tied to an immigration fraud investigation, called her something else: Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. That is also the name of her first legal husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

Some in the press hurried to explain that women often take their husband’s last name. That is true in Minneapolis. It is not how names work in Somalia. There, a person carries a given name, then the father’s name, then the grandfather’s, then the great-grandfather’s, and a woman does not usually trade hers away at the wedding. Two people who share “Nur Said Elmi” are, by that tradition, naming the same father, the same grandfather, and the same great-grandfather.

Asked directly whether she and her ex-husband are related, the congresswoman said, “Not to my knowledge.” Most of us know who our siblings are without having to consult our knowledge.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the........

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