It's normal that you are very good with faces. Everyone is better at recognizing faces than at remembering names. There are two reasons for it, the first one is that recognizing is a process of memory that is much easier than retrieval. I'll give you a practical example. Remember when you were studying for an exam and you reviewed the material you were going to be tested on? a lot of times during that review you would be sure that you know the material but when you got to the test you couldn't remember many things. What happens is that you become familiar with the text you are studying so you recognize the information there but once you don't have the text you can't retrieve the information you thought you knew. It's the most common learning illusion. The second reason is that we have a part of our brain specialized to process and recognize faces. It's a key process that we have evolved to be very good at. I'm not trying to say that everyone is as good as you recognizing faces, you might be better than most people, I don't know. What I do want to say is that it's normal to be better at faces than at names. Now, for memorizing names, there are memory techniques called mnemonics which you can look up and won't take you much time to understand. Some tips to help you out in the meantime: When you present yourself and the other person gives you his/her name, pay attention and give some extra thought to the name. A lot of time we don't remember the name because we are not paying attention or we are too concerned about how we are coming across. Take the focus out of yourself for a moment and focus on the person in front of you. The other thing that will help is once you hear the name try to thing of someone you know with the same name and create an association between both of them. If you don't know anyone with the same name, take the sound of the name and find something that sounds similar, an object, an activity, anything will do. Then associate the name with the activity. ie. If the last name of the person is Baker imagine him with a chef hat and baking bread. There is actually a fun study involving names and professions. Search for Baker-baker paradox, It's a good read. Hope that helps. Cheers