personal names
What people call themselves
Personal names are the words by which individuals are identified—first names, surnames, nicknames, and everything in between.
Unlike common nouns, personal names designate specific people rather than categories: Have you met Sarah?
Names carry cultural weight, signaling ethnicity, religion, generation, or family history.
Parents choose names; individuals sometimes change them.
The study of personal names is called onomastics.
- monikerInformal designation for someone
- name originsSources of naming conventions
- pen nameAuthor's assumed identity
- stage namePerformer's professional alias
- naming conventionsStandards for assigning labels
nickname · pet name · middle · full name · alias · tombstone · first · signature · given · title · name tag · birth · maiden · name change · birth certificate · handshake · surname · register
- namingnomenclature, nicknames, naming conventions, aliases, monikers
- Danishdefinite articles, indefinite articles, verb conjugation, passive voice, word order
- cuneiform studiescuneiform, cuneiform tablets, clay tablets, tablets, scribes
- Andalusian Arabicborrowings, texts, glosses
- Basque languageregional dialects, language isolate, agglutination, standardization, Basque Country
- etymologyword origins, word history, word origin, etymon, root words
personal namescommon nouns
Generic object words
titles · honorifics · nicknames · place names · toponyms
personal namesanonymity
Unknown identity state
namelessness · John Doe · Jane Doe · no name · pseudonyms
personal namesbrand names
Proprietary product identifiers
place names · national identities · family names · clan names
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