new name

English

Verb

new name (third-person singular simple present new names, present participle new naming, simple past and past participle new named)

1. Alternative form of newname

Noun

new name (plural new names)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see new,‎ name.
   • 1725, The New-England Courant:

     It seems that she loaded at Santa Cruz, in Barbary, with Wax, Copper, fine Matts, &c with which she sailed for Marseilles, but the Night after they put to sea, the Crew rose, killed the Capt. Super-Cargo, Mate, Surgeon, &c. and then new named the Ship, calling her the Revenge.

   • 1821, William Shakespeare (commentary by Edmond Malone), Poems and Plays - Volume 3, page 230:

     The King and the Subject, June 5, 1638. Acted by the same company. This title, Sir Henry Herbert says, was changed. I suspect it was new named The Tyrant. The play is lost.

   • 2012, Robert Southey, History of Brazil, page 347:

     When Zarate left the Plata he thought himself entitled to new name that river, and ordered that it should from thenceforth be called Vizcaya, the Biscay, he himself being a Biscayan.