personal name
English
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editpersonal name (plural personal names)
- A proper name identifying an individual person, especially the full name.
- 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:
- An example of this is the word Os—'a god', which was often used as an initial element in OE personal names, but is hardly ever found in independent use […]