personal name

English

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Noun

personal name (plural personal names)

1. 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 […]

Synonyms

• full name

Related terms

• family name
• first name
• forename
• given name
• last name
• middle name
• surname

Translations

personal name

• German: Eigenname (de) m

See also

• anthroponym