Meanings of forename in English

Only close family members dared to call a man by his forename.

My forename is derived from a JD Sallinger character.

I have a strange name, too, that is, forename.

One exception is Canot's forename, which appears as Téodor, Téodore and Theodore throughout the text.

These were called the prænomen (forename), nomen (name), cognomen (surname), and agnomen (added name).

It will probably get custody of my forename.

My thanks to several readers who, for example, have drawn attention to the old Irish forename, Sonabha.

The forename of Buckland's father-

It is no accident that he continues his look at troubled geniuses with a film that includes forename and surname in its title.

His forename was Laurence: Emily, in letters to her father, used to call him Lorenzo the Magnificent, a title which became him well enough.

It's hard to think of another senior British politician who has, in recent decades, been so frequently referred to by only his or her forename.

Flower (The rest were all the original forenames of Phoenix siblings) 8.

But the summary had contained initials instead of forenames.

In this company there rode two men named Jackson, one black, one white, both forenamed John.

Billy Connolly used to do a routine about those posh Scottish forenames that are really last names: Campbell, Murray, Cameron.

All of them are Indian chiefs, from villages near Manila; and all are presumably converts, as all bear Christian forenames.