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Meanings of given names in English
Name typically used to differentiate people from the same family, clan, or other social group who have a common last name.
Synonyms
Examples for "forename"
Examples for "forename"
1
Only close family members dared to call a man by his forename.
2
My forename is derived from a JD Sallinger character.
3
I have a strange name, too, that is, forename.
4
One exception is Canot's forename, which appears as Téodor, Téodore and Theodore throughout the text.
5
These were called the prænomen (forename), nomen (name), cognomen (surname), and agnomen (added name).
1
No good could come following the gul's use of his given name.
2
Drake, whose given name is Aubrey Drake Graham, is not a defendant.
3
The given name of the hero may or may not be significant.
4
Folks in Marion who knew Citizen Drew had forgotten his given name.
5
The first in the line had actually gone by his given name, Graham.
1
In the case of Captain Kelp, Trouble was actually his first name.
2
Forgive me, you don't know that Mr. Socrates' first name is Alan.
3
The original version of this story incorrectly stated Mr. Cookson's first name.
4
Nick knew to always use the familiar first name if you could.
5
Mariel's tone and the use of Berman's first name caught his attention.
Usage of given names in English
1
Forgive me, you who were born and died without being given names.
2
By this time they had given names to all the chief localities.
3
I don't know the given names of my father's and mother's parents.
4
By this, the forces in opposition are given names, and aspects.
5
Many of the rescued animals are given names indicating where they were rescued.
6
Nikki and the twins have even given names to all those bizarre animals.
7
They had observed and even given names to the principal constellations.
8
Instead, this menu shows the interfaces using their interface type and UNIX- given names.
9
To-day we called each other by our given names for the first time.
10
Some given names are surrounded by a whole flotilla of stable-names.
11
To keep everything straight, hundreds, even thousands of species had to be given names.
12
She stopped responding when called by either of her given names, even at school.
13
They had given names the most tender to objects in appearance the most indifferent.
14
Her given names were Nancy Rose, her maiden name Barbato.
15
There is a route from Councillor to Councillor, given names.
16
Before Linnaeus, plants were given names that were expansively descriptive.
This collocation consists of:
Translations for given names
Portuguese
Spanish
Given names through the time
Given names across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common