January 01, 2025

Name of People

Vocabulary List Number 389 v.1.1 with 64 entries made up of 5 chapters with 21 definitions, 5 synonyms and 38  examples. Published on Jan 1, 2025. Latest update Dec 19, 2025.

 

         1. Main Definitions


  1. name|n| a language unit by which a person or thing is known. (From Vocabulary.com Dictionary . Nov 26, 2025.
  2. name|n| a language unit by which a person or thing is known. (From Vocabulary.com Dictionary . Nov 26, 2025.)
  3.  "His name really is George Washington.” (From Vocabulary.com. Nov 26, 2025.)
  4. “Those are two names for the same thing.” (From Vocabulary.com. Nov 26, 2025.)
  5. "In the business world he goes by the name of J. Walter Fortune." (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  6. "I'm here to pick up my tickets - I reserved them by phone yesterday in the name of Tremin." (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  7. "Please would you check in at the reception desk and sign your name in the book." (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  8. "I can't think of her name - it'll come back to me later." (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  9. "What's the file name?" (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  10. "The police officers were taking down the names of witnesses." (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  11. "She slapped him and called him names, but he didn't react." (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)


         2. Kind of Names

  1. first name / forename / given name |n| the name that precedes the surname. (From Vocabulary.com. Nov 26,
    2025.)
  2. "We only knew him as Mr Fletcher - he never told us his first name." (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  3. "My father and I both have the same first name, John, although he is usually known by his nickname, Jack." (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  4. "It can be rude to call people by their first name if they are much older or more important than you." (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  5. "Staff and pupils at the school were on first-name terms. (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  6. "It can be rude to call people by their first name if they are much older or more important than you." (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  7. "Staff and pupils at the school were on first-name terms. (From Cambridge Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  8. middle name 1 |n| a name between your first name and your surname. (From Vocabulary.com. Nov 27, 2025.)
  9. "President John F. Kennedy's middle name was Fitzgerald." (From Merriam Webster. Nov 29, 2025.)
  10. "Kimberly Lee Kessler -- kind of a silly middle name, isn't it? (From ABC News, 29 Nov. 2025.)
  11. "Blakely Rae Roberts, who shares her middle name with her great-grandmother, GG, and sees her most days, loves playing doctor at home." (From Seth Carnell, USA Today, 29 Nov. 2025.)
  12. "Here are all the details on his Spanish first name and cute vintage middle name." (From Sarah Scott, Parents. 29 Nov. 2025.)
  13. "In the videos, Álvarez, 39, hardly looks the part of an insurgent fighter who went by the nickname Alex, short for her middle name Alexandra." (From Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald. 29 Nov. 2025.)
  14. middle name 2 |n| a term that is particularly apt to denote a person's qualities or affinities. (From Merriam Webster. Nov 29, 2025.)
  15. "Patience is her middle name." (From Merriam Webster. Nov 29, 2025.)
  16. nick / nickname|n|a name given to someone, especially by their friends or family, that is not their real name and is often connected with what they look like or something they have done. (From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Dec 19, 2025)
  17. "We had nicknames for all the teachers.
  18.  Stephen earned himself the nickname Hawkeye." (From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Dec 19, 2025)
  19. "She was nicknamed Sunny because of her happy nature." (From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Dec 19, 2025)
  20. "A nickname can mark just one incident in the life of the person concerned." (From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Dec 19, 2025)
  21. "At school, her nickname was Carrots because of her red hair." (From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Dec 19, 2025)
  22. tittle 1 |n| official or honorary designations like Mr., Mrs., Dr., or Lord. (From Collins Dictionary. Dec 19, 2025)
  23. tittle 2|n| a person holding a title especially of nobility. (From Merriam Webster. Dec 19, 2025)


          3. More about Name
  1. alias 1 / assumed name / false name|n| used to indicate that a named person is also known or more familiar under another specified name. (From Oxford Languages. Nov 27, 2025.)
  2. alias 2 |n| your alias could be as important as the name you use when you’re on the run or as simple as your screen name on a social networking site. Either way, an alias is a temporary name, one you don’t use all the time or for every occasion. (From Oxford Languages. Nov 29, 2025.)
  3. "Eric Blair, alias George Orwell." (From Oxford Languages. Nov 27, 2025.)
  4. "That Holmes would use an alias seemed beyond doubt, so Geyer brought along his photographs, even a depiction of the children’s distinctive “flat-top” trunk." (From The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. Nov. 30, 2025.)
  5. “It’s taken time, I swear. I went through this whole emo phase in middle school where I played with the alias ‘Rick." (From When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. Nov 30, 2025.)
  6. "When Holmes met Minnie, he was traveling on business under the alias Henry Gordon and found himself invited to a gathering at the home of one of Boston’s leading families." (From The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. Nov. 30, 2025.)
  7. "It said a good criminal chooses a alias that’s kind of close to their own name." (From Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Nov. 30, 2025.)
  8. alias 3 |adv| alias can also be used as an adverb to mean "also known as".
  9. "Your parents might be less than thrilled when you introduce your new boyfriend, "John Smith, alias Lock-Jaw Johnnie, wanted in 39 states." (From Vocabulary.com Dictionary . Nov 26, 2025.)
  10. birth name|n| the surname given a person at birth.
  11. false name |n| a name that has been assumed temporarily. (Fom Vocabulary.com. Nov 27, 2025.)
  12. misnomer 1 |n| a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation. (From Collins Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  13. misnomer 2 |n|  an error in naming a person or thing. (From Collins Ductionary. Nov 29, 2025.)
  14. nickname / nick |n|a descriptive name for a place or thing. (From Vocabulary.com. Nov 27, 2025.)
  15. pseudonym |n| a fictitious name, especially one used by an author. (From Oxford Languages. Nov 27, 2025.)
  16. "I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey." (From Oxford Languages. Nov 27, 2025.)
  17. surname |n| a hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a forename or given name. (From Oxford Languages. Nov 29, 2025.)
  18. "He changed his surname from Kaye to Kasmin." (From Oxford Languages. Nov 29, 2025) 
  19. "As with Daria, the Journal agreed to withhold her surname." (From Thomas Grove, WSJ. 29 Nov 2025.)
  20. "Still, that’s gotta be a good sign on our nerd-quest that the lone Tiger with a 3.14 ERA with the franchise that shares his surname, right?" (From Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press. 14 Mar. 2025.)
  21. "In Spain, 20% percent of people in the country have one of the 10 most common surnames." (Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News. 29 Nov 2025)


        4. Terms Related to the Wife's Name

  1. née |adj| (meaning literally born) used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
  2. “Mrs Parker, née Carter.”
  3. maiden name |n| a woman’s family name before she is married. Used of a surname that is replaced by a woman when she marries. Also called birth name.


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