A legal name is the name that identifies a person for legal, administrative and other official purposes. A person's legal birth name generally is the name...

Name change is the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their current name. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between...

is found in the "legal name fraud" movement, which believes that birth certificates give the state legal ownership of a personal name and that refusing...

term is synonymous with the birth name or legal name of the individual. In linguistic classification, personal names are studied within a specific onomastic...

business names does not create additional separate legal entities. The distinction between a registered legal name and a fictitious business name, or trade...

In law, a legal person is any person or legal entity that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts...

registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name. The assumption in the...

original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individual's own. Many pseudonym holders use them...

birth name or be inspired by nicknames or maiden names. Some performers choose to adopt their stage name as a legal name. Some people take a stage name because...

of their names legally to this order. The order given name - father's given name - grandfather's given name (often referred to as triple name) is the official...

addressed. Chinese name Endonym and exonym - native name and non-native names Human names Legal name List of adjectival forms of place names Name calling – a...

names requires a legal process. When people marry or divorce, the legal aspects of changing names may be simplified or included, so that the new name...

frequent. Dit name Genealogy Generation name Given name Legal name List of family name affixes Lists of most common surnames Maiden and married names Matriname...

while legal incorporation documents are being prepared. In the case of Advent Corporation, founder Henry Kloss decided to adopt this placeholder name as...

A real-name system is a system in which users can register an account on a blog, website or bulletin board system using their legal name. Users are required...

part of their legal names; a further 38.3% of Hongkongers go by English given names even though those are not part of their legal names; the two figures...

name", but this translation has been criticised as misleading, because it could imply an official or legal title. Generally speaking, courtesy names before...

trade name or business name other than their legal name. They may have to trademark their business name legally if it differs from their own legal name, with...

effectively become a mononym, in some cases adopted legally. For some historical figures, a mononym is the only name that is still known today. The word mononym...

also be possible to use surnames that are not part of either parent's legal name, but which the parents would be entitled to use, i.e. a surname from a...

step further and legally changed his name to "Andrew Test Martin". Jim Hellwig, known as The Ultimate Warrior, had his name legally changed to simply...

Appendix:Ghanaian given names in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ghanaian names (or personal names in Ghana) consist of several given names and surnames based...

avoid deadnaming, such as standardizing the use of preferred names rather than legal names or formally banning the practice of deadnaming. As part of gender...

father's current legal name and not necessarily their birth name.) When the suffixes are spelled out in full, they are not capitalized. Social name suffixes are...

omitted in her legal name. For example, former first lady Marta Larraechea very often is called Marta Larraechea de Frei, but her full legal name remains Marta...

first part.) First names are chosen by the child's parents. Nowadays, there are no legal a priori constraints on the choice of names, though this was not...

the common naming conventions of her family, Gopalan Shyamala was her legal name in India, while Shyamala Gopalan conforms to Western name order. Shyamala...

biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool". Names in the Bible can represent human hopes, divine revelations, or...

Hyphenated last names usually correspond to both last names of one of the parents but both last names can be hyphenated, so some Hispanics may legally have two...

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