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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Call name" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="Call_name_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Call name (disambiguation)">Call name (disambiguation)</a>.</div>

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<p>A <b>given name</b> (also known as a <b>forename</b> or <b>first name</b>) is the part of a <a href="Personal_name" title="Personal name">personal name</a><sup id="cite_ref-grigg-1991_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grigg-1991-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that identifies a person, potentially with a <a href="Middle_name" title="Middle name">middle name</a> as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a <a href="Family" title="Family">family</a> or <a href="Clan" title="Clan">clan</a>) who have a common <a href="Surname" title="Surname">surname</a>. The term <i>given name</i> refers to a <a href="Name" title="Name">name</a> usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A <i><a href="Christian_name" title="Christian name">Christian name</a></i> is the first name which is given at <a href="Baptism" title="Baptism">baptism</a>, in Christian custom.

</p><p>In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner.<sup id="cite_ref-grigg-1991_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grigg-1991-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "<span lang="en"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_a_first-name_basis#English" class="extiw external" title="wikt:on a first-name basis">on a first-name basis</a></span>" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name.<sup id="cite_ref-grigg-1991_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grigg-1991-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or <a href="Gentile_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Gentile name"><i>gentile</i> name</a>) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Regnal_name" title="Regnal name">Regnal names</a> and <a href="Religious_name" title="Religious name">religious or monastic names</a> are special given names bestowed upon someone receiving a crown or entering a religious order; such a person then typically becomes known chiefly by that name.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name_order">Name order</h2></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Personal_name#Name_order" title="Personal name">Personal name § Name order</a></div>

<p>The order <i>given name – family name</i>, commonly known as <i>Western name order</i>, is used throughout most <a href="Europe" title="Europe">European</a> countries and in countries that have cultures predominantly influenced by European culture, including <a href="North_America" title="North America">North</a> and <a href="South_America" title="South America">South America</a>; <a href="North_India" title="North India">North</a>, <a href="East_India" title="East India">East</a>, <a href="Central_India" title="Central India">Central</a> and <a href="Western_India" title="Western India">West India</a>; <a href="Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, <a href="New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, and the <a href="Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>.

</p><p>The order <i>family name – given name</i>, commonly known as <i>Eastern name order</i>, is primarily used in <a href="East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asia</a> (for example in <a href="China" title="China">China</a>, <a href="Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>, <a href="Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, <a href="Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, and <a href="Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>, among others, and by <a href="Malaysian_Chinese" title="Malaysian Chinese">Malaysian Chinese</a>), as well as in <a href="South_India" title="South India">Southern</a> and <a href="Northeast_India" title="Northeast India">North-Eastern</a> parts of <a href="India" title="India">India</a>, and as a standard in <a href="Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>. This order is also used to various degrees and in specific contexts in other European countries, such as <a href="Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a> and adjacent areas of <a href="Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> (that is, <a href="Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in <a href="France" title="France">France</a>, <a href="Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, <a href="Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, <a href="Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> and <a href="Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, possibly because of the influence of bureaucracy, which commonly puts the family name before the given name. In China and Korea, <a href="Generation_name" title="Generation name">part of the given name</a> may be shared among all members of a given generation within a family and extended family or families, in order to differentiate those generations from other generations.

</p><p>The order <i>given name – father's family name – mother's family name</i> is commonly used in several <a href="Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>-speaking countries to acknowledge the families of both parents.

</p><p>The order <i>given name – mother's family name – father's family name</i> is commonly used in <a href="Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>-speaking countries to acknowledge the families of both parents. Today, people in Spain and Uruguay can rearrange the order of their names legally to this order.

</p><p>The order <i>given name – father's given name – grandfather's given name</i> (often referred to as <i>triple name</i>) is the official naming order used in <a href="Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> countries (for example <a href="Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> and <a href="United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a>).

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Compound">Compound</h2></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Surname#Compound_surnames" title="Surname">Compound surname</a> and <a href="Double-barrelled_name" title="Double-barrelled name">Double surname</a></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Double name" redirects here; not to be confused with <a href="Dual_naming" title="Dual naming">Double place naming</a>, <a href="Tautonym" title="Tautonym">Tautonym</a>, or <a href="Reduplication" title="Reduplication">Reduplication</a>.</div>

<p>In many <a href="Western_culture" title="Western culture">Western cultures</a>, people often have multiple given names. Most often the first one in sequence is the one that a person goes by, although exceptions are not uncommon, such as in the cases of <a href="John_Edgar_Hoover" class="mw-redirect" title="John Edgar Hoover">John Edgar Hoover</a> (J. Edgar) and <a href="Dame_Mary_Barbara_Hamilton_Cartland" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland">Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland</a> (Barbara).

The given name might also be used in compound form, as in, for example, <a href="John_Paul_(given_name)" title="John Paul (given name)">John Paul</a> or a hyphenated style like <a href="Bengt-Arne_Wallin" title="Bengt-Arne Wallin">Bengt-Arne</a>. A <a href="Middle_name" title="Middle name">middle name</a> might be part of a compound given name or might be, instead, a <a href="Maiden_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Maiden name">maiden name</a>, a <a href="Patronymic" title="Patronymic">patronymic</a>, or a <a href="Baptismal_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptismal name">baptismal name</a>.

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<p>In England, it was unusual for a person to have more than one given name until the seventeenth century when Charles James Stuart (<a href="Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">King Charles I</a>) was baptised with two names. That was a French fashion, which spread to the English aristocracy, following the royal example, then spread to the general population and became common by the end of the eighteenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-Coates_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Coates-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Some double-given names for women were used at the start of the eighteenth century but were used together as a unit: Anna Maria, Mary Anne and Sarah Jane. Those became stereotyped as the typical names of servants and so became unfashionable in the nineteenth century.

</p><p>Double names remain popular in the <a href="Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Double names are also common among <a href="Vietnamese_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Vietnamese names">Vietnamese names</a> to make repeated name in the family. For example, Đặng Vũ Minh Anh and Đặng Vũ Minh Ánh, are two sisters with the given names Minh Anh and Minh Ánh.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Initials">Initials</h3></div>

<p>Sometimes, a given name is used as just an initial, especially in combination with the middle initial (such as with <a href="H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>), and more rarely as an initial while the middle name is not one (such as with <a href="L._Ron_Hubbard" title="L. Ron Hubbard">L. Ron Hubbard</a>).

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_status">Legal status</h2></div>

<p>A child's given name or names are usually chosen by the parents soon after birth. If a name is not assigned at birth, one may be given at a <a href="Naming_ceremony" title="Naming ceremony">naming ceremony</a>, with family and friends in attendance. In most jurisdictions, a child's name at birth is a matter of public record, inscribed on a <a href="Birth_certificate" title="Birth certificate">birth certificate</a>, or its equivalent. In Western cultures, people normally retain the same given name throughout their lives. However, in some cases these names may be changed by following legal processes or by repute. People may also change their names when immigrating from one country to another with different naming conventions.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In certain jurisdictions, a government-appointed registrar of births may refuse to register a name for the reasons that it may cause a child harm, that it is considered offensive, or if it is deemed impractical. In France, the agency can refer the case to a local judge. Some jurisdictions, such as Sweden, restrict the spelling of names.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Denmark, one does not need to register a given name for the child until the child is six months old, and in some cases, one can even wait a little longer than this before the child gets an official name.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins_and_meanings">Origins and meanings</h2></div>

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<p>Parents may choose a name because of its meaning. This may be a personal or familial meaning, such as giving a child the name of an admired person, or it may be an example of <a href="Nominative_determinism" title="Nominative determinism">nominative determinism</a>, in which the parents give the child a name that they believe will be lucky or favourable for the child. Given names most often derive from the following categories:

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<ul><li>Aspirational personal traits (external and internal). For example, the male names:

<ul><li>Clement ("merciful");<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as popularised by <a href="Pope_Clement_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Pope Clement I">Pope Clement I</a> (88–98), saint, and his many papal successors of that name;</li>

<li>Augustus ("consecrated, holy"<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), first popularised by the first Roman Emperor; later (as Augustine) by two saints;</li>

<li>English examples include numerous female names such as <a href="Faith" title="Faith">Faith</a>, <a href="Prudence" title="Prudence">Prudence</a>, <a href="Amanda" title="Amanda">Amanda</a> (Latin: worthy of love); Blanche (white (pure));</li></ul></li>

<li>Occupations, for example <a href="George_(given_name)" title="George (given name)">George</a> means "earth-worker", <i>i.e.</i>, "farmer".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>Circumstances of birth, for example:

<ul><li><a href="Thomas_(name)" title="Thomas (name)">Thomas</a> meaning "twin";</li>

<li><i><a href="Quintus" title="Quintus">Quintus</a></i> (Latin: "fifth"), which was traditionally given to the fifth male child.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li>

<li>Objects, for example <a href="Peter_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter (name)">Peter</a> means "rock" and <a href="Edgar" title="Edgar">Edgar</a> means "rich spear".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>Physical characteristics, for example <a href="Calvin_(given_name)" title="Calvin (given name)">Calvin</a> means "bald".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>Variations on another name, especially to change the sex of the name (<a href="Pauline_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pauline (name)">Pauline</a>, Georgia) or to adapt from another language (for instance, the names <a href="Francis_(given_name)" title="Francis (given name)">Francis</a> or <a href="Francisco" title="Francisco">Francisco</a> that come from the name <a href="Franciscus" title="Franciscus">Franciscus</a> meaning "<a href="Franks" title="Franks">Frank</a> or Frenchman").<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>Surnames, Such names can honour other branches of a family, where the surname would not otherwise be passed down (e.g., the mother's maiden surname). Modern examples include:

<ul><li>Winston,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li><a href="Harrison_(name)" title="Harrison (name)">Harrison</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>Many were adopted from the 17th century in England to show respect to notable ancestry, usually given to nephews or male grandchildren of members of the great families concerned, from which the usage spread to general society. This was regardless of whether the family name concerned was in danger of dying out, for example with Howard, a family with many robust male lines over history. Notable examples include

<ul><li>Howard, from the Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk;</li>

<li>Courtenay, from the surname of the Earls of Devon;</li>

<li>Trevor, from the Welsh chieftain Tudor Trevor, lord of Hereford;<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>Clifford, from the Barons Clifford;</li>

<li>Digby, from the family of Baron Digby/Earl of Bristol;</li>

<li>Shirley (originally a man's forename), from the Shirley family, Earls Ferrer;</li>

<li>Percy, from the Percy Earls and Dukes of Northumberland;</li>

<li>Lindsay, from that noble Scottish family, Earls of Crawford;</li>

<li>Graham, from that noble Scottish family, Dukes of Montrose;</li>

<li>Eliot, from the Eliot family, Earls of St Germans;</li>

<li>Herbert, from the Herbert family, Earls of Pembroke;</li>

<li>Russell, from the Russell family, Earls and Dukes of Bedford;</li>

<li>Stanley, from the Stanley family, Earls of Derby;</li>

<li>Vernon, Earl of Shipbrook</li>

<li>Dillon, the Irish family of Dillon, Viscount Dillon</li></ul></li>

<li>Places, for example <a href="Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="Duchy_of_Lorraine" title="Duchy of Lorraine">Lorraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>Time of birth, for example, day of the week, as in <a href="Kofi_Annan" title="Kofi Annan">Kofi Annan</a>, whose given name means "born on Friday",<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the holiday on which one was born, for example, the name <a href="Natalie_(given_name)" title="Natalie (given name)">Natalie</a> meaning "born on <a href="Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> day" in Latin<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Noel (French "Christmas"), a name given to males born at Christmas); also <a href="April_(given_name)" title="April (given name)">April</a>, <a href="May_(given_name)" title="May (given name)">May</a>, or <a href="June_(given_name)" title="June (given name)">June</a>.</li>

<li>Combination of the above, for example the <a href="Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a> name Sirvart means "love rose".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<p>In many cultures, given names are reused, especially <a href="Namesake" title="Namesake">to commemorate ancestors</a> or those who are particularly admired, resulting in a limited repertoire of names that sometimes vary by <a href="Orthography" title="Orthography">orthography</a>.

</p><p>The most familiar example of this, to Western readers, is the use of <a href="Biblical" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical">Biblical</a> and <a href="Saint" title="Saint">saints'</a> names in most of the Christian countries (with Ethiopia, in which names were often ideals or abstractions—Haile Selassie, "power of the Trinity"; Haile Miriam, "power of Mary"—as the most conspicuous exception). However, the name <a href="Jesus_(name)" title="Jesus (name)">Jesus</a> is considered <a href="Taboo" title="Taboo">taboo</a> or <a href="Sacrilege" title="Sacrilege">sacrilegious</a> in some parts of the <a href="Christian_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian world">Christian world</a>, though this taboo does not extend to the cognate <a href="Joshua" title="Joshua">Joshua</a> or related forms which are common in many languages even among Christians. In some Spanish-speaking countries, the name Jesus is considered a normal given name.

</p><p>Similarly, the name <a href="Mary%2C_the_mother_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary, the mother of Jesus">Mary</a>, now popular among Christians, particularly <a href="Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholics</a>, was considered too holy for secular use until about the 12th century. In countries that particularly venerated Mary, this remained the case much longer; in Poland, until the arrival in the 17th century of French queens named Marie.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Most common given names in English (and many other European languages) can be grouped into broad categories based on their origin:

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<ul><li><b><a href="Hebrew_name" title="Hebrew name">Hebrew names</a></b>, most often from the Bible, are very common in, or are elements of names used in historically Christian countries. <a href="Theophoric_name" title="Theophoric name">Some</a> have elements meaning "God", especially "<a href="Eli_(name)" title="Eli (name)">Eli</a>". Examples: <a href="Michael_(given_name)" title="Michael (given name)">Michael</a>, <a href="Joshua" title="Joshua">Joshua</a>, <a href="Daniel_(biblical_figure)" title="Daniel (biblical figure)">Daniel</a>, <a href="Joseph_(Hebrew_Bible)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph (Hebrew Bible)">Joseph</a>, <a href="David" title="David">David</a>, <a href="Adam_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Adam (name)">Adam</a>, <a href="Samuel" title="Samuel">Samuel</a>, <a href="Elizabeth_(given_name)" title="Elizabeth (given name)">Elizabeth</a>, <a href="Hannah_(given_name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hannah (given name)">Hannah</a> and <a href="Mary_(given_name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary (given name)">Mary</a>. There are also a handful of names in use derived from the <b><a href="Aramaic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Aramaic language">Aramaic</a></b>, particularly the names of prominent figures in the New Testament—such as <a href="Thomas_the_Apostle" title="Thomas the Apostle">Thomas</a>, <a href="Martha" title="Martha">Martha</a> and <a href="Bartholomew" class="mw-redirect" title="Bartholomew">Bartholomew</a>.

<ul><li>All of the <a href="Semitic_people" title="Semitic people">Semitic peoples</a> of history and the present day use at least some names constructed like these in Hebrew (and the ancient Hebrews used names not constructed like these—such as <a href="Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>, probably an Egyptian name related to the names of <a href="Pharaoh" title="Pharaoh">Pharaohs</a> like Thutmose and Ahmose). The Muslim world is the best-known example (with names like Saif-al-din, "sword of the faith", or Abd-Allah, "servant of God"), but even the Carthaginians had similar names: cf. Hannibal, "the grace of god" (in this case not the Abrahamic deity God, but the deity—probably <a href="Melkart" class="mw-redirect" title="Melkart">Melkart</a>—whose title is normally left untranslated, as <a href="Baal" title="Baal">Baal</a>).</li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="Germanic_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic names">Germanic names</a></b> are characteristically warlike; roots with meanings like "glory", "strength", and "will" are common. The "-<a href="Bert_(name)" title="Bert (name)">bert</a>" element common in many such names comes from <i>beraht</i>, which means "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bright" class="extiw external" title="wikt:bright">bright</a>". Examples: <a href="Robert" title="Robert">Robert</a>, <a href="Edward" title="Edward">Edward</a>, <a href="Roger" title="Roger">Roger</a>, <a href="Richard" title="Richard">Richard</a>, Albert, Carl, Alfred, Rosalind, Emma, Emmett, <a href="Eric" title="Eric">Eric</a> and <a href="Matilda_(name)" title="Matilda (name)">Matilda</a>.</li>

<li><b>French</b> forms of <b><a href="Germanic_languages" title="Germanic languages">Germanic</a></b> names. Since the <a href="Norman_conquest_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman conquest of England">Norman conquest of England</a>, many English-given names of <a href="Germanic_languages" title="Germanic languages">Germanic</a> origin are used in their <a href="French_name" title="French name">French forms</a>. Examples: <a href="Charles" title="Charles">Charles</a>, <a href="Henry_(given_name)" title="Henry (given name)">Henry</a>, <a href="William" title="William">William</a>.</li>

<li><b><a href="Slavic_names" title="Slavic names">Slavic names</a></b> may be of peaceful character, the compounds being derived from the word <a href="Root_(linguistics)" title="Root (linguistics)">roots</a> meaning "to protect", "to love", "peace", "to praise [gods]", or "to give". Examples: <a href="Milena_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Milena (name)">Milena</a>, <a href="Vesna_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vesna (name)">Vesna</a>, <a href="Bohumil" title="Bohumil">Bohumil</a>, <a href="Dobromir_(given_name)" title="Dobromir (given name)">Dobromir</a>, <a href="Svetlana" title="Svetlana">Svetlana</a>, <a href="Vlastimil" title="Vlastimil">Vlastimil</a>. Other names have a warlike character and are built of words meaning "fighter", "war", or "anger". Examples: <a href="Casimir" title="Casimir">Casimir</a>, <a href="Vladimir_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir (name)">Vladimir</a>, <a href="Sambor_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Sambor (disambiguation)">Sambor</a>, <a href="Wojciech" title="Wojciech">Wojciech</a> and <a href="Zbigniew" title="Zbigniew">Zbigniew</a>. Many of them derive from the root word "slava" ("glory"): <a href="Boleslaus" class="mw-redirect" title="Boleslaus">Boleslav</a>, <a href="Miroslav_(given_name)" title="Miroslav (given name)">Miroslav</a>, <a href="Vladislav" title="Vladislav">Vladislav</a>, <a href="Radoslav_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Radoslav (disambiguation)">Radoslav</a>, <a href="Slavomir" title="Slavomir">Slavomir</a> and <a href="Stanislav_(given_name)" title="Stanislav (given name)">Stanislav</a>. Those derived from root word "mir" ("world, peace") are also popular: <a href="Casimir" title="Casimir">Casimir</a>, <a href="Slavomir" title="Slavomir">Slavomir</a>, <a href="Radomir_(given_name)" title="Radomir (given name)">Radomir</a>, <a href="Vladimir_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vladimir (name)">Vladimir</a>, <a href="Miroslav_(given_name)" title="Miroslav (given name)">Miroslav</a>, Jaczemir.</li>

<li><b><a href="Celtic_languages" title="Celtic languages">Celtic</a></b> names are sometimes <a href="Anglicisation" title="Anglicisation">anglicised</a> versions of <a href="Celtic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Celtic language">Celtic forms</a>, but the original form may also be used. Examples: <a href="Alan_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alan (name)">Alan</a>, <a href="Brian" title="Brian">Brian</a>, <a href="Brigid" title="Brigid">Brigid</a>, Mórag, Ross, <a href="Logan_(given_name)" title="Logan (given name)">Logan</a>, <a href="Ciar%C3%A1n" title="Ciarán">Ciarán</a>, <a href="Jennifer_(given_name)" title="Jennifer (given name)">Jennifer</a>, and <a href="John_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="John (name)">Seán</a>. These names often have origins in Celtic words, as Celtic versions of the names of internationally known <a href="Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> <a href="Saint" title="Saint">saints</a>, as names of <a href="Celtic_mythology" title="Celtic mythology">Celtic mythological figures</a>, or simply as long-standing names whose ultimate etymology is unclear.</li>

<li><b><a href="Greek_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek names">Greek names</a></b> may be derived from the history and mythology of <a href="Classical_Antiquity" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical Antiquity">Classical Antiquity</a> or be derived from the <a href="New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> and early Christian traditions. Such names are often, but not always, anglicised. Examples: <a href="Helen_(given_name)" title="Helen (given name)">Helen</a>, <a href="Stephen" title="Stephen">Stephen</a>, <a href="Alexander" title="Alexander">Alexander</a>, <a href="Andrew" title="Andrew">Andrew</a>, <a href="Peter_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter (name)">Peter</a>, <a href="Gregory_(given_name)" title="Gregory (given name)">Gregory</a>, <a href="George_(given_name)" title="George (given name)">George</a>, <a href="Christopher_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christopher (name)">Christopher</a>, <a href="Margaret_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Margaret (name)">Margaret</a>, <a href="Nicholas" title="Nicholas">Nicholas</a>, <a href="Jason_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jason (name)">Jason</a>, <a href="Timothy_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Timothy (name)">Timothy</a>, <a href="Chloe" title="Chloe">Chloe</a>, <a href="Zoe_(name)" title="Zoe (name)">Zoë</a>, <a href="Katherine_(given_name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Katherine (given name)">Katherine</a>, <a href="Penelope" title="Penelope">Penelope</a> and <a href="Theodore_(given_name)" title="Theodore (given name)">Theodore</a>.</li>

<li><b><a href="Roman_naming_conventions" title="Roman naming conventions">Latin names</a></b> can also be adopted unchanged, or modified; in particular, the inflected element can be dropped, as often happens in borrowings from Latin to English. Examples: <a href="Laura_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Laura (name)">Laura</a>, <a href="Victoria_(name)" title="Victoria (name)">Victoria</a>, <a href="Mark_(given_name)" title="Mark (given name)">Mark</a> (Latin <i><a href="Marcus_(name)" title="Marcus (name)">Marcus</a></i>), <a href="Justin_(given_name)" title="Justin (given name)">Justin</a> (Latin <i>Justinus</i>), <a href="Paul_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul (name)">Paul</a> (Lat. <i>Paulus</i>), Julius, <a href="Julia_(given_name)" title="Julia (given name)">Julia</a>, Cecilia, <a href="Felix_(name)" title="Felix (name)">Felix</a>, <a href="Vivian_(personal_name)" title="Vivian (personal name)">Vivian</a>, <a href="Pascal_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pascal (name)">Pascal</a> (not a traditional-type Latin name, but the adjective-turned-name <i>paschalis</i>, meaning 'of Easter' (<i>Pascha</i>)).</li>

<li><b>Word names</b> come from English vocabulary words. Feminine names of this sort—in more languages than English, and more cultures than Europe alone—frequently derive from nature, flowers, birds, colours, or <a href="Gemstone" title="Gemstone">gemstones</a>. Examples include <a href="Jasmine" title="Jasmine">Jasmine</a>, <a href="Lavender" class="mw-redirect" title="Lavender">Lavender</a>, <a href="Dawn" title="Dawn">Dawn</a>, <a href="Asteraceae" title="Asteraceae">Daisy</a>, <a href="Rose" title="Rose">Rose</a>, <a href="Iris_(plant)" title="Iris (plant)">Iris</a>, <a href="Petunia" title="Petunia">Petunia</a>, <a href="Rowan" title="Rowan">Rowan</a>, <a href="Jade" title="Jade">Jade</a>, and <a href="Violet_(plant)" class="mw-redirect" title="Violet (plant)">Violet</a>. Male names of this sort are less common—examples like <a href="Hunter_(given_name)" title="Hunter (given name)">Hunter</a> and <a href="Fischer" title="Fischer">Fischer</a>, or names associated with strong animals, such as <a href="Bronco" class="mw-redirect" title="Bronco">Bronco</a> and <a href="Wolf" title="Wolf">Wolf</a>. (This is more common in some other languages, such as Northern Germanic and Turkish).</li>

<li><b>Trait names</b> most conspicuously include the Christian virtues, mentioned above, and normally used as feminine names (such as the <a href="Theological_virtues" title="Theological virtues">three Christian virtues</a>—<a href="Faith_in_Christianity" title="Faith in Christianity">Faith</a>, <a href="Hope_(virtue)" title="Hope (virtue)">Hope</a>, and <a href="Charity_(virtue)" class="mw-redirect" title="Charity (virtue)">Charity</a>).</li>

<li><b><a href="Diminutive" title="Diminutive">Diminutives</a></b> are sometimes used to distinguish between two or more people with the same given name. In English, <a href="Robert" title="Robert">Robert</a> may be changed to "Robbie" or Thomas changed to "Tommy". In German the names <a href="John_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="John (name)">Hänsel</a> and <a href="Margaret_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Margaret (name)">Gretel</a> (as in the famous <a href="Hansel_%26_Gretel" class="mw-redirect" title="Hansel & Gretel">fairy tale</a>) are the diminutive forms of Johann and Margarete. Examples: <a href="Victoria_(name)" title="Victoria (name)">Vicky</a>, <a href="Cindy_(given_name)" title="Cindy (given name)">Cindy</a>, Tommy, <a href="Abigail" title="Abigail">Abby</a>, <a href="Alison_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alison (name)">Allie</a>.</li>

<li><b>Shortened names</b> (see <a href="Nickname" title="Nickname">nickname</a>) are generally nicknames of a longer name, but they are instead given as a person's entire given name. For example, a man may simply be named "Jim", and it is not short for <a href="James_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="James (name)">James</a>. Examples: Beth, Ben, Zach, Tom.</li>

<li><b>Feminine variations</b> exist for many masculine names, often in multiple forms. Examples: <a href="Charlotte_(given_name)" title="Charlotte (given name)">Charlotte</a>, <a href="Stephanie" title="Stephanie">Stephanie</a>, <a href="Victoria_(name)" title="Victoria (name)">Victoria</a>, <a href="Philippa" title="Philippa">Philippa</a>, <a href="Jane_(given_name)" title="Jane (given name)">Jane</a>, <a href="Jacqueline_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacqueline (name)">Jacqueline</a>, <a href="Josephine_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Josephine (name)">Josephine</a>, <a href="Danielle" title="Danielle">Danielle</a>, <a href="Paula_(given_name)" title="Paula (given name)">Paula</a>, <a href="Pauline_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pauline (name)">Pauline</a>, <a href="Patricia" title="Patricia">Patricia</a>, <a href="Francesca" title="Francesca">Francesca</a>.</li></ul>

<p>Frequently, a given name has versions in many languages. For example, the biblical name <i><a href="Susanna_(disciple)" title="Susanna (disciple)">Susanna</a></i> also occurs in its original <a href="Biblical_Hebrew_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical Hebrew language">biblical Hebrew</a> version, <i>Shoshannah</i>, its Spanish and Portuguese version <i>Susana</i>, its French version, <i>Suzanne</i>, its Polish version, <i>Zuzanna</i>, or its Hungarian version, <i>Zsuzsanna</i> .

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<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Chinese_given_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese given names">Chinese given names</a></div>

<p>Despite the uniformity of <a href="Chinese_surname" title="Chinese surname">Chinese surnames</a>, some <a href="Chinese_given_name" title="Chinese given name">Chinese given names</a> are fairly original because <a href="Chinese_character" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese character">Chinese characters</a> can be combined extensively. Unlike European languages, with their Biblical and Greco-Roman heritage, the <a href="Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese language</a> does not have a particular set of words reserved for given names: any combination of Chinese characters can theoretically be used as a given name. Nonetheless, a number of popular characters commonly recur, including "Strong" (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BC%9F" class="extiw external" title="wikt:伟">伟</a>, <i>Wěi</i>), "Learned" (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%96%87" class="extiw external" title="wikt:文">文</a>, <i>Wén</i>), "Peaceful" (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89" class="extiw external" title="wikt:安">安</a>, <i>Ān</i>), and "Beautiful" (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%BE%8E" class="extiw external" title="wikt:美">美</a>, <i>Měi</i>). Despite China's increasing urbanization, several names such as "Pine" (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE" class="extiw external" title="wikt:松">松</a>, <i>Sōng</i>) or "<a href="Plum_tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Plum tree">Plum</a>" (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%A2%85" class="extiw external" title="wikt:梅">梅</a>, <i>Méi</i>) also still reference nature.

</p><p>Most Chinese given names are two characters long and—despite the examples above—the two characters together may mean nothing at all. Instead, they may be selected to include particular sounds, <a href="Chinese_tones" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese tones">tones</a>, or <a href="Radical_(Chinese_characters)" class="mw-redirect" title="Radical (Chinese characters)">radicals</a>; to balance the <a href="Five_elements_(China)" class="mw-redirect" title="Five elements (China)">Chinese elements</a> of a child's <a href="Chinese_astrology" title="Chinese astrology">birth chart</a>; or to honor a <a href="Generation_poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Generation poem">generation poem</a> handed down through the family for centuries. Traditionally, it is considered an <a href="Naming_taboo" title="Naming taboo">affront</a>, not an honor, to have a newborn named after an older relative and so full names are rarely passed down through a family in the manner of American English <i>Seniors,</i> <i>Juniors</i>, <i>III</i>, etc. Similarly, it is considered disadvantageous for the child to bear a name already made famous by someone else through <a href="Romanization_of_Chinese" title="Romanization of Chinese">romanizations</a>, where a common name like <a href="Liu_Xiang_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Liu Xiang (disambiguation)">Liu Xiang</a> may be borne by tens of thousands.

</p><p><a href="Korean_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Korean names">Korean names</a> and <a href="Vietnamese_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Vietnamese names">Vietnamese names</a> are often simply conventions derived from <a href="Classical_Chinese" title="Classical Chinese">Classical Chinese</a> counterparts.

</p><p>Many female <a href="Japanese_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese names">Japanese names</a> end in <i>-ko</i> (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%AD%90" class="extiw external" title="wikt:子">子</a>), usually meaning "child" on its own. However, the character when used in given names can have a feminine (adult) connotation.

</p><p>In many Westernised Asian locations, many Asians also have an unofficial or even registered Western (typically English) given name, in addition to their Asian given name. This is also true for Asian students at colleges in countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia as well as among international businesspeople.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gender">Gender</h2></div>

<p>Most names in English are traditionally masculine (Hugo, James, Harold) or feminine (Daphne, Charlotte, Jane), but there are <a href="Unisex_name" title="Unisex name">unisex names</a> as well, such as <a href="Jordan_(name)" title="Jordan (name)">Jordan</a>, <a href="Jamie" title="Jamie">Jamie</a>, <a href="Jesse_(given_name)" title="Jesse (given name)">Jesse</a>, <a href="Morgan_(given_name)" title="Morgan (given name)">Morgan</a>, Leslie/<a href="Lesley_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Lesley (disambiguation)">Lesley</a>, <a href="Joseph_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph (name)">Joe</a>/<a href="Jo_(given_name)" title="Jo (given name)">Jo</a>, <a href="Jackie_(given_name)" title="Jackie (given name)">Jackie</a>, <a href="Pat_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Pat (disambiguation)">Pat</a>, Dana, Alex, <a href="Chris" title="Chris">Chris</a>/<a href="Kris_(name)" title="Kris (name)">Kris</a>, <a href="Randy" title="Randy">Randy</a>/<a href="Randi" title="Randi">Randi</a>, <a href="Lee_(given_name)" title="Lee (given name)">Lee</a>, etc. Often, use for one gender is predominant. Also, a particular spelling is often more common for either men or women, even if the pronunciation is the same.

</p><p>Many culture groups, past and present, did not or do not gender their names strongly; thus, many or all of their names are unisex. On the other hand, in many languages including most <a href="Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European languages</a> (but not English), gender is inherent in the grammar. Some countries have laws preventing <a href="Unisex_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Unisex names">unisex names</a>, requiring parents to give their children sex-specific names.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Names may have different gender connotations from country to country or language to language.

</p><p>Within <a href="Anthroponymic" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthroponymic">anthroponymic</a> classification, names of human males are called <i>andronyms</i> (from <a href="Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> ἀνήρ / man, and ὄνυμα [ὄνομα] / name),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoom19966_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoom19966-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while names of human females are called <i>gynonyms</i> (from <a href="Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> γυνή / woman, and ὄνυμα [ὄνομα] / name).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarolini200591,_98_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarolini200591,_98-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popularity">Popularity</h2></div>

<p>The popularity (frequency) distribution of given names typically follows a <a href="Zipf%E2%80%93Mandelbrot_law" title="Zipf–Mandelbrot law">power law distribution</a>.

</p><p>Since about 1800 in England and Wales and in the U.S., the popularity distribution of given names has been shifting so that the most popular names are losing popularity. For example, in England and Wales, the most popular female and male names given to babies born in 1800 were Mary and John, with 24% of female babies and 22% of male babies receiving those names, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast, the corresponding statistics for England and Wales in 1994 were Emily and James, with 3% and 4% of names, respectively. Not only have Mary and John gone out of favour in the English-speaking world, but the overall distribution of names has also changed significantly over the last 100<span class="nowrap"> </span>years for females, but not for males. This has led to an increasing amount of diversity for female names.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Choice_of_names">Choice of names</h3></div>

<p>Education, ethnicity, religion, class and political ideology affect parents' choice of names. Politically conservative parents choose common and traditional names, while politically liberal parents may choose the names of literary characters or other relatively obscure cultural figures.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Devout members of religions often choose names from their religious scriptures. For example, Hindu parents may name a daughter <a href="Saanvi" class="mw-redirect" title="Saanvi">Saanvi</a> after the goddess, Jewish parents may name a boy <a href="Isaac" title="Isaac">Isaac</a> after one of the earliest ancestral figures, and Muslim parents may name a boy <a href="Mohammed_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed (name)">Mohammed</a> after <a href="Muhammad" title="Muhammad">the prophet Mohammed</a>.

</p><p>There are many tools parents can use to choose names, including books, websites and applications. An example is the Baby Name Game that uses the <a href="Elo_rating_system" title="Elo rating system">Elo rating system</a> to rank parents preferred names and help them select one.<sup id="cite_ref-Baby_Name_Game_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baby_Name_Game-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Influence_of_popular_culture">Influence of popular culture</h3></div>

<p><a href="Popular_culture" title="Popular culture">Popular culture</a> appears to have an influence on naming trends, at least in the United States and United Kingdom. Newly famous celebrities and public figures may influence the popularity of names. For example, in 2004, the names "Keira" and "Kiera" (anglicisation of Irish name Ciara) respectively became the 51st and 92nd most popular girls' names in the UK, following the rise in popularity of British actress <a href="Keira_Knightley" title="Keira Knightley">Keira Knightley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2001, the use of Colby as a boys' name for babies in the United States jumped from 233rd place to 99th, just after <a href="Colby_Donaldson" title="Colby Donaldson">Colby Donaldson</a> was the runner-up on <i><a href="Survivor%3A_The_Australian_Outback" title="Survivor: The Australian Outback">Survivor: The Australian Outback</a></i>. Also, the female name "Miley" which before was not in the top 1000 was 278th most popular in 2007, following the rise to fame of singer-actress <a href="Miley_Cyrus" title="Miley Cyrus">Miley Cyrus</a> (who was named Destiny at birth).<sup id="cite_ref-ssa_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssa-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>Characters from fiction also seem to influence naming. After the name <a href="Kayla_(name)" title="Kayla (name)">Kayla</a> was used for <a href="Kayla_Brady" title="Kayla Brady">a character</a> on the American <a href="Soap_opera" title="Soap opera">soap opera</a> <i><a href="Days_of_Our_Lives" title="Days of Our Lives">Days of Our Lives</a></i>, the name's popularity increased greatly. The name <a href="Tammy_(given_name)" title="Tammy (given name)">Tammy</a>, and the related <a href="Tamara_(given_name)" title="Tamara (given name)">Tamara</a> became popular after the movie <i><a href="Tammy_and_the_Bachelor" title="Tammy and the Bachelor">Tammy and the Bachelor</a></i> came out in 1957. Some names were established or spread by being used in literature. Notable examples include <a href="Pamela_(name)" title="Pamela (name)">Pamela</a>, invented by Sir <a href="Philip_Sidney" title="Philip Sidney">Philip Sidney</a> for a pivotal character in his epic prose work, <i><a href="The_Countess_of_Pembroke's_Arcadia" title="The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia">The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia</a></i>; <a href="Jessica_(given_name)" title="Jessica (given name)">Jessica</a>, created by William Shakespeare in his play <i><a href="The_Merchant_of_Venice" title="The Merchant of Venice">The Merchant of Venice</a></i>; <a href="Vanessa_(name)" title="Vanessa (name)">Vanessa</a>, created by <a href="Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>; <a href="Fiona" title="Fiona">Fiona</a>, a character from <a href="James_Macpherson" title="James Macpherson">James Macpherson</a>'s spurious cycle of <a href="Ossian" title="Ossian">Ossian</a> poems; <a href="Wendy" title="Wendy">Wendy</a>, an obscure name popularised by <a href="J._M._Barrie" title="J. M. Barrie">J. M. Barrie</a> in his play <i><a href="Peter_Pan%2C_or_The_Boy_Who_Wouldn't_Grow_Up" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up">Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up</a></i>; and <a href="Madison_(name)" title="Madison (name)">Madison</a>, a character from the movie <i><a href="Splash_(film)" title="Splash (film)">Splash</a></i>. <a href="Lara_(name)" title="Lara (name)">Lara</a> and <a href="Larissa_(given_name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Larissa (given name)">Larissa</a> were rare in America before the appearance of <i><a href="Doctor_Zhivago_(1965_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)">Doctor Zhivago</a>,</i> and have become fairly common since.

</p><p>Songs can influence the naming of children. Jude jumped from 814th most popular male name in 1968 to 668th in 1969, following the release of <a href="The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">the Beatles</a>' "<a href="Hey_Jude" title="Hey Jude">Hey Jude</a>". Similarly, <a href="Layla" title="Layla">Layla</a> charted as 969th most popular in 1972 after the <a href="Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a> song. It had not been in the top 1,000 before.<sup id="cite_ref-ssa_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssa-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kayleigh became a particularly popular name in the United Kingdom following the release of a song by the British rock group <a href="Marillion" title="Marillion">Marillion</a>. Government statistics in 2005 revealed that 96% of Kayleighs were born after 1985, the year in which Marillion released "<a href="Kayleigh" title="Kayleigh">Kayleigh</a>".

</p><p>Popular culture figures need not be admirable in order to influence naming trends. For example, Peyton came into the top 1000 as a female given name for babies in the United States for the first time in 1992 (at #583), immediately after it was featured as the name of an evil nanny in the film <i><a href="The_Hand_That_Rocks_the_Cradle_(1992_film)" title="The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992 film)">The Hand That Rocks the Cradle</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-ssa_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssa-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the other hand, historical events can influence child-naming. For example, the given name <a href="Adolf" title="Adolf">Adolf</a> has fallen out of use since the end of <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> in 1945.

</p><p>In contrast with this anecdotal evidence, a comprehensive study of Norwegian first name datasets<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> shows that the main factors that govern first name dynamics are <a href="Endogenous" class="mw-redirect" title="Endogenous">endogenous</a>. Monitoring the popularity of 1,000 names over 130 years, the authors have identified only five cases of <a href="Exogenous" class="mw-redirect" title="Exogenous">exogenous</a> effects, three of them are connected to the names given to the babies of the Norwegian royal family.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century_African-American_names">20th century African-American names</h3></div>

<p>Since the civil rights movement of 1950–1970, <a href="African-American_names" title="African-American names">African-American names</a> given to children have strongly mirrored sociopolitical movements and philosophies in the African-American community. Since the 1970s neologistic (creative, inventive) practices have become increasingly common and the subject of academic study.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><a href="Hypocorism" title="Hypocorism">Hypocorism</a> or pet name</li>

<li><a href="List_of_most_popular_given_names" title="List of most popular given names">List of most popular given names</a> (in many countries and cultures)</li>

<li><a href="Maiden_and_married_names" title="Maiden and married names">Maiden and married names</a></li>

<li><a href="Onomastics" title="Onomastics">Onomastics</a></li>

<li><a href="Personal_name" title="Personal name">Personal name</a></li>

<li><a href="Praenomen" title="Praenomen">Praenomen</a></li>

<li><a href="Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">Pseudonym</a></li>

<li><a href="Saint's_name" title="Saint's name">Saint's name</a>

<ul><li><a href="Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Calendar of saints</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Slave_name" title="Slave name">Slave name</a></li>

<li><a href="Thai_name" title="Thai name">Thai name</a> – somewhat special treatment of given names</li>

<li><a href="Theophoric_name" title="Theophoric name">Theophoric name</a>

<ul><li><a href="Theophory_in_the_Bible" title="Theophory in the Bible">Theophory in the Bible</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Unisex_name" title="Unisex name">Unisex name</a></li>

<li><a href="Pleonasm#Bilingual_tautological_expressions" title="Pleonasm">Bilingual tautological given names</a></li></ul>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">However, the <i>family name – given name</i> order is used only in informal or traditional contexts. The official naming order in <a href="Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a> and <a href="Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a> is <i>given name – family name</i>.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Protesting Swedish naming laws, in 1996, two parents attempted to name their child <a href="Naming_law_in_Sweden#Protest_names" title="Naming law in Sweden">Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116</a>, stating that it was "a pregnant, expressionistic development that we see as an artistic creation".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span>

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<li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFIgor_Katsev" class="citation web cs1">Igor Katsev. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110527140947/http://www.mfnames.com/mnames/r/origin-and-meaning-of-ross.htm">"Origin and Meaning of Ross"</a>. <i>MFnames.com</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mfnames.com/mnames/r/origin-and-meaning-of-ross.htm">the original</a> on 27 May 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 January</span> 2009</span>.</cite></span>

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<div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/given_name" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:given name">given name</a></b></i>, <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Names" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:Appendix:Names">Appendix:Names</a></b></i>, or <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Most_popular_given_names_by_country" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:Appendix:Most popular given names by country">Appendix:Most popular given names by country</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div>

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<div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Given_names" class="extiw external" title="commons:Category:Given names">Given names</a></span>.</div></div>

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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFHerbermann1913" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Christian Names"><a class="external text external" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Christian_Names">"Christian Names" </a></span>. <i><a href="Catholic_Encyclopedia" title="Catholic Encyclopedia">Catholic Encyclopedia</a></i>. New York: Robert Appleton Company.</cite></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.galbithink.org/names/agnames.htm">Given Name Frequency Project</a> — Analysis of long-term trends in given names in England and Wales. Includes downloadable datasets of names for people interested in studying given name trends.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager">NameVoyager</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110130055404/http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager">Archived</a> 30 January 2011 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> — Visualization showing the frequency of the Top 1000 American baby names throughout history.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050330030604/http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html">U.S. Census Bureau: Distribution of Names Files</a> — Large ranked list of male and female given names in addition to last names.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/">Popular Baby Names</a> — The Social Security Administration page for Popular U.S. Baby Names.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120410210007/http://www.muslimnamesworld.com/">Muslim Names</a> — Islamic names with Audio Voice for pronunciation of Arabic names.</li>

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<ul><li><a href="Birth_name" title="Birth name">Birth name</a></li>

<li><a href="Surname" title="Surname">Surname</a>

<ul><li><a href="Patrilineality" title="Patrilineality">patrilineal</a></li>

<li><a href="Matriname" title="Matriname">matrilineal</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_family_name_affixes" title="List of family name affixes">affixes</a>

<ul><li><a href="Nobiliary_particle" title="Nobiliary particle">nobiliary particle</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By sequence</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Middle_name" title="Middle name">Middle name</a></li>

<li><a href="Surname" title="Surname">Surname</a>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By trait</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Diminutive" title="Diminutive">Diminutive</a></li>

<li><a href="Double-barrelled_name" title="Double-barrelled name">Double-barrelled</a></li>

<li><a href="Epithet" title="Epithet">Epithet</a>

<ul><li><a href="Animal_epithet" title="Animal epithet">animal</a></li>

<li><a href="Lists_of_people_by_epithet" title="Lists of people by epithet">common</a></li>

<li><a href="Plant_epithet" title="Plant epithet">plant</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Eponym" title="Eponym">Eponymic</a></li>

<li><a href="Matronym" class="mw-redirect" title="Matronym">Matronymic</a></li>

<li><a href="Metonym" class="mw-redirect" title="Metonym">Metonymic</a></li>

<li><a href="Mononym" title="Mononym">Mononymic</a></li>

<li><a href="Occupational_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupational name">Occupational</a></li>

<li><a href="Patronymic" title="Patronymic">Patronymic</a>

<ul><li><a href="Patronymic_surname" title="Patronymic surname">surname</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Sobriquet" title="Sobriquet">Sobriquet</a></li>

<li><a href="Teknonym" class="mw-redirect" title="Teknonym">Teknonymic</a></li>

<li><a href="Toponym" class="mw-redirect" title="Toponym">Toponymic</a>

<ul><li><a href="Toponymic_surname" title="Toponymic surname">surname</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Patrial_name" title="Patrial name">Patrial</a></li>

<li><a href="Unisex_name" title="Unisex name">Unisex</a></li>

<li><a href="Virtue_name" title="Virtue name">Virtue</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Aptronym" title="Aptronym">Aptronym</a></li>

<li><a href="Birth_name" title="Birth name">Birth name</a></li>

<li><a href="Maiden_and_married_names" title="Maiden and married names">Maiden and married names</a></li>

<li><a href="Necronym" title="Necronym">Necronym</a>

<ul><li><a href="Posthumous_name" title="Posthumous name">Posthumous name</a></li>

<li><a href="Temple_name" title="Temple name">Temple name</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Placeholder_name" title="Placeholder name">Placeholder name</a>

<ul><li><a href="Notname" title="Notname">Notname</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Regnal_name" title="Regnal name">Regnal name</a></li>

<li><a href="Slave_name" title="Slave name">Slave name</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="Nickname" title="Nickname">Nicknames</a>

<li><a href="Hypocorism" title="Hypocorism">hypocorism</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_monarchs_by_nickname" title="List of monarchs by nickname">list of monarchs</a></li></ul></li>

<li><i><a href="Nom_de_guerre" title="Nom de guerre">nom de guerre</a></i></li>

<ul><li><a href="Heteronym_(literature)" title="Heteronym (literature)">heteronym</a></li></ul></li>

<li><i><a href="Shikona" title="Shikona">shikona</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Stage_name" title="Stage name">Stage name</a>

<li><a href="List_of_one-word_stage_names" title="List of one-word stage names">list of mononyms</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Username" class="mw-redirect" title="Username">Username</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Chinese_name" title="Chinese name">Chinese</a>

<li><a href="Courtesy_name" title="Courtesy name">courtesy</a></li>

<li><a href="Generation_name" title="Generation name">generation</a></li>

<li><a href="Chinese_titles" title="Chinese titles">titles</a></li>

<li><a href="Naming_customs_of_Taiwanese_indigenous_peoples" title="Naming customs of Taiwanese indigenous peoples">Formosan</a></li>

<li><a href="Japanese_name" title="Japanese name">Japanese</a></li>

<li><a href="Korean_name" title="Korean name">Korean</a></li>

<li><a href="Okinawan_name" title="Okinawan name">Okinawan</a></li>

<li><a href="Vietnamese_name" title="Vietnamese name">Vietnamese</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Kalmyk_name" title="Kalmyk name">Kalmyk</a></li>

<li><a href="Manchu_name" title="Manchu name">Manchu</a></li>

<li><a href="Mongolian_name" title="Mongolian name">Mongolian</a></li>

<li><a href="Sakha_names" title="Sakha names">Sakha</a></li>

<li><a href="Tibetan_name" title="Tibetan name">Tibetan</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North Africa<br>and Western Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Afghan_name" title="Afghan name">Afghan</a></li>

<li><a href="Arabic_name" title="Arabic name">Arabic</a></li>

<li><a href="Azerbaijani_name" title="Azerbaijani name">Azerbaijani</a></li>

<li>Berber</li>

<li><a href="Coptic_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Coptic name">Coptic</a></li>

<li><a href="Hebrew_name" title="Hebrew name">Hebrew</a></li>

<li><a href="Mandaean_name" title="Mandaean name">Mandaean</a></li>

<li><a href="Pashtun_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Pashtun name">Pashtun</a></li>

<li><a href="Persian_name" title="Persian name">Persian</a></li>

<li><a href="Somali_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Somali name">Somali</a></li>

<li><a href="Tatar_name" title="Tatar name">Tatar</a></li>

<li><a href="Turkish_name" title="Turkish name">Turkish</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oceania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Australian_Aboriginal_kinship" title="Australian Aboriginal kinship">Australian Aboriginal</a></li>

<li><a href="Fijian_name" title="Fijian name">Fijian</a></li>

<li><a href="Hawaiian_name" title="Hawaiian name">Hawaiian</a></li>

<li><a href="M%C4%81ori_naming_customs" title="Māori naming customs">Māori</a></li>

<li><a href="Ni-Vanuatu_name" title="Ni-Vanuatu name">Vanuatuan</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sub-Saharan Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Akan_names" title="Akan names">Ashanti</a></li>

<li><a href="Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo_naming_customs" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo naming customs">Congolese</a></li>

<li><a href="Naming_conventions_in_Eritrea_and_Ethiopia" class="mw-redirect" title="Naming conventions in Eritrea and Ethiopia">Eritrean and Ethiopian</a></li>

<li><a href="Ghanaian_name" title="Ghanaian name">Ghanaian</a></li>

<li><a href="Yoruba_name" title="Yoruba name">Yoruba</a></li>

<li><a href="Zimbabwean_names" title="Zimbabwean names">Zimbabwean</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe,<br>Americas,<br>and Australasia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Baltic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Latvian_name" title="Latvian name">Latvian</a></li>

<li><a href="Lithuanian_name" title="Lithuanian name">Lithuanian</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Celtic_onomastics" title="Celtic onomastics">Celtic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Cornish_surnames" title="Cornish surnames">Cornish</a></li>

<li><a href="Irish_name" title="Irish name">Irish</a></li>

<li><a href="Scottish_Gaelic_name" title="Scottish Gaelic name">Scottish</a></li>

<li><a href="Welsh_surnames" title="Welsh surnames">Welsh</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Germanic_name" title="Germanic name">Germanic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Dutch_name" title="Dutch name">Dutch</a></li>

<li><a href="English_name" title="English name">English</a>

<ul><li><a href="Naming_in_the_United_States" title="Naming in the United States">American</a></li>

<li><a href="African-American_names" title="African-American names">African-American</a></li>

<li><a href="Canadian_name" title="Canadian name">Canadian</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="German_name" title="German name">German</a></li>

<li><a href="Gothic_name" title="Gothic name">Gothic</a></li>

<li><a href="Icelandic_name" title="Icelandic name">Icelandic</a></li>

<li><a href="Scandinavian_family_name_etymology" title="Scandinavian family name etymology">Scandinavian</a>

<ul><li><a href="Swedish_name" title="Swedish name">Swedish</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Romance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Catalan_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalan name">Catalan</a></li>

<li><a href="French_name" title="French name">French</a></li>

<li><a href="Italian_name" title="Italian name">Italian</a></li>

<li>Occitan</li>

<li><a href="Portuguese_name" title="Portuguese name">Portuguese</a></li>

<li><a href="Roman_naming_conventions" title="Roman naming conventions">Roman</a>

<ul><li><i><a href="Praenomen" title="Praenomen">praenomen</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Nomen_(Roman_name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nomen (Roman name)">nomen</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Cognomen" title="Cognomen">cognomen</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Agnomen" title="Agnomen">agnomen</a></i></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Romanian_name" title="Romanian name">Romanian</a></li>

<li><a href="Spanish_naming_customs" title="Spanish naming customs">Spanish</a>

<ul><li><a href="Naming_customs_of_Hispanic_America" title="Naming customs of Hispanic America">Latin America</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Slavic_names" title="Slavic names">Slavic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Bulgarian_name" title="Bulgarian name">Bulgarian</a></li>

<li><a href="Croatian_name" title="Croatian name">Croatian</a></li>

<li><a href="Czech_name" title="Czech name">Czech</a></li>

<li><a href="East_Slavic_name" title="East Slavic name">East Slavic</a>

<ul><li><a href="Belarusian_name" title="Belarusian name">Belarusian</a></li>

<li><a href="East_Slavic_name" title="East Slavic name">Russian</a></li>

<li><a href="Ukrainian_name" title="Ukrainian name">Ukrainian</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Kashubian</li>

<li><a href="Macedonian_onomastics" title="Macedonian onomastics">Macedonian</a></li>

<li><a href="Polish_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish name">Polish</a></li>

<li><a href="Serbian_name" title="Serbian name">Serbian</a></li>

<li><a href="Slovak_name" title="Slovak name">Slovak</a></li>

<li><a href="Slavic_name_suffixes" title="Slavic name suffixes">Suffixes</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Uralic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Estonian_name" title="Estonian name">Estonian</a></li>

<li><a href="Finnish_name" title="Finnish name">Finnish</a></li>

<li><a href="Hungarian_names" title="Hungarian names">Hungarian</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Albanian_name" title="Albanian name">Albanian</a></li>

<li><a href="Armenian_name" title="Armenian name">Armenian</a></li>

<li><a href="Basque_surnames" title="Basque surnames">Basque</a></li>

<li><a href="Georgian_name" title="Georgian name">Georgian</a></li>

<li><a href="Greek_name" title="Greek name">Greek</a>

<ul><li><a href="Ancient_Greek_personal_names" title="Ancient Greek personal names">ancient</a></li>

<li><a href="Greek_Cypriot_name" title="Greek Cypriot name">Cypriot</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">South and Southeast Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Balinese_name" title="Balinese name">Balinese</a></li>

<li><a href="Bengali_name" title="Bengali name">Bengali</a></li>

<li><a href="Bhutanese_name" title="Bhutanese name">Bhutanese</a></li>

<li><a href="Burmese_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Burmese name">Burmese</a></li>

<li><a href="Filipino_name" title="Filipino name">Filipino</a></li>

<li><a href="Indonesian_names" title="Indonesian names">Indonesian</a>

<ul><li><a href="Chinese_Indonesian_surname" title="Chinese Indonesian surname">Chinese</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Javanese_name" title="Javanese name">Javanese</a></li>

<li><a href="Khmer_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Khmer name">Cambodian</a></li>

<li><a href="Malaysian_names" title="Malaysian names">Malaysian</a></li>

<li><a href="Mizo_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Mizo names">Mizo (Lushai)</a></li>

<li><a href="Indian_name" title="Indian name">Indian</a></li>

<li><a href="Pakistani_name" title="Pakistani name">Pakistani</a></li>

<li><a href="Sindhi_names" title="Sindhi names">Sindhi</a></li>

<li><a href="Sinhalese_name" title="Sinhalese name">Sinhalese</a></li>

<li><a href="Naming_conventions_of_ancient_Tamil_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Naming conventions of ancient Tamil country">Tamilian</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Religious_name" title="Religious name">By religion</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Christian_name" title="Christian name">Christian</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_biblical_names" title="List of biblical names">biblical</a></li>

<li><a href="Papal_name" title="Papal name">papal</a></li>

<li><a href="Saint's_name" title="Saint's name">saint</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Buddhist_surname" title="Buddhist surname">Buddhist surname</a></li>

<li><a href="Dharma_name" title="Dharma name">Dharma</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_name" title="Jewish name">Jewish</a>

<ul><li><a href="Hebrew_name" title="Hebrew name">Hebrew</a></li>

<li><a href="Jewish_surname" title="Jewish surname">surname</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Mandaean_name" title="Mandaean name">Mandaean</a></li>

<li><a href="Theophoric_name" title="Theophoric name">Theophoric</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Manners of address (<a href="List_of_titles" title="List of titles">list</a>)<br><a href="Title_of_authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Title of authority">Of authority</a> and <a href="Title_of_honor" title="Title of honor">of honour</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Style_(form_of_address)" title="Style (form of address)">Styles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Honorific" title="Honorific">Honorific</a>

<ul><li><a href="Diplomatic_rank" title="Diplomatic rank">diplomatic</a></li>

<li><a href="Royal_and_noble_styles" title="Royal and noble styles">imperial, royal, and noble</a></li>

<li><a href="Judiciary_styles" class="mw-redirect" title="Judiciary styles">judiciary</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_religious_titles_and_styles" title="List of religious titles and styles">religious</a>

<ul><li><a href="Ecclesiastical_titles_and_styles" title="Ecclesiastical titles and styles">ecclesiastical</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Pre-nominal_letters" title="Pre-nominal letters">Pre-nominal letters</a></li>

<li><a href="Suffix_(name)" title="Suffix (name)">Suffix</a>

<ul><li><i><a href="Emeritus" title="Emeritus">emeritus</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Post-nominal_letters" title="Post-nominal letters">Post-nominal letters</a>

<ul><li><a href="Academic_degree" title="Academic degree">academic</a></li>

<li><a href="Order_(distinction)" title="Order (distinction)">orders</a>, <a href="Award" title="Award">decorations</a>, and <a href="Medal" title="Medal">medals</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Title" title="Title">Titles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Academic_degree" title="Academic degree">Academic</a></li>

<li><a href="Imperial%2C_royal_and_noble_ranks" title="Imperial, royal and noble ranks">Imperial, royal and noble</a>

<ul><li><a href="Chivalry" title="Chivalry">chivalric</a></li>

<li><a href="Courtesy_title" title="Courtesy title">courtesy</a></li>

<li><a href="False_titles_of_nobility" title="False titles of nobility">false</a></li>

<li><a href="Hereditary_title" title="Hereditary title">hereditary</a></li>

<li><a href="Subsidiary_title" title="Subsidiary title">subsidiary</a></li>

<li><a href="Substantive_title" title="Substantive title">substantive</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Military_rank" title="Military rank">Military</a></li>

<li>professional</li>

<li><a href="Academic_ranks" class="mw-redirect" title="Academic ranks">Academic</a>

<ul><li><a href="Professional_degree" title="Professional degree">educational</a></li>

<li><a href="Honorary_title_(academic)" title="Honorary title (academic)">honorary</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Corporate_title" title="Corporate title">Corporate</a></li>

<li><a href="Diplomatic_rank" title="Diplomatic rank">Diplomatic</a></li>

<li><a href="Judicial_titles" class="mw-redirect" title="Judicial titles">Judicial</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_religious_titles_and_styles" title="List of religious titles and styles">Religious</a>

<ul><li><a href="Ecclesiastical_titles_and_styles" title="Ecclesiastical titles and styles">ecclesiastical</a></li>

<li><a href="Papal_titles" title="Papal titles">papal</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related traditions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Baptism" title="Baptism">Baptism</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Calendar of saints</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Acronym" title="Acronym">Acronym</a></li>

<li><a href="Anonymity" title="Anonymity">Anonymity</a></li>

<li><a href="Anthropomorphism" title="Anthropomorphism">Anthropomorphism</a>

<ul><li><a href="Personification" title="Personification">personification</a>

<ul><li><a href="National_personification" title="National personification">national</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Deadnaming" title="Deadnaming">Deadnaming</a></li>

<li><a href="Endonym_and_exonym" title="Endonym and exonym">Endonym and exonym</a></li>

<li><a href="Family" title="Family">Family</a></li>

<li><a href="Galton%E2%80%93Watson_process" title="Galton–Watson process">Galton–Watson process</a></li>

<li><a href="Legal_name" title="Legal name">Legal name</a>

<ul><li><a href="Name_change" title="Name change">name change</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Namesake" title="Namesake">Namesake</a></li>

<li><a href="Naming_taboo" title="Naming taboo">Naming taboo</a></li>

<li><a href="Nomenclature" title="Nomenclature">Nomenclature</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Nomen_nescio" title="Nomen nescio">nomen nescio</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Misnomer" title="Misnomer">Misnomer</a></li>

<li><a href="Onomastics" title="Onomastics">Onomastics</a></li>

<li><a href="Personal_identity" title="Personal identity">Personal identity</a>

<ul><li><a href="Identifier" title="Identifier">identifier</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Proper_noun" title="Proper noun">Proper noun</a></li>

<li><a href="Signature" title="Signature">Signature</a>

<ul><li><a href="Monogram" title="Monogram">monogram</a>

<ul><li><a href="Royal_cypher" title="Royal cypher">royal cypher</a></li></ul></li>

<li><i><a href="Khelrtva" title="Khelrtva">khelrtva</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Signum_manus" title="Signum manus">signum manus</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Tughra" title="Tughra">tughra</a></i></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Surnames_by_country" title="Surnames by country">Surnames by country</a></li></ul>

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