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first name

nounA2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A first name is the name your parents chose for you. Use my first name.

It comes last in a great many countries, which makes the term itself confusing. Being asked to use a first name is a small formal moment in some cultures and nothing at all in others.

Definitions of first name

  1. 1nounfirst nameThe name your parents chose for you.A2

    “He went by his middle name and his first name embarrassed him.”

first name is a name.

Where it comes from

First plus name, from the English order of putting the given name before the family one.

  1. Middle English

    firste name

  2. English, today

    first name

From Middle English firste name, first nam, equivalent to first + name.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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