Other forms: named, names, naming
A name is what somebody or something is called. My name is, the name of the street, put your name on the list.
The vocabulary around it is precise: first name and surname in Britain, given name and family name in international forms, and middle name for the one in between. Christian name is older and assumes a religion. As a verb, to name is to give a name or to say one: name the baby, name three capital cities. Note in the name of, meaning by the authority of, and make a name for yourself, meaning to become known.
1nounnameWhat somebody or something is called.~90%
“I have forgotten the name of the road.”
2verbgiveTo give somebody or something a name.~6%
“They named her after her grandmother.”
3verbverbTo say what somebody or something is called.~2%
“Name three rivers in Europe.”
4nounreputationA reputation.~2%
“The firm has a good name locally.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 17 sentences found in the wild and placed 17 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
name is what something is called.
Old English nama comes from a Proto-Indo-European root that gives Latin nomen, Greek onoma and Sanskrit naman — one of the most stable words in the entire family. Nobody has ever needed to replace the word for a name.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁nómn̥
Middle English
name
English, today
name
Built from
From Middle English name. From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic namō, from Proto-Germanic namô (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European h₁nómn̥ (“name”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA