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full name
Sign in to saveAlso known as first and last name, personal name, orthonym, person's name, name, prosoponym
set of names by which an individual is known
Wikidata facts
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- FML names.png
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- topic has template
- Template:Personal names
- dummy value
- John Doe
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C25191
- different from
- name
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P13411
- José Joaquín Pérez
- characteristic of
- person
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Anthroponymy
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Encyclopedic overview
First/given, middle and last/family/surname with Edgar Allan Poe as example. This shows a structure typical for the Anglosphere, among others. Other cultures use other structures for full names.
A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek prósōpon – person, and onoma – name) is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together as a phrase, they all relate to that one individual. In many cultures, the term is synonymous with the birth name or legal name of the individual. In linguistic classification, personal names are studied within a specific onomastic discipline, called anthroponymy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “full name” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.