Personal name

A personal name is the label which identifies an individual person. It is a proper name; and it is usually made up of a given name plus a surname.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child specifies that a child has the right from birth to a name.^[1]

Related pages

References

↑ Text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989 entry into force 2 September 1990, in accordance with article 49, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Personal names and anthroponymy (or the study of the proper names of human beings)

Personal identity

Given name
Surname
- Patrilineal/Matrilineal
- Affixes
  - Nobiliary particle

By sequence

By trait

Diminutive
Epithet
- Common epithets
Eponymic
Metonymic
Mononymic
Double-barrelled
Matronymic
Occupational name
Patronymic
- Surname
Sobriquet
Teknonymic
Toponymic
- Surname
Patrial name
Unisex

By life situation

Code name
Necronym
- Posthumous name
- Temple name
Regnal name
Aptronym
Maiden and married names
Placeholder name
- Notname
Slave name

Pseudonyms (list)

Art name
Bugō
Nicknames
- list
- Hypocorism
Nom de guerre
Pen name
- Heteronym
Ring name
Shikona
Stage name
- List
- Mononyms
Username

By culture
Surnames by country

East Asian	Ainu Amami Chinese Courtesy Art Generation Japanese Korean Manchu Mongolian Okinawan Taiwanese aboriginal Tibetan Vietnamese
Muslim world and Western Asia	Afghan Arabic Azerbaijani Bengali Mandaean Pakistani Pashtun Persian Sindhi Somali Tatar Turkish
Oceania	Australian Aboriginal Fijian Hawaiian Māori
Sub-Saharan Africa	Ashanti Democratic Republic of the Congo Ethiopian and Eritrean Ewe Ghanaian Igbo Yoruba Zimbabwean
Europe, North America and Australasia	Albanian Armenian Ashkenazi Jewish Basque Celtic Cornish Irish Manx Scottish Welsh Finnish French Georgian Germanic Dutch English American African-American Canadian Hongkongese German Gothic Icelandic Scandinavian Swedish Greek Ancient Greek Cypriot Hungarian Italian Kalmyk Latvian Lithuanian Portuguese Roman Praenomen Nomen Cognomen Agnomen Romanian Slavic Bulgarian Croatian Czech Eastern Slavic Belarusian Russian Ukrainian Macedonian Polish Serbian Slovak Suffixes Spanish Hispanic America Sakha
Indosphere (South Asia and Southeast Asia)	Balinese Burmese Filipino Indonesian Chinese Javanese Cambodian Malaysian Indian Ancient Tamil country Lao Sinhalese Thai

By religion

Christian name
- Biblical name
- Papal name
- Saint's name
Buddhist surname
Dharma name
Jewish name
- Hebrew
Mandaean name
Theophoric name

Manners of address
List
of authority/of honour

Styles	Honorific Diplomatic Imperial, royal, and noble Judiciary Religious Ecclesiastical Pre-nominal letters Suffix Emeritus Post-nominal letters Academic Orders, decorations, and medals
Titles	Academic Imperial, royal and noble Chivalric Courtesy False Hereditary Subsidiary Substantive Military Professional Academic Educational Honorary Business Diplomatic Judicial Religious Ecclesiastical Papal