A legal name is the name that identifies a person for legal, administrative and other official purposes. A person's legal birth name generally is the name...

Name change is the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their current name. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between...

is found in the "legal name fraud" movement, which believes that birth certificates give the state legal ownership of a personal name and that refusing...

term is synonymous with the birth name or legal name of the individual. In linguistic classification, personal names are studied within a specific onomastic...

business names does not create additional separate legal entities. The distinction between a registered legal name and a fictitious business name, or trade...

In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' (less ambiguously, any legal entity) that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law...

registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name. The assumption in the...

of their names legally to this order. The order given name - father's given name - grandfather's given name (often referred to as triple name) is the official...

original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individual's own. Many pseudonym holders use them...

birth name or be inspired by nicknames or maiden names. Some performers choose to adopt their stage name as a legal name. Some people take a stage name because...