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...

addressed. Chinese name Endonym and exonym - native name and non-native names Human names Legal name List of adjectival forms of place names Name calling – a...

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

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...

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 legal entity that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts...

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...

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

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...