A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons, notably in China and within the Chinese cultural sphere...

anything associated with the dead. A taboo against naming the dead is a kind of word taboo whereby the name of a recently deceased person, and any other words...

A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense...

Word taboo, also called taboo language, language taboo or linguistic taboo is a kind of taboo that involves restricting the use of words or other parts...

Jaime Luis Gomez (born July 14, 1975), better known by the stage names Taboo, or Taboo Nawasha is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, DJ, and...

A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required...

professional "art name" (hào; 號; 号) among their social peers. From at least the time of the Shang dynasty, the Chinese observed a number of naming taboos regulating...

exception). However, the name Jesus is considered taboo or sacrilegious in some parts of the Christian world, though this taboo does not extend to the cognate...

their Chinese and Korean language names to the Western naming order. Western publications also preserve this Eastern naming order for Chinese, Korean and...

during the Early Middle Ages, the names themselves exerted a profound influence on the development of European naming practices, and many continue to survive...