call the name of

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You don't call out your name; you call the name of your friend.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 20, 2013

They didn't call the name of Ms. Zhou, who went back inside to sit with other Chinese workers at Choei Suisan, making origami baskets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2011

I can't call the name of the town, just now.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration

Then they proceed to call the name of each one who is present at this exercise.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Winona's heart followed his feet         far away to the land of the morning, And she hears in her slumber         his sweet, kindly voice call the name of thy daughter.

From Legends of the Northwest by Gordon, Hanford Lennox