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personal name

noun as in baptismal name

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And we have no evidence that the personal name of an individual ever became a hereditary totem name of an exogamous clan or kin.

Thus a male of "clan" Pelican has the personal name "Pouch of a Pelican."

“Montaigne the Essayist”—that has become, as it were, a personal name in literary history.

Agiʻlĭ—“He is rising,” possibly a contraction of an old personal name, Agin′-agiʻlĭ, “Rising-fawn.”

Gûñskăli′skĭ—a masculine personal name of uncertain etymology.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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