Personal Name

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
PN
Pronunciation
/ˈpərsɪnəl neɪm/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. This example specifies that the phone number, personal name, and address must be redacted.
  2. A personal name has surprisingly variable structure ( in some cultures you can cause confusion or offense by omitting honorifics or assuming an order of parts of names ).
  3. It is the name of a place in the Old Testament, and seems to have been used as a personal name first in New England.
  4. It would be esteemed an act of rudeness to address an Indian by his personal name, or to inquire his name directly from himself.
  5. Quintus is a Latin praenomen, or personal name, which was common throughout all periods of Roman history.

Other meanings of PN