FIRST NAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does first name mean? 

• FIRST NAME (noun)
  The noun FIRST NAME has 1 sense:

1. the name that precedes the surname

  Familiarity information: FIRST NAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRST NAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The name that precedes the surname

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

first name; forename; given name

Hypernyms ("first name" is a kind of...):

name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "first name"):

baptismal name; Christian name (the first name given to Christians at birth or christening)

praenomen (the first name of a citizen of ancient Rome)

 Context examples 

A similar reward paid to any one giving information about a Greek lady whose first name is Sophy.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My first name is Theodore, but I don't like it, for the fellows called me Dora, so I made them say Laurie instead.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

No one knew his first name, and in general he was known in the country as Beauty Smith.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The first letters of the person's first name, middle name, and last name.

(Person Initials, NCI Thesaurus)

First name?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Just as Tom and Myrtle—after the first drink Mrs. Wilson and I called each other by our first names—reappeared, company commenced to arrive at the apartment door.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I knew the other clerks and young bond-salesmen by their first names and lunched with them in dark crowded restaurants on little pig sausages and mashed potatoes and coffee.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)