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legal names

legal names is the plural of legal name.

Meaning of legal name

Noun

legal name (plural legal names)

  1. The name of a natural person recognized on official records, especially as recorded on a birth certificate or as changed by a legal process.
    • He signs his name "Johnny Reb Smith", but his legal name is "Jean-Marie Smith".
  2. The name of an organization as indicated in its founding documents, or as subsequently changed by a legal process.
    • The legal name of "Jack's Mattresses" is "JM Enterprises {2006} (Illinois) Inc.".

Questions about legal names

What is legal names the plural of?
Legal names is the plural of legal name.

Words near legal names in the dictionary

  1. legal holiday
  2. legal holidays
  3. legal instrument
  4. legal interest
  5. legal name
  6. legal names
  7. legal notice
  8. legal notices
  9. legal pad
  10. legal pads
  11. legal person

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legal names (page history and authors); legal name (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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