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Past tense of name

regular verb

The past tense of name is named. The past participle is also named.

Forms of name

Base form (V1)name /neɪm/
Past tense (V2)named /neɪmd/
Past participle (V3)named /neɪmd/
Present participlenaming /ˈneɪmɪŋ/
Third person singularnames /neɪmz/

Named in a sentence

  • One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
  • A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  • Stephen King's first novel is about a girl named Carrie dealing with supernatural powers.From the entry supernatural
  • The captain named it Pearl Rock after the rising sun illuminated the surface of the island.From the entry rock
  • The notes B₃, B₄, and C♭₅ all belong to the same pitch class, named 11 or e.From the entry pitch class

Meaning of name

  1. noun Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
  2. noun A reputation.
  3. noun An abusive or insulting epithet.

Full definition of name

Questions about the past tense of name

What is the past tense of name?
The past tense of name is named.
What is the past participle of name?
The past participle of name is named.
Is name a regular or irregular verb?
Name is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: name (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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