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personal names

personal names is the plural of personal name.

Meaning of personal name

Noun

personal name (plural personal names)

  1. A proper name identifying an individual person, especially the full name.
    • An example of this is the word Os—'a god', which was often used as an initial element in OE personal names, but is hardly ever found in independent use[…]1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii
    Synonyms:
    full name

Questions about personal names

What is personal names the plural of?
Personal names is the plural of personal name.

Words near personal names in the dictionary

  1. personal messages
  2. personal messaging
  3. personal mobility device
  4. personal mobility devices
  5. personal name
  6. personal names
  7. personal online desktop
  8. personal online desktops
  9. personal ordinariate
  10. personal ordinariates
  11. personal organizer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: personal names (page history and authors); personal 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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