personalnaming
Personal naming is the practice of assigning a personal name to a person, used to identify individuals within a social, legal, and cultural context. Names typically include a given name and a family name, but structures vary widely across cultures. Additional elements may include middle names, patronymics or matronymics, suffixes, and honorifics, all of which can carry social status, lineage, or religious meaning.
Naming systems reflect linguistic, religious, and historical factors. In many Western traditions, a given name is
Naming is often accompanied by rites, such as birth announcements or naming ceremonies, and by formal registration
Contemporary trends include the increasing use of gender-neutral or hyphenated names, cross-cultural naming practices, and the