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forename

[fawr-naym, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌneɪm, ˈfoʊr- /
NOUN
baptismal name
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NOUN
given name
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Bellingham railway station in south-east London will retain its temporary forename - Jude - until Monday, Thameslink has confirmed.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

The promoters preferred the heavyweight's middle name, Moses, to his given forename of Enriko.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024

Well, to this ageing fan of post-punk and non-landfill indie music, his forename conjures this earworm.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 4, 2018

There have been times when I feel like their pronunciation of my forename should win out over mine.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2016

I have a strange name, too, that is, forename.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various

It's even-steven on this score - the only difference being the spelling of their forenames.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2013

I hope they only learn each other's forenames when the vicar reads them out during the wedding ceremony.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2013

Yet this experience did not strengthen the MPs' questioning, but seemed to make them even tamer, as Mr Diamond addressed them by their forenames and dead-batted the most polished questions.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2012

In South Africa, the transgender community has won some victories - the Department of Home Affairs agreed this October to change the gender and forenames of a transgender woman.

From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2011

The father carried the Russian forenames Michael Gregory.

From Time Magazine Archive


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