forename
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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
Well, to this ageing fan of post-punk and non-landfill indie music, his forename conjures this earworm.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 4, 2018
Born in Harlem, New York, the star received his unusual forename from his father, Dudley MacDonald Gooding.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2017
There have been times when I feel like their pronunciation of my forename should win out over mine.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2016
After Solomon’s time, the titular name Pharaoh never occurs alone, but only as a forename, as Pharaoh Necho, Pharaoh Hophra, Pharaoh Shishak.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Mexican officials arrested the supposed mastermind of the assassination, named only by his forenames Jorge Amando, on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
Wouldn’t we get to laugh at the prince’s ridiculous forenames?
From Slate ● May 19, 2018
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
