Definition of "given name" []

• A name given to a person at birth or at baptism, as distinguished from a surname. (noun)

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• "The 1999 New York Times Manual of Style and Usage reports, “Church authorities no longer place Cardinal between given name and surname.”"
• "Everyone in the family calls me E—short for Emanuel, a name stripped from me by my sixth-grade English teacher, who told me my given name was too long."
• "He started calling me “Sañuul,” which sounds similar to my given name and is Nalori for “curse-lifter.”"