A given name is the part of a personal name that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group who have a common surname. The term given name refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A Christian name is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom.
The sarcophagus at Riddarholm Church in Sweden of Queen Desideria, an official name given to Désirée Clary not at birth but when she was elected Crown Princess of Sweden in 1810.
A personal name, full name or prosoponym is the set of names by which an individual person is known, and that can be recited as a word-group, with the understanding that, taken together, they all relate to that one individual. In many cultures, the term is synonymous with the birth name or legal name of the individual. In linguistic classification, personal names are studied within a specific onomastic discipline, called anthroponymy.
Abraham Lincoln's name spelled in the Eastern name order following contemporary practice as "Lincoln Ábrahám" on the front page of the Hungarian magazine Hazánk s a Külföld (Our home and abroad), 1865.
