Personal name
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A personal name, full name or prosoponym is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together as a phrase, they all relate to that one individual. In many cultures
Abraham Lincoln's name is spelled as "Lincoln Ábrahám" in this magazine from Hungary, the only country in Europe that officially uses the Eastern order – even foreign names used to be Hungarianized up until the 20th century.
Middle name
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A middle name is a component of a personal name that in Western naming order is written between a person's forename and surname. Together, the fore- and middle names form a person's given names. Usage
Personal name
…order, the surname comes first, followed by the given name and patronymic, such as "Raskolnikov Rodion Romanovich". In many families, single or multiple middle names are simply alternative names, names honoring an ancestor or relative, or, for married women, sometimes their maiden names. In some traditions, however…
First/forename, middle name, and last/family/surname using the example of Edgar Allan Poe. This Western naming order is typical for English-speaking cultures (and some others).