Also, some people actually go by their first middle name, so First Name isn't necessarily the given name. So they might have Paul as their Firstname, but David as one of their middle names, used as their given name. Name at birth implies Maiden Name or even name before you changed it at some point. DavidM that'd be the most common reason to change your name but people change names for reasons other than women who get married so "Maiden name" doesn't cover all of it.
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Accept all cookies Customize settings. How would you recognize or recall a person belonging to a large family that has Wilson as the family name? You just cannot speak out Wilson loudly as that is a name common to all members of the family, and all of them would look in the direction of the person calling out Wilson. This is where the first name or the name given to a person at the time of the birth or at the time of registration of names comes handy, as this name is the differentiating factor between all Wilsons in the family.
Given name is the name your parents give you when you are born into this world. In fact, most parents are ready with the given name even before the child is born. This given name varies with gender. For example, Jack is a given name suitable for a boy.
Angela is a name suitable for a girl. These factors are also considered when naming a baby. Also, almost all the given names carry a meaning. Similarly there are various traditions that are followed world wide related to naming ceremony of a child. Family name, this term itself is sufficient to describe it, as it is the name that we share with our family members.
For example, John is the son of Mr. Peter Smith. As John, is the son of Mr. Smith, he shares his family name with his father and therefore his full name would be John Smith.
In the full name of John Smith, John denotes the first name and Smith denotes the family name. In the early years of middle ages, people were generally living in small villages and thus first names were sufficient to be used in context to a person. However, the times changed and societies started growing bigger in sizes. It became little difficult to use only first names as many people had same names. Thus, the need of surnames or family names originated and people started using these name.
The origin of surnames varies from one place to another. However, most of the surnames originated representing the profession of the person, for example- Taylor, Shepherd, Fisher, and Baker. Family names were also based on various other attributes or characteristics like - places, personal characteristics, etc. The family name can be either patronymic or metronymic. Patronymic means that the last name of a person would be same as the last name of father or we can also say that a child and father will share the same surname.
However, in metronymic the child is given the same surname as the mother of the child is having prior to the marriage maiden's name.
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