How to Use given name in a Sentence

given name

noun

• The team gave names to the pools the frogs called home.
  — Joe Dworetzky, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• No one has mourned enough of them, given name to enough of them.
  — Chris Searles, National Geographic, 23 Aug. 2019
• The screen lit up with her name—not her given name, but one of my pet names for her.
  — Emily Bernard, The New Yorker, 25 June 2020
• The show is part of the LSD Tour, using the first letter of each performer's given name.
  — Timothy Finn, kansascity, 23 Mar. 2018
• At the center of it all was Nora, whose given name was Leonor.
  — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Sep. 2020
• Things would be discussed, things that had just been done would be given names.
  — Lo Carmen, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
• Natasha was born in 1970 and named for the Russian version of Natalia, Wood's given name.
  — Maria Carter, Country Living, 11 May 2017
• Learned from Wikipedia that Oprah’s given name was Orpah.
  — Skyler Higley, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2021
• The rapper, whose given name was Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2021
• And while he’s not mentioned by given name in the film, here’s the story of the real life serial killer.
  — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 4 July 2024
• Clay-Flores said the children were given name tags, cloth linens and pillows for their cots, as well as new jeans and gym shoes.
  — Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Mar. 2021
• We also weren’t given names for any of the characters, which might make this write-up a bit awkward.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 12 June 2018
• Although this is the first gallery show for the D.C. artist, whose given name is Tenbeete Solomon, her style may look familiar.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• The full name of Jack Ma, whose given name in Chinese is Yun, has only two characters.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 3 May 2022
• Many geese were given names with goose puns and/or after celebrities.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2024
• This season, the turtles in long-term care were given names based on Greek mythology.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
• The caterpillars are usually plucked out of trees in the days before the race and given names, like racehorses.
  — Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• The 68-year-old actor, whose given name is Ron Jeremy Hyatt, pleaded not guilty.
  — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2021
• The cows are often given names and encouraged to roam and graze in a stress-free environment, with only a few kept in each pen.
  — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• Hagood — given name: Jake — was all too familiar with the feeling.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2021
• The only other storm that came close was during the record-breaking 1933 season, before storms were given names.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 1 July 2024
• Resistance to rules and conventions is not new for Jay, whose given name is Samaria Johnson.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
• Goo, often known by her given name Hara, worked hard to break into the K-pop industry after a rough childhood.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2019
• Aware of the danger of their journey, many migrants make strenuous efforts to, in the event of their death, ensure that their bodies will be given names.
  — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• The hurricane came at a time before tropical storms were given names.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2020
• And yes, mama revealed that his character’s given name was Philliam.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• One of the elder Ohta brothers opened the tofu shop in partnership with a Mr. Nagaro in 1911, whose given name and place of origin are unknown.
  — Heather Arndt Anderson, Slate Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
• Jack, whose given name is Leonard, is the only family member who was born in America.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• People like my parents hoped to shield me by assigning me an Anglicized given name at birth.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• Scientists had yet to give names to either one as of late Saturday afternoon.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2019