What does names mean?
Definitions for names
names
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word names.
Princeton's WordNet
name calling, namesnoun
verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument
"sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me"
Wikipedia
names
A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A personal name identifies, not necessarily uniquely, a specific individual human. The name of a specific entity is sometimes called a proper name (although that term has a philosophical meaning as well) and is, when consisting of only one word, a proper noun. Other nouns are sometimes called "common names" or (obsolete) "general names". A name can be given to a person, place, or thing; for example, parents can give their child a name or a scientist can give an element a name.
ChatGPT
names
Names refer to words or phrases that are used to identify or label individuals, objects, places, or concepts. They play a crucial role in communication and are typically unique to each entity they represent. Names can be given to people at birth, chosen for businesses, assigned to products, or used for geographical locations, among other purposes.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Names
Personal names, given or surname, as cultural characteristics, as ethnological or religious patterns, as indications of the geographic distribution of families and inbreeding, etc. Analysis of isonymy, the quality of having the same or similar names, is useful in the study of population genetics. NAMES is used also for the history of names or name changes of corporate bodies, such as medical societies, universities, hospitals, government agencies, etc.
Editors Contribution
names
Plural form and verb form of the word name.
Their names were so beautiful and we were so grateful to be chose them.
Submitted by MaryC on April 8, 2020
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
NAMES
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Names is ranked #78040 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Names surname appeared 245 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Names.
92.2% or 226 total occurrences were White.
4.9% or 12 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'names' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1418
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'names' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1093
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Anagrams for names »
manes
manse
means
mensa
Mensa
amens
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of names in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of names in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of names in a Sentence
One key sign of it being fake is that most of the names are misspelled in English - we would never spell most that way.
It sounded as legitimate as could be, they knew where I was. He told me where to go -- to the Rite Aid, up two streets turn left to the Rite Aid. The names of the streets, it was really just incredible.
You're going to come across a lot of shitty bands and a lot of shitty people and if any of those people call you names because of what you look like or because they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherfucker, stick up your middle finger, and scream Fuck you!
There is no reason we should have been able to buy Facebook down at $73 or Apple down at $92. People had margin calls and were getting hit out at whatever prices they could get, we were buying a lot of blue chip names, down 5 to 10 percent.
Precisely because these (assets) are hard to price, they won't necessarily show the full extent of the market decline, that can make a fund with lots of illiquid security look better than a fund with big, liquid names where the price declines are very transparent.
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- nombresSpanish
- des nomsFrench
- nomiItalian
- nominaLatin
- nomesPortuguese
- isimlerTurkish
- tênVietnamese
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