How Important Is Your Name

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How important is your name to identity: A person’s name is another big factor that makes up an individual’s identity; it is a label for a noun, which is normally used to distinguish one person from another. Parents or guardians who give their children a name often go through many different names in order to search for the right name that they think that suits their child the best. An individual’s name although can be changed by the law, goes on everything that they own and most importantly their identification and credentials such as driver’s license or passport. People also not only have names, but nicknames, last names and middle names that also further distinguish an individual as to who they are. Although some names are consulted by religious people or even astrologers in order to find the name of the child that it will have to live with for the rest of its life (in some circumstances these names will be changed). Your first name gives you identity and character, your second name gives you a passed on name from another family member in remembrance of them and your last name gives you deeper identification in the type of background and family you come from. For example a name doesn’t have to be “charlotte” or “Robert” it can also be the name someone else gives you not including your family, such as the public calling prince Charles, prince Harry or Prince William “The Royal Family”, name can also give you power and status or it can cause you go be left down in the dumps. A name also categorizes an individual/s and groups them into specific things such as Facebook which will list people from A-Z in order to make it easier for someone to find them. Also the order of a role in a school for a particular grade categorizes their last names in order to make it easier for everyone to evacuate when there is possible danger. Although there are many people with the
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