نام

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thumb|Names of the 2002 Bali bombings victims in [[Indonesia]] A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. A name 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

AI overview

A name is a word or term used to identify something—whether a person, place, or thing—either uniquely or within a particular context. Names matter because they allow us to refer to and distinguish specific entities, making communication and organization of the world around us possible.

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Research

119,987 papers

That's not my name.Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare · 2021Lebensohn-Chialvo FDOI: 10.1037/fsh0000588
The name.Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE · 2005Grubb BPDOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00165.x
Name and identity.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 1980Seeman MVDOI: 10.1177/070674378002500206
Own-age bias in face-name associations: Evidence from memory and visual attention in younger and older adults.ReviewCognition · 2020Strickland-Hughes CM, Dillon KE, West RL et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104253
Name avoidance in social anxiety: Understanding alexinomia.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2025Ditye T, Sartorio M, Welleschik LDOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2024.102958
Names and their meanings: A dual-process account of proper-name encoding and retrieval.ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020O'Rourke T, de Diego Balaguer RDOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.11.005
What's in a name?Annals of neurology · 2015Saper CBDOI: 10.1002/ana.24354
The Name of the Dog.The New England journal of medicine · 2018Safder TDOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1806388

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: nominal
Part of: language
Has part: word
Image: Coming up with business names.jpg

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exact match: schema.org/name
manifestation of: 𝑛-tuple
Commons category: Names
topic's main category: Category:Names
equivalent class: iflastandards.info/ns/lrm/lrmer/E9
Wikidata usage instructions: beseda ali besedna zveza za identifikacijo; glej tudi lastno ime (Q147276) in osebno ime (Q1071027)
different from: full name
P8168: Emily Murphy
hashtag: name
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Anthroponymy
studied by: onomastics