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  2. Naming in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The name entered the top 1000 list for girls in 1985 and has been a top 10 name since 1997. [ 2 ] In 2014, the name Arya, the name of a character on the popular series Game of Thrones , saw a dramatic rise to the 216th most popular girls name.

  3. Oprah wasn't always Oprah: Her birth name revealed - AOL

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    Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...

  4. Birth name - Wikipedia

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    A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name. [1]

  5. Personal name - Wikipedia

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    A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek prósōpon – person, and onoma –name) [1] is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together as a word-group, they all relate to that one individual. [2] In many cultures, the term is synonymous with the birth name or legal name of the

  6. Apostrophe - Wikipedia

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    Where a business name is based on a family name it should in theory take an apostrophe, but many leave it out (contrast Sainsbury's with Harrods). In recent times there has been an increasing tendency to drop the apostrophe. Names based on a first name are more likely to take an apostrophe, but this is not always the case.

  7. How Princess Diana forever changed how royal women give birth

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    But that wasn’t the only way Diana changed royal birth traditions. Queen Victoria had given six natural births before discovering anesthetics—chloroform, at that point—in 1853.

  8. Maiden and married names - Wikipedia

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    A common name does not replace a person's family name as written on their birth certificate. From 4 March 2002 to 4 December 2009, children given both parents' names had to have them separated by a double dash (ex: Dupont--Clairemont). On 4 December 2009, the Conseil d'État ruled that a space can be used instead of the double dash.

  9. Oprah wasn't always Oprah: Her birth name revealed - AOL

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