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Given names
The name you are given — saints, generation syllables, fashion files and the gap between a legal forename and what people actually shout.
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🌳Surnames
The inheritable tag — how hereditary surnames, Spanish double names, Icelandic patronymics and marriage laws organise kin on paper.
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🙂Nicknames
The unofficial name — shortenings, teasing, honorifics and the everyday politics of what you answer to.
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🔄Name changes
When the string on the file must move — marriage, migration, gender, safety and the paperwork that follows a new name.
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