first name

1. 1.

   the name that precedes the surname

   Synonymsgiven nameforename

   Broadername

   NarrowerChristian namepraenomen

Questions about first name

What does first name mean?

first name means "the name that precedes the surname".

What is another word for first name?

Close synonyms include given name, forename. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is first name a common word?

first name is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.