What's in the name?

They simply identify a person, or a group, a family, an employment, a tradesman, or a form of identification that identified someone. It distinguishes what they are known as or called  that could be implemented into ownership control and legal dealings. Which  makes names in use today all inherited names!

These names fall into many categories a few listed below:

The individual [Personal names]

The group of individuals [Names which are relevant as to where they lived or what they  did]

The property of an individual [Collective names that were given to individuals by their owner, sects, institutions, etc.]

The list goes on but they all signify the same thing that the person can be identified, in conversation and  in attesting the truth of some statement or event or record

Type of names

We now know names as first names and last names some known as Christian name and surname.

First names

This is a "familiar" name that people were given that was personal to them this would identify them in their group or clan.

Last name [surname]

This is a name that was taken  by the individual to identify them outside of their group or clan, this name differentiated the from others Surnames [last names] loosely fall into four or five categories, that is groups that are identified by the original selected context of the name.