Take my name for example my family name is Jia 贾 and my first name is Min Yong 民雍 and I have an English name David for conveniences sake living in the US.

What do you call someone with two first names. Some imply the birthplace birth time or natural phenomenon like Jing Beijing Chen morning Dong winter and Xue snow. Updated 2 years ago Author has 18K answers and 39M answer views. James Kirk from Star Trek.

French usage now prefers a hyphen to connect double given names. And apparently on further Internet searching there is the term firsty firsty for this. See this blog as an example.

But actually friends call. The mixing of two words or names to create a third word or name is the formation of a Portmanteau. You might think Id welcome people using Katharine since I go by two surnames my married name and the one I was born with.

The other person can always say Please call me first name No harm no foul. Someone introduced as. Cameron Mitchell a man who has two first names that are also two last names.

Double names were not originally hyphenated. No one ever called her Claudia. Binomial means having a double name.

In the case of historical figures it may be the only one of the individuals. And in that respect I have to admit there is a certain admiration that I have for it. Chinese names are meant to convey special meaning with the given names often expressing the best of wishes on the new-born.