given name phrase

a name or phrase given to a person at birth or other culturally significant event; the g. n. p. is described in PS-RULE [PS3]; the g. n. p. may be 1) a single given name piece, 2) two given name pieces connected with either a hyphen, e.g., “Jean-Pierre,” a participle, e.g., “Johann gen. Hans,” or a separator, e.g., “Johannes or Hans,” 3) one or more given name pieces, e.gg., “Johann Thomas Wilhelm Georg”, “George Washington Andrew Jackson”; sometimes the g. n. p. is referred to as the “personal name” or “prename”; in England they call it a “forename”, in Latin it is the “praenomen”, in French the “prenom”; in many cultures its form reflects the sex of the child bearing it