notable name

[+Notable]

one or more given name pieces derived from the name or names of a famous person or saint; it is often the case that the person receiving the name of a saint is born on that saint’s feast day, less often is the famous person’s birthday coincident; the n. n. is found as either the saint’s name or the famous person’s name in PS-RULE 4; we mention here in passing (no rule) that an illegitimate child may receive as a surname the name of the saint to whom the child’s lodging institution is dedicated