What’s in A Name?
What’s in A Name?

Summary/Abstract: In order to individualize the personality of an individual in relation to another individual, the name of the physical person (surname and forename) must be used. The name is attributed to the individual at the same time with his registration in the birth certificate so that the act of civil status is the title that will justify wearing a name and it will also prove it. The name becomes a legal concept, its structure and rules of assigning are the subject of the regulations, and not the name itself. A person’s name concerns his family and private life, constituting a way of personal identification and a family relationship. The function of a name as a means to individualize a person has resulted in that private law and public law aspects are inter-twined.

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