The phrase "ancestral name" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a name that has been passed down through generations, often associated with family heritage or lineage.
Example: "She proudly carries her ancestral name, which has been in her family for over three centuries."
Alternatives: "heritage name" or "family name".
Earlier versions used Berhe's ancestral name, Medhanie Tesfamariam Kidane.
Right now it's Smith, but I'm going to change it to my ancestral name when I get a chance".
Her ancestral name, meaning "precious flower", can be traced back through five generations of musicians to the house of Kamehameha and Ahiakumai which ruled Hawaii in the 15th century.
They said the man sent to Italy was in fact Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe, known to some friends by his ancestral name of Kidane, a 29-year-old refugee arrested in a street in Khartoum late last month.
With his "Make Donald Drumpf Again" campaign last week (Drumpf is the candidate's ancestral name), Oliver's attempted to pull apart Trump's image as a successful businessman who speaks truth to power.
Meanwhile, in Sudan, Norway and Italy, members of Berhe's family maintained that it was their young relative, known to some friends by his ancestral name of Kidane, who had been confused for Mered.
The narrator of the African sections is an Ethiopian who has travelled down to Uganda through Kenya, having shed the 13 ancestral names his father gave him.
During this time, he and another writer, Adolfo Bioy Casares, jointly wrote detective stories under the pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq (combining ancestral names of the two writers' families), which were published in 1942 as Seis problemas para Don Isidro Parodi (Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi).
The ancestral names are called by the shamans during the process of making offerings to the ancestral spirits.
They are chanted by shamans during the Sen Huen ritual, which lasts 7 8 hours depending on numbers of ancestral names written on the genealogical book called.
Ancestral names from scriptural genealogies are cleverly exposited as cryptic allusions to meaningful milestones along the path of the people's maturation.
