The phrase "assume the name of" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to take on or adopt a new name. Example: After his secret identity was exposed, the spy had to assume the name of a different person in order to continue his mission undetected.
Knäck (Swedish Christmas toffee) Knäck is the Swedish word for "break", so I assume the name of this seasonal toffee refers to its texture.
It being the custom for the eldest son to assume the name of the bishop who baptised them, Emanuele became Lorenzo da Ponte.
He added that while the Soldiers discourage open, public racism in their online communities, and try to disavow the unapologetic white supremacism of European chapters, they "have been unable to explain why, if they disavow racist violence, they assume the name of a racist and violent group".
And in Deuteronomy 25:6: "And it shall be that the first-born whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out from Israel".
An imperial decree of 388, which was later incorporated into the Codex Justinianus, orders the population of the Empire "to assume the name of Catholic Christians", and regards all those who will not abide by the law as "mad and foolish persons"; as followers of "heretical dogmas".
(Verdi himself would not have considered the Requiem Mass an opera, but even with twenty-seven places the wait for entry into the Club is about ten years. Women have formed a separate club, Le Verdissime, where they assume the names of Verdi's heroines).
The son of Gian Battista Caletti-Bruni, he assumed the name of his Venetian patron Federico Cavalli.
He entered a monastery at 13, took monastic vows in 1935 and with this assumed the name of Teoctist.
But in February of this year, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent received a tip that Oscar Ayala-Cornejo had assumed the name of Jose Morales.
