The phrase 'confirmed the name' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used anytime you want to express that someone has verified or affirmed a name. For example, "The witness confirmed the name of the suspect."
Paramount Pictures, the distributor, confirmed the name.
Richards Jr confirmed the name Trestellar echoes his father's former engineering company, Three Star Engineering, which went into administrative receivership in 2001.
In between signings, he even quietly confirmed the name of his ghostwriter, the former San Francisco Chronicle reporter Steve Kettmann, who has previously alluded to steroid use by players such as Giambi and Mark McGwire under his own byline.
But the person I met in the visiting room bore such little resemblance to my memory of my cousin that — had his attendant not confirmed the name — I could easily have been meeting a stranger.
"They hadn't confirmed the name, they said his girlfriend.
Tesla confirmed the name on Twitter this afternoon, after details trickled out in AutoExpress.
The station said it had confirmed the names with the National Transportation Safety Board, but it was later discovered the confirmation came from an NTSB intern.
Also on Saturday Kenya's military confirmed the names of four al-Shabaab fighters implicated in the Westgate mall attack.
6.24am GMT The Australian government says it has confirmed the names of the six citizens believed to be on board and "fears the worst".
While the United States has never formally confirmed the names of the 14 countries where passport holders face automatic additional scrutiny, they have been widely reported.
It's not clear quite how the error came about – reports suggest the summer intern confirmed the names in good faith.
