The phrase "designate a name" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the assigning of a name to a particular person, thing, or place. For example, "The organization designated a new name for the facility to better reflect its purpose."
My John Doe Building Q. Can I officially designate a name for a city building I own? A. Unofficially, you can call your building — on its entryway, on its stationery, in conversation — anything you want, as long as you aren't breaking someone else's trademark or misrepresenting the place.
Most commonly, as in his chapter on the divine names in Openings, he uses presence to designate a name's realm of influence and then describes various ways in which the properties and traces of the name are displayed in the cosmos and human beings; one might say that he is describing how things participate in Platonic ideas.
For various reasons that remain unknown, the cyclone was only designated a name by the time it had crossed into the area of responsibility of the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in La Réunion.
Wording for any plaques designating a named space should be developed in conjunction with, and have the approval of, the Office of Donor Relations in Resource Development.
The two marks, "Planned Parenthood" and "plannedparenthood.com "are nearly identical; the only distinctions are the latter's lack of initial capitalization, the lack of a space between words, and the ".com" that is necessary to designate a domain name.
The Secretary may designate an official name for any drug or device if he determines that such action is necessary or desirable in the interest of usefulness and simplicity.
Students used their results to designate an official name for the gene they investigated, one that reflected its putative function based on their research.
Each unique syllable was designated a letter name, then letter names were translated into numbers for analysis in MATLAB, where A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc.Plain text files were created with each line representing a motif as a string of numbers.
Whenever such a single official name has not been recommended within one hundred and eighty days after such request, or the Secretary determines that any name so recommended is not useful for any reason, he shall designate a single official name for such drug or drugs or device.
The US analoguee" controls can designate a substance not named in legislation illegal if it is "substantially similar" to a drug already controlled – a system criticised for being ambiguous.
Care must be taken to avoid confusing the definite article al- meaning "the" with the form Āl, a different Arabic construction that is used to designate a family or tribal name.
