The sentence "earn a name" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express that a person has gained recognition and respect. Example: She worked hard and was eventually successful, earning a name for herself in the business world.
That the form has become familiar enough to earn a name seemed to validate her argument about the medium's evolution.
Since then the country has had to endure a run of stormy weather, and so far nine storms have been powerful enough to earn a name.
He became a gofer in a local gang – a "schmuck slave" as he calls it – and started to earn a name in the neighbourhood.
Today she is one of the Libyan dictator's most closely trusted lieutenants, but nearly three decades ago Ben Amer was a young woman in Benghazi keen to earn a name with the regime.
"Be sure not to allow this particular criminal to commit suicide, and thus earn a name for himself as a martyr," Yongzheng wrote to the provincial official who reported on Tang's treatise.
Consider that, as the reigning compact luxury sedan, every upstart that moseys into frame thinks it can earn a name by merely besting the BMW.
There he earned a name for quiet efficiency, spending eight years deliberating and consulting as he steadily invested in development.
Under the visionary leadership of Maria Balshaw, the institution has earned a name as a vibrant bastion of contemporary art.
He subsequently earned a name for accessibility to the media and his attempts to explain police decisions to outsiders.
It has now earned a name for itself as the centre of China's kidnapping industry.A father's searchThe Economist's reporter first met Mr Wang a year ago.
By the nineteen-eighties, the kind of evidence that was routinely admitted into court without any statistical grounding or rationale had earned a name: "junk science".
