Before the Hanoverian succession, when the use of "princess" became settled practice, royal daughters were styled Lady Forename or the Lady Forename.
His forename was Rolihlahla - which in the tongue of his native Xhosa tribe means "troublemaker".
Steven Wright's forename has also been changed to Steve, the name he always went by.
He was named Isidore but adopted the forename Anthony in his teens.
Commonest are patronymic or matronymic surnames, which derive from a mother or father's forename.
Strom Thurmond - his forename was his mother's maiden name - was born into a country lawyer's family in Edgefield, South Carolina.
His forename Phoebus means "bright" or "pure," and the view became current that he was connected with the sun.
Before that, in both England and Scotland, the children of the monarchs were styled as Lord Forename or Lady Forename.
Under the empire (after 27 bc), it was regularly adopted by the ruler as a forename and gradually came to apply to his office.
This is called simply the name, the baptismal or Christian name, or the forename; in the United States and Canada it is usually called the first name or the given name.
