A person’s first or baptismal name. Cobbett called this a Scotticism (Bartlett).

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1833.  Ah, but your chriss’n name: your given name?—John Neal, ‘The Down-Easters,’ i. 59.

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1835.  Captain John Cook (such we found was the ‘given-name’ and patronymic of the male occupant of the second bench,) a New-Yorker, and moreover a Revolutionary hero, became an object of attention at the termination of the Ten Mile Wood, when he came prominently forward as the proprietor of the lost bedding.—C. J. Latrobe, ‘The Rambler in North America,’ ii. 140 (N.Y.).

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1842.  Ephraim is my given-name—Ephraim Barker.—Knick. Mag., xix. 557 (June).

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1848.  Half the boys [in Mexico] seem to rejoice in the nombre (given name) of José-Maria, and as many of the gentler sex in that of Jesus (call it always Hai-soos).—Richard McSherry, ‘El Puchero,’ p. 178 (1850).

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1862.  

        “Ef your name ’s Biglow, an’ your given-name
Hosee,” sez he, “it ’s arter you I came;
I ’m your gret-gran’ther multiplied by three.”
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ Second Series, No. 6.    

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