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given name

the first name of a person; name given at birth or baptism, as distinguished from the surname; forename

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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