Tony Crisp Interpretation:
Your name represents your sense of self, your essential “I.” If the name is altered: suggests a sense of change in the way you see yourself. Other people’s names: feelings for that person; the quality you feel in regard to someone else with the same name; or wordplay or associations with the name. Names also suggest qualities—as in Peter, the rock; or one’s friend Pat may be pleasure-loving—so we use the name or person to represent that quality. See wordplay, puns. Place names: these can represent your feelings about the place, or be similar to personal names in their suggestion of something. Idioms: Call someone names; clear someone’s name; have a bad name; not a thing to one’s name; in name alone; in the name of; make a name for oneself; namedropper; one’s middle name; name is mud; somebody who shall be nameless; or my name’s not ...; worthy of the name; name in vain; lend one’s name to; name the day.