MEANING OF NAME.
A name is a word or group of words by which a person or thing is known, addressed, or referred to. e.g, Samuel, Israel, bag, phone etc. 
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A NAME IS NOT JUST A SOUND. The significant of a name and its value has long been immortalized in prose, poetry, and religious ceremony. Everybody recognizes himself or herself by a particular name. 
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See this big question: how does a name influence a person's character?
Let us take a look what a name is. It is the grouping of several letters of an alphabet, or other symbols, which represent the identification of an individual or a particular object.
The one thing which differentiate human beings from the animal kingdom is human mind, which has the ability to reason on a conscious level. To think consciously, a language must be used. This point is not generally appreciated but it is vitally important. It is impossible to think without language. What allows language to serve in this manner? In the case of languages which have alphabets, letters are placed in a definite sequence in the alphabet, i.e., in the English alphabet, "A" is always in the first position, "B" in the second position, and so on. Any alphabet is an alphabet because symbols are recognized by their form or sound in a definite order--change the order and confusion results.