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My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me…

— Holly Marie Combs

Named after my mother.

— Bonnie Raitt

I wanted to make a name for myself.

— Katie Cassidy

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

— James Joyce

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before…

— Tori Amos

I think the name perfectly encapsulates my soul, and so I get to be myself with the safety of a different name.

— King Princess

My mom raised me on her own, so I decided to take her name 'cause she was my mom and my dad.

— Kaya Scodelario

A name makes no matter to me, as long as I can call you my own.

— Anonymous

The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became…

— Philip Ridley

The traditional path to making a name for yourself in our family is running for elective office, and I couldn't do that because, for…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

My name is more important than myself.

— Pierre Cardin