We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

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His Hellenic Jewish parents called him Joseph ( although the Byzantine text-type calls him, Iōsēs, ' Joses ', a Greek variant of ' Joseph '), but when he sold all his goods and gave the money to the apostles in Jerusalem, they gave him a new name: Barnabas.

At the time of his birth, Chaplin's parents were both entertainers in the music hall tradition: Hannah, the daughter of a shoemaker, had a brief and unsuccessful career under the stage name Lily Harley, while Charles Sr., a butcher's son, worked as a popular singer.

Although his name and history were taken from his early life with his adoptive Earth parents, everything about Clark was staged for the benefit of his alternate identity: as a reporter for the Daily Planet, he receives late-breaking news before the general public, has a plausible reason to be present at crime scenes, and need not strictly account for his whereabouts as long as he makes his story deadlines.

( His parents chose " his kooky name "— he would be known as Zowie for the next 12 years — after the Greek word zoe, life.

His parents emigrated from Poland in 1863, changed their name from Pozerski to de Pomiane, and became French citizens.

A family name ( in Western contexts often referred to as a surname or last name ) is typically a part of a person's name which has been passed, according to law or custom, from one or both parents to their children.

There is Blair leading a respectable, outwardly eventless life at his parents ' house in Southwold, writing ; then in contrast, there is Blair as Burton ( the name he used in his down-and-out episodes ) in search of experience in the kips and spikes, in the East End, on the road, and in the hop fields of Kent.

His parents selected his middle name in honor of Spanish – American War hero George Dewey.

The child was originally given the name Alcides by his parents ; it was only later that he became known as Heracles.

According to his son ( Johnny Jr ), Johnny ( senior ) was named Peter by his parents ; but, once he began to be successful as a swimmer, he formally used his brother's name, Johnny, because his brother John was, by birth, an American citizen ( and had official records that verified this fact ), and Peter was not ( this was done so that non-citizen Peter could represent USA in the Olympics ).

Abraham Landis had been wounded fighting on the Union side at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia, and when his parents proved unable to agree on a name for the new baby, Mary Landis proposed that they call him Kenesaw Mountain.

Zamenhof's parents gave him the Hebrew name Eliezer, which appeared on his birth certificate in its Yiddish form Leyzer.

The " holiness " injunctions which give the code its name begin with the next section: penalties are imposed for the worship of Molech, consulting mediums and wizards, cursing one's parents and engaging in unlawful sex.

Shamed by his crimes, his parents ( Jules and Arlene ) disown him, move away, and change their name to the anagram " Thorul ".

He had been taught about his heritage by his parents and understood the sacred significance associated with the name Mormon.

Once the band had settled on a name and stable line-up, they moved rehearsals to Lovering's parents ' garage in mid-1986.

A strong preference for sons — who in Korea's traditional Confucian value system are expected to care for their parents in old age and carry on the family name — means that parents with only daughters usually continued to have children until a son is born.

Ralph Gabriel gave it the name of Protestant philosophy of Progress.

Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

Hereford cattle were often called `` white faces '', or `` open-face cattle '', and the old-time cowman gave the name of `` hothouse stock '' to them newly introduced cattle.

The northern cowboy called all the red Mexican cattle which went up the trail `` Sonora reds '', while they called all cattle drove up from Mexico `` yaks '', because they came from the Yaqui Injun country, or gave 'em the name of `` Mexican buckskins ''.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

`` God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life '', and `` as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name ''.

`` As many as received Him ( Jesus ), to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name ''.

There is Mijbil, an otter who travelled with Maxwell -- and gave Maxwell's name to a new species -- from the Tigris marshes to his London flat.

Her name was Sabella, and the strip of seaweed around her neck was an emerald necklace the King gave her as a token of his undying love.

The Greeks gave to him the name αγυιεύς agyieus as the protector god of public places and houses who wards off evil, and his symbol was a tapered stone or column.

The European sailors and merchants gave the name Levant to the west and south coasts of Asia Minor, including Syria.

Actinium gave the name to the actinide series, a group of 15 similar elements between actinium and lawrencium in the periodic table.

The first element of the actinides, actinium gave the group its name, much as lanthanum had done for the lanthanides.

Diodorus uses ēlektron, the Greek word for amber, the object that gave its name to electricity through its ability to acquire a charge.

Abbotsford gave its name to the " Abbotsford Club ", a successor of the Bannatyne and Maitland clubs, founded by William Barclay Turnbull in 1834 in Scott's honour, for printing and publishing historical works connected with his writings.

Walafrid Strabo, a monk of the Abbey of St. Gall writing in the 9th century, remarked, in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions, that only foreigners called them the Alemanni, but that they gave themselves the name of Suevi.

According to an interview she gave to an Egyptian journalist, her first name was Yvonne, though she is referred to as Yvette in most published references.

The last of Alfred's works is one to which he gave the name Blostman, i. e., " Blooms " or Anthology.

* Cyme, who gave her name to the city of Cyme ( Aeolis )

* Smyrna, who obtained possession of Ephesus and gave her name to a quarter in this city, as well as to the city of Smyrna

Algoritmi, the translator's rendition of the author's name, gave rise to the word algorithm ( Latin algorithmus, " calculation method ").

Carnegie once gave $ 25, 000 to Speaker of the House David B. Henderson to erect a library on the campus of Upper Iowa University in his name.

" They gave my name and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber.

Also vexatious were the Saxons, the name Roman writers gave to the peoples who lived in the northern part of what is now Germany and the southern part of the Jutland peninsula.