your good name

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.45 in modern English

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Your name.

British usage; Archaic

"‘Society ought to be proud of such men as you, Mr. – what is your good name, sir?’ – ‘Phiggins, at your service.’"
"'That must be your nick name. But what's your good name ?' 'I ain't get any bad name only one name Goofy.' She laughs. 'It's a funny name for a man.'"
"The man moved a little away and cleaned himself. "And your good name?" "You can call me Satyadas.""
"“What's your good name?” I asked him. “Marcos,” he replied."
"What is your good name, sahib?"

In modern South Asian English, likely calque of Bengali ভালো নাম (bhalō nam), Hindi शुभ नाम (śubh nām, literally “good name”), and similar collocations in other Indian languages. Good has a sense similar to honourable, as in older English phrases such as “good sir” or “your good wife”.

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