legal name
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]legal name (plural legal names)
- (law) The name of a natural person recognized on official records, especially as recorded on a birth certificate or as changed by a legal process.
- Synonyms: government name, (slang) wallet name
- He signs his name "Johnny Reb Smith", but his legal name is "Jean-Marie Smith".
- (law, business) The name of an organization as indicated in its founding documents, or as subsequently changed by a legal process.
- The legal name of "Jack's Mattresses" is "JM Enterprises {2006} (Illinois) Inc.".