OE Beowulf 78 Scop him Heort naman se þe his wordes geweald wide hæfde. OE Beowulf 343 Beowulf is min nama. OE Death of Edgar (Parker) 12 Feng his bearn syððan to cynerice, cild unweaxen, eorla ealdor, þam wæs Eadweard nama. 1330 Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1216 Marchaund ich haue ben ay, Mi nam is tramtris. 1450 J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) 138 Then may the fader..Crysten the chylde and ȝeue hyt name. 1488 Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 321 Schir Malcom Wallas was his nayme. 1531 Pylgrimage of Perfection (new ed.) f. 24 Marke therin the citees names & other places in his mynde. 1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 13 Peter Simple, you say your name is?