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if a bunch of people started naming their daughters Table, Table WOULD be a name. Whether something IS a name or not is not a matter of opinion but of empirical fact. If it has been an official legal designation of a human being, it IS a name, no matter how much you or I dislike it. To call it "not a name" seems to me to be a use of the psychological defense mechanism of denial. It simply doesn't reflect reality to say that a name you don't like "isn't a name".