Noun
The name of a natural person recognized on official records, especially as recorded on a birth certificate or as changed by legal process.
He signs his name "Johnny Reb Smith", but his legal name is "Jean-Marie Smith".
The name of an organisation as indicated in its founding documents, or as subsequently changed by legal process.
The legal name of "Jack's Mattresses" is "JM Enterprises {2006} (Illinois) Inc.".
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote. Bruce Sterling
Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18. Tori Amos