Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

"My first name is Esme. I don't think I shall tell you my full name, for the moment. I have a title and you may just be impressed by titles. Americans are, you know."

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standard that implies).