Personal names are a subcategory of proper names. The latter consists of nominals that refer to a specific object, place, person, persons, or class, and no other. Personal names identify individual persons, whether divine (Tetragrammaton) or human. In English and related languages, linguists identify common nouns as having sense, but not reference. Thus ‘human’ as a common noun has sense. One can look up the word in a dictionary and find a definition. However, it does not refer to a particular human and so does not have reference. However, a personal name such as Adam does have reference…