You have rights for your name in some situations, but "ownership" is depend on how and where it is used. Usually, you have right to use your name and protect it from misleading or harmful use by other peoples, specially if it's connected with your identity or reputation. In law, this is connected to privacy rights, publicity rights, and sometime trademark law.
you have right to use your name and protect it from misleading or harmful use by other peoples
So if you do not have ownership somehow over that name, how can you "protect" it? How would you achieve that ownership of a personal name, given or taken?
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