Etymology

 The word name comes from 

1. Old English nama; 
2. cognate with Old High German (OHG) namo, 
3. Sanskrit नामन् (nāman), 
4. Latin nomen, 
5. Greek ὄνομα (onoma), 
6. Persian نام (nâm), from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *h₁nómn̥.
7. Outside Indo-European, it can be connected to Proto-Uralic *nime.