appellationap‧pel‧la‧tion /ˌæpəˈleɪʃən/ noun [countable] 
Examples
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Thesaurus- And here was his whole formal appellation, as if he were her lawyer or insurance agent.
- Nor are we given any indication of how, precisely, Pilate intended the appellation to be understood.
- The appellation covers the whole of Burgundy.
- The eventual urban appellations reflected the flavor of the individual faces: New York, Geneva, Chicago, and so on.
- The second appellation is somewhat more surprising.
- This sounds expensive but this is no ordinary representative of the appellation.
THESAURUS► first name
literary a name or title (also given name especially American English formal) the name chosen for you by your parents: · People usually call each other by their first name.· Please write your given name and your date of birth.
► Christian name old-fashioned first name: · His Christian name was Joseph.
► last name/family name/surname the name that you share with your family or husband. Most English speakers would say last name. Surname sounds slightly formal: · Can I have your last name?· Johnson is a common English family name.· At school they used to call each other by their surnames.
► middle name the name between your first and last names: · Harry Potter’s middle name is James.
► full name your first name, middle name, and last name: · I need your full name and address.
► maiden name a woman’s family name before she married and began using her husband’s name: · My mother’s maiden name was Higgins.
► married name a woman’s family name after she gets married, if she uses her husband’s name: · I don’t know what her married name is.
► nickname a name that people call you because of your appearance, personality etc, which is not your real name: · At school he was given the nickname ‘Shorty’.
► stage name the name that an actor uses which is not their real name: · She began acting in her childhood under the stage name Marjorie Moore.
► pen name (also pseudonym formal) a name that a writer uses which is not their real name: · Mark Twain was his pen name. His real name was Samuel Clemens.· She wrote under the pseudonym of George Eliot.
► under an assumed name using a false name in order to hide your real name: · He had rented the car under an assumed name.
► alias a false name, especially one used by a criminal: · He uses a number of aliases.
► appellation formal a name which describes something – a very formal use: · This fine city justifies its appellation ‘the Pearl of the Orient’.
► sobriquet formal a nickname – a very formal use: · Jackson gained the sobriquet ‘Stonewall’ at the Battle of Bull Run.