A Semantic Study of First and Nick Names in English with References to its Realizations in Arabic

The present paper attempts to examine the semantic phenomenon of naming in English and Arabic Languages. It also tries to examine the naming fashion in both languages. It aims at showing the similarity and differences of the characteristics, meanings, structures, legality, origins, of naming in both languages. Names that children receive from their parents reveal certain insights about cultural change and thought and inter-cultural aspects that characterized each society from others.