Is identity in a name

Answer 1

The simple answer is No.

The complex answer is, it depends who is asking.

Present practice is to issue an identity to someone or something. (e.g., your parents name you or your company gives you a number).

Entities either choose to acknowledge the issued identity or they issue a new one (or sometimes issue attributes to existing identities).

Some entities may trust other entities, so the same identity may be used (e.g., your parents named you Sam, your grandparents trust your parents, so they in turn identify you as Sam)

However, the concept of who you are is an enigmatic concept.

Proper understanding of identity evades most. I believe that identity is biological for mammalia.

Abstract philosophy may suggest that you become your name or things emulate names, or names make the man, or they are because they are called.

That is referring to identity from a perspective. Names have long has historical attributes associated with them. I do not have scientific studies available to determine the truth behind. I do know that most people encountered in my experience act the same after a name change though.