In contrast, ordinary names such as "Socrates" actually are definitive descriptions.

"Franklin is such an ordinary name," his grandmother used to say.

Oh, just an ordinary name she had.

There is barely a celebrity child in the world with a nice, ordinary name.

But it's a very ordinary name if you write it down in the normal way, like it is here you see.

Why didn't these people have ordinary names?

It was a perfectly ordinary name, and nobody she'd ever heard of before.

At other times of year trees of most of these species are usually known by their ordinary names.

"It is such a nice, ordinary name," she said.

"It's time for a nice ordinary name in this family," she declared.