to one's name

Idioms  

1. Owned by one, as in He has not got a nickel to his name, or She has only one pair of shoes to her name. This idiom was first recorded in 1876.

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Example Sentences

The Doctors Doctor On Demand; whether the trait of clumsiness is tied to one’s name; stopping digital drain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2021

After all those experiences, to be lying on the ground like some tramp in Europe, without a thing to one's name, was to be merely grotesque and incongruous.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)

The real flattering thing would be to be made as much of as Philip is, for one's own merits, and not for the handle to one's name.'

From The Heir of Redclyffe by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

It taught me the value of being explicit as to one's name.

From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway

A handle to one's name, an estate, all the little earmarks of "nobility" are not only required but insisted on.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise