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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to one's name

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

There was nothing left for Dolores to do but to sit by in the window-seat, philosophizing on the remarkable effects of a handle to one's name, and feeling cruelly neglected.

From The Two Sides of the Shield by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

All that has been accomplished is the displacement of the objective point; the desire, the mania for a handle to one’s name is as prevalent as ever. 

From Worldly Ways and Byways by Gregory, Eliot

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

Nothing is simpler, nowadays, than to get permission to add to one's name the name of some estate, or forest, or even the name of a meadow, or a bit of land of any sort.

From Renée Mauperin by Hallard, Alys