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

Any red flags—from poor eye contact and repetitive behaviors to failing to respond to one’s name—surfaced only in the second year, or sometimes even later.

From Scientific American

The Convention on the Rights of the Child, approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, asserts that nations must “respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity,” a requirement that extends to one’s name and family relationships.

From New York Times

The incredible decision to uproot oneself—to say goodbye to home and family, travel hundreds or thousands of miles into the unknown, and risk ruin and death with hardly a naira or West African franc to one’s name—didn’t always answer to facts.

From The New Yorker

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

From Project Gutenberg