Citations:dead name

alt form of deadname

 * 2013, Anne Cognito, Sunlight in the Darkness : My life as a trans woman in the shadows (ISBN 9781291605983), page 94:
 * Despite his terrible memory he soon realised who I was and my old name was safe. He then came out with a frankly brilliant alternative for old name/dead name/former name: he calls it my maiden name. It seems so appropriate; I just love it.
 * 2016, Michele Angello, Ali Bowman, Raising the Transgender Child: A Complete Guide for Parents, Families, and Caregivers (Seal Press, ISBN 9781580056366):
 * I've heard I should never "dead name" someone. What is dead naming, and why should I never do it?
 * Someone's "dead name" is a name they no longer use, a name that was given to them at birth. Often this name reflects the gender they were assigned at birth. [...] Also, for many people, their dead name carries a lot of emotional baggage. For some people, [...] calling them by their dead name can out them[.]

another sense; SOP?

 * 1990, Workshop proceedings: Mach, October 4-5, 1990, Burlington, Vermont
 * When a task tries to send a message to a dead name, the resulting error lets the task know that the port died and its send right is no longer valid. The task can then deallocate the dead name. Like send rights, dead names have ...
 * 2007, Elizabeth Haydon, The Assassin King (ISBN 9781429920551):
 * But, as always, there was no taste of any of the names on the wind. Finally, he intoned the last name. Ysk. This name, of course, was different. Unlike the others, it was the dead name of a living being, a name once given, in another lifetime, to a ...
 * 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel (ISBN 9780698170506), page 313:
 * That is a dead name of a dead woman in a dead city. Keep running because she's dead.