Is it right English to ask: "Whats your GOOD NAME?"?

Question

In India, It is usual to ask a person "Whats your Good name?". People think that it is a polite way to ask the name of a person. But is it a correct English usage?

Answer 1

no, we just use: whats your name ... it depends how you say it in order for it to sound polite or unpolite

Answer 2

In most circumstances, people are looking for you to say something like "not much...what's up with you?" It follows the same pattern as the typical "how are you?"/ "fine, how are you?" exchange. It's a registration of greeting and minimal interest in the other person, not a real question, and people don't expect a detailed answer. However, under some circumstances, it is an actual question...for example, you are expected to provide a real answer if your friend sees you having a heated discussion with someone else and says "what's up?" as you walk angrily away. In that circumstance, your friend is expressing interest and concern while trying to keep the tone light - to avoid embarrassing you by sounding too concerned, possibly, or to avoid giving too much emphasis to a passing difference of opinion.

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Is it right English to ask: "Whats your GOOD NAME?"?
In India, It is usual to ask a person "Whats your Good name?". People think that it is a polite way to ask the name of a person. But is it a correct English usage?

Answer 4

"what is your good name" is a Hindi way and it's directly translated in English to ask a person's name. So it is wrong to use in original English.
I have noticed some well educated people use this way, but it is wrong and we cannot talk any languages correct by directly translating by matching words of our own language.
"What is your name" is English.
And in spoken "what's your name please" will do pretty good.

Answer 5

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To my friends and I, it means "what are you doing right now?" I would respond, for example, "I'm talking to friends and listening to music. and you?" Whatever it is that i'm doing when they ask that question. Sometimes you'll get people asking this question face-to-face. I've heard some people say "hey/hi" and "not much, you?" or they would say "i'm doing 'this and that'" , you know? So, "what's up?" just means "what are you doing right now?" And you just tell them what you're doing at the moment. =]

Answer 6

Do you mean their first name, like Stacy or Michael? Some people call that their "Christian name", but I say first name. Or did you mean the second name, which in English would be their "surname", or "last name". I've never heard "good name", actually. Either way is fairly polite.

Answer 7

What Is Your Good Name

Answer 8

Yeap I was surprised the first time I heard it in India but happily accepted it as excessive politeness.

I think in the U.S. people might be surprised too or amused. You can just ask, what is your name?

Answer 9

I think you shouldn't ask one's name that way out of India, or perhaps Chinese. It's the orient culture to express respect to others. But in occidentally culture, people may be just perplex by that.
**** luck!

Answer 10

Better you can ask like "May I know your good name?".