go by the name of
English
Verb
go by the name of (third-person singular simple present goes by the name of, present participle going by the name of, simple past went by the name of, past participle gone by the name of)
- To call oneself; to use as a name, especially a moniker or nickname.
- 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 1049714034, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:
- Beside me is an affable young man who goes by the name of Haz.
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