I. Preliminaries -- II. Theories of Logicians -- 1. Mill -- 2. Frege -- 3. Russell -- 4. Some More Recent Talk on Proper Names -- III. Theories of Linguists -- 1. Gardiner -- 2. Sørensen -- 3. Syntactic Regularities: Jespersen, Chomsky, Gardiner -- IV. A Constructive Move -- 1. On Dictionary Definition -- 2. The Pragmatic Dimension -- 3. The Need for Identification -- 4. Referring Expressions -- 5. Proper Names and Definite Descriptions -- 6. Identifying - Referring and Distinguishing -- 7. The Referent -- 8. Overlapping Categories -- 9. A Use - Mention Confusion -- 10. Transformation to Common Names -- 11. The Protean Use of Proper Names -- 12. Same Person - Same Name -- 13. Name-Givers -- 14. Why Name? -- 15. Conventions -- 16. Problems of Translation -- V. Conclusion.