Bible Verses About Name Change

One shall say, I am the Lord’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

And Nebo, and Baal–meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.

And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.

Then said God, Call his name Lo–ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

And Simon he surnamed Peter;

For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed–nego.

And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.

And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.

And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben–oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

Abram; the same is Abraham.

And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord God liveth.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor–missabib.

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.