ethnicname
nounUK /ˈɛθnɪk neɪm/
US /ˈɛθnɪk neɪm/
A name that tells which group of people someone or something comes from.
Her ethnic name shows that her family comes from a faraway country.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A word used to talk about a whole group of people who share a culture.
The ethnic name for that group is used in many old stories.
3. A label that describes where a person's family originally lived.
On the form, he wrote the ethnic name of his grandparents' homeland.
4. A special name that a community uses for itself.
The village kept its ethnic name for hundreds of years.