People have names. Well, they don't have to but giving names to people, or people giving names to themselves, makes it much easier to reference them in speech and writing. Are names attributes or are they properties of people?
Update
Not relevant to the question itself but maybe interesting to know: The reason why I asked that question is because English is not my mother's tongue and in my native language, attribute and property are pretty much interchangeable by definition as attribute is a foreign word, imported from French, and translates to property. Yet in daily use people seem to make a slight distinction between those two terms. There are situations where using one of them seems natural while using the other one seems "strange", albeit not incorrect.
When reading English texts, I quite often read about "attributes of a person" where I would have expected the term "properties". So I was wondering if there is also a distinction in daily use. Answers to similar questions here sometimes hint towards such a distinction but they always refer to both words in terms of "computer language" and computer language is not necessarily bound to natural use of these words. So I was wondering, how would a native speaker refer to the name of a person? Would they say it is an attribute of that person or what they say it is a property of that person and why would they favor one over the other one?
