Motion diagram. This sign is outside the licensed video corpus, so the diagram is its full record here.
NAME
“name”
Cross the fingers of two 'H' hands and tap them together twice.
Where the sign comes from
UnknownNo reliable source. We'd rather say so than invent one.
The crossed-H form is old and stable, but no reliable source explains why 'name' is signed this way. Marked unknown rather than guessed.
No sources — which is the point of the “unknown” tier. If you know of a documented account, the historical databases are where to check it.
The sign, taken apart
Every ASL sign is built from a handshape, a place it's made, and a movement. Learn to see these three and you can read and store any sign.
Made at the neutral space.
Both hands move together.
Repeated. Palm facing in.
Easy to confuse with
These differ from NAME in one or two parameters — the minimal pairs our receptive drills use to make sure you can really tell them apart.