My pleasure.

Thank you all for the information.

【Quoted from your ad】 おなまえはトラビスです！ 【My comment】 As someone else has already pointed out right, "お" here is an honorific prefix, which means you NEVER use it when you talk about your own name. ／You should just say "名前はトラビスです" even if someone asked your name using "お" like " (あなたの) お名前は何ですか" so as to show respect to you.

Hi Travis, As Tetiana wrote above, there are a slew of ways to state your name in Japanese, and many include varying levels of politeness, which make some ways appropriate for formal or informal occasions. With the caveat that I am a non-native (but proficient) speaker of Japanese, let me give you three basic ways to state your name. I will try to side-step the politeness issue for now, with "neutral politeness" (which would need to be changed, based on the situation). 1. 私はジョシュアです。(I'm Joshua.) 2. 私の名前はジョシュアです。 (My name is Joshua.) 3. 私はジョシュアと言います。(I'm called Joshua.) Of the three above, in my experience, numbers 1 and 3 above are most common. Number 2, while not wrong, looks like textbook Japanese. (When you introduce yourself in English, do you usually say, "Hi, I'm Travis" or "Hi, my name is Travis?") Next, please note that Japanese is a "pronoun-drop" language, which means pronouns (and subjects) are often left unsaid when they are thought to be clear from context. So, in practice, the three sentences are often expressed as follows: 1. ジョシュアです。(I'm Joshua.) 2. ジョシュアです。 (My name is Joshua.) 3. ジョシュアと言います。(I'm called Joshua.) Please remember, these are only three basic ways; there are more. Finally, about 「お名前」、the 「お」in front of「名前」is an "honorific" prefix, or a politeness marker that sometimes gets latched onto words to sound nicer when talking to other people. Adding「お」to「名前」is customary when asking *other people* their names, like in the following (polite-neutral) example: お名前は何ですか？(What's your name?) This is often shortened to: お名前は？ (You name is...?) I hope that helps answer your question. Best of luck in your Japanese learning journey! これからも頑張って下さい！

私の　名前は　テチアナ　です → 　my name is tetiana. 私は　テチアナと　言います → I am called tetiana. (I am referred to/spoken to by the name tetiana) there are even more ways of introducing yourself - polite, formal, business formal, casual.. you’ll learn it as you go!