Fan pages for businesses, brands and celebrities will be able to adopt such names, too.
Facebook says people will be able to choose the names on a first-come, first-served basis.
In doing this, Facebook is playing catch-up with News Corp.-owned MySpace, which has let its users pick their own monikers since its 2004 launch.
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