Lesson 2: How to say 'What is your name?' in German

In Germany there are three common ways to ask for someone's name.

Wie heißt du?
This literally means 'How are you called?', the appropriate response is:

Ich heiße ______ (name).

Also, you can say:
Wie ist dein Name?
This is word by word 'What is your name?'. The answer to this question is:

Mein Name ist ______(name).

Another way to ask for someone's name is:
Wer bist du?
It actually means 'Who are you?' and in the answer to this question you can put some additional info about yourself, eg. your job:

Mein Name  _____ (name), ich bin _____ (job, etc.).

In the most cases, you can use any of these answers to respond to all of these questions, so you can talk more diversified.