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Built-in Mathematica Symbol

SymbolName

SymbolName[symbol]
gives the name of the specified symbol.

The name of the symbol x is the string "x":

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Symbol and SymbolName are inverses of each other:

Many functions of symbols also accept symbol names as arguments:

SymbolName always gives the short name, without any context:

ToString takes the settings of $Context and $ContextPath into account:

SymbolName evaluates its input: