If you refer to a name alone and not along with a person in dialog, do you put single quotation marks around it?
E.g., "Yeah, I agree with you there. 'Jon' is pretty common, but the same could be said of 'Jeffrey,' too."
E.g., "I could go with the name, Jon, sure, but I prefer 'Jeff' instead; or maybe since my last name's Thomas I'll go with 'Tommy.'
Made up examples, but they convey what I'm iffy about fine I think. Thanks for the feedback!
Best Answer
You can use quotations or possibly even bare, but I think the best option would be to use italics, since that's more common for when talking about words as words (in this case, it's a name as a word):
I would do the same inside or outside of quotation marks, though.