reputation

Etymology

14c. "credit, good reputation", Latin reputationem (“consideration, thinking over”), noun of action from past participle stem of reputo (“reflect upon, reckon, count over”), from the prefix re- (“again”) + puto (“reckon, consider”). Displaced native Old English hlīsa, which was also the word for "fame."

noun

1. What somebody is known for.
   And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation / or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people. 1529, John Frith, A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, […], Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten], page 117
   Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action. 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 12