Define "poorly". Hospitals I've worked with just tend to put in codes for unnamed babies (such as "NBM", "NBF", surname if known, etc.) for the name fields of

Define "poorly". Hospitals I've worked with just tend to put in codes for unnamed babies (such as "NBM", "NBF", surname if known, etc.) for the name fields of legacy programs. If you over-heavily relied on the names in the first case, you'd have a big problem with multiple baby John Smiths in the maternity ward.