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Very cool to see mention of "one name only" case. My wife had only one name before we married. She's Indonesian. When we got married in Australia our forms pret

Very cool to see mention of "one name only" case. My wife had only one name before we married. She's Indonesian. When we got married in Australia our forms pretty much crashed the Government's Birth's, Death's and Marriages system. We got bounced around between all different people trying to compute the reality that in some parts of the world, people have only one name.

1996 7y ago
In the US, she would have been forced to use the infamous "FNU" (first name unknown) https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/visa-errors/name-appears-as-fnu/ https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/visa-errors/name-appears-as-f... because governments prefer not respecting people names and customs, just so they can push their own customs (and in that case their name too, because "FNU" is the 30'000 most popular name in the US now)
- henrikschroder 7y ago
  Is there a "last name unknown" as well? There's absolutely individuals for which this is true as well.
zebnyc 7y ago
One of my indonesian friends also had only one name. She named herself as Noel as she felt that was better than being referred to as Ms. Null.
- codr7 7y ago
  Reminds me of little Bobby Tables. https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
- funcDropShadow 7y ago
  I once worked on a project, which used the Dow Jones list of people of interest, a list of politicians and terrorists, mostly. One day the software began to fail catastrophically, when parsing the latest version of that list. That day, a Mr. Null was added to that list ;-)
  - thelittleone 7y ago
    As in no name at all? Now that’s an entirely new level. Pretty forward thinking parents considering today’s surveillance... maybe they where phreakers tried to name him ' OR '1'='1 but the Government didn’t accept special characters so they resorted to naming him null. :)
Wildgoose 7y ago
A family friend had this problem when he immigrated to the UK from India. He just repeated his single name as it was both his forename and his surname.

1996 7y ago

In the US, she would have been forced to use the infamous "FNU" (first name unknown) https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/visa-errors/name-appears-as-fnu/ https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/visa-errors/name-appears-as-f... because governments prefer not respecting people names and customs, just so they can push their own customs (and in that case their name too, because "FNU" is the 30'000 most popular name in the US now)

henrikschroder 7y ago
Is there a "last name unknown" as well? There's absolutely individuals for which this is true as well.

zebnyc 7y ago

One of my indonesian friends also had only one name. She named herself as Noel as she felt that was better than being referred to as Ms. Null.

codr7 7y ago
Reminds me of little Bobby Tables. https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
funcDropShadow 7y ago
I once worked on a project, which used the Dow Jones list of people of interest, a list of politicians and terrorists, mostly. One day the software began to fail catastrophically, when parsing the latest version of that list. That day, a Mr. Null was added to that list ;-)
- thelittleone 7y ago
  As in no name at all? Now that’s an entirely new level. Pretty forward thinking parents considering today’s surveillance... maybe they where phreakers tried to name him ' OR '1'='1 but the Government didn’t accept special characters so they resorted to naming him null. :)

Wildgoose 7y ago

A family friend had this problem when he immigrated to the UK from India. He just repeated his single name as it was both his forename and his surname.