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A more realistic example for 40 ("people have names"): Newborns might not have a name. Lots of systems might have to handle newborns.

• kergonath 5y ago
  Some systems even have to handle not-yet-borns. An example I have seen is that when pregnant in France, you might have to pre-register your future child for one reason or another (a common one is waiting lists for childcare, but some paperwork requires it in other situations). Ours had “À naître” [to be born] as a first name, as the forms did not accept no first name.
• shakna 5y ago
  Realistic name from working in the NT: Someone with your name died, so you no longer have a name until the elders convene to give you one. This may take somewhere between hours and years. However, after a period of time dictated by the hierarchial position of the one who died, you will be given the choice to retake your previous name, or maintain your new one, if you have it. Several name changes with the differing clocks for switching may overlap. Each time, you may end up with interspersed periods of no name. Every time a change occurs, you are not normally allowed to acknowledge that the previous name was ever attached to you. As such, your gov IDs have a numeric constant, like everyone else, but no name fields. On an island of a thousand, I estimated roughly 10% of people at any one time had no name.