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That, and we have bosses who don't believe us that a single string for first and last name won't work for everyone.

Conversely (or is it inversely?), I've got a coworker whose entire, full, legal name is a single word. It just shows up twice in all of our systems.

What is his nationality, out of curiosity? Or was he born with name and surname?

BTW Just found this list, pretty short. Is it common in some societies still to have just one name?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legally_mononymous_p...

Indonesia's the most well-known example.

The other famous one is Burma - U Thant, third Secretary-General of the United Nations, was actually just called Thant, but nobody could handle that in 1961, so they stuck the Burmese version of 'Mr' on the front to make something they could recognise as a name.

I'm not sure, he works in a different office than I do. As far as I know, he's American, and I'm not sure if he had a mononym from birth, or if he changed his name.

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