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There must be an interesting backstory here. Did her parents deliberately not name her? Did they forget?

The hospital staff filled out most of the birth certificate, but left the name field blank when they gave my grandmother the paperwork to take home. She either didn't notice or didn't care (both possibilities are realistic) that the name field was blank and submitted it anyway. The state accepted it.

My mother started filling out her own paperwork around elementary school because my grandmother created so many problems that school staff would simply give up.

I mean.. there are tons of people without last names in the world. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

And first names, which causes some government agencies to put FNU in that field for "first name unknown".

My mom told me about a time they had someone with that situation at work, and people would call the person FNU until they were corrected.

Or NMI for nor middle initial, I think I've heard of stuff like NA, too...

And more and more:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

FI²N sounds like a nice first name (Fuck If I Know)

Well if you have one name, that's your last name.

I assume you're making a joke. In any case, no that's not true. Because if it's your first and last name and you type it in both fields, you are now screwed in a different way.

A high school teacher of mine didn't have a last name, only a first name. Problem was when she moved (from India) she had to have a last name because a bunch of systems and people assume a last name as a fact, so her full name is just her first name twice because she didn't want to think of a different one :p

Ah yes! Little miss (indecipherable silence).

royalty?

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