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.
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 ;-)
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.
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)
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.
