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Given by his parents?


Yup.

I've got another friend/acquaintance who's got a fully legal (self chosen) single name. No first/middle/last name, just a "mononym". He has the expected hilarious outcomes with things like Google's "real name policy".


A prominent example of an interesting name is Caterina Fake.


He? So it's not Cher?


Nope. Can't even claim "acquaintance" whth Cher. Or Prince.




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