Legal Name

Full Title or Meme

A Legal Name is a name that has meaning in a court of law.

Context

Typical a child or a corporation gets assigned a name at birth.

Problems

Legal names can be changed by the bearer or guardian and so cannot be relied upon to stay constant over time.

Solutions

• User Objects should have a name (key) that is assigned when the object is created, and that should never be changed unless some error has occurred.
• Any other Identifier in the User Object should be changable under the right conditions.

References

• Synonyms: Real Identifier
• Antonyms: Pseudonym