→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut How Dick Came to be Short for Richard https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt What was Wrong with Tiny Tim? https://youtu.be/dCLsLeyMCJ0?list=PLR0XuDegDqP156fo5WoNrzByZHiDO-XS_ In this video: Mononymous people, or people with a singular given name, were once the norm throughout much of the world, but are rare in modern times, particularly in the West. As such, most of our infrastructure is built to accommodate people with at least two names- invariably a first name and a surname with the occasional embarrassingly antiquated middle name in homage to some ancestor or other for good measure. Given this, what difficulties do people with only a singular given name face in a society so built to favour the duonymous and trinymous (which Google tells me aren’t actually words but I now officially declare such), and is there anything stopping polynymous people from having a name-change operation to become mononymous? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/07/people-single-name-fill-forms/ Sources: https://deedpolloffice.com/change-name/restrictions-on-names http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/home/2007-11-15-teller-at-home_N.htm http://mentalfloss.com/article/31244/full-names-26-one-name-celebrities http://www.nba.com/nuggets/news/nene_namechange_030806.html# http://www.turning-japanese.info/2014/01/mononym.html http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sukarno.aspx https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/student-record/name-change/ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-07-20/news/0207200422_1_cher-show-cherilyn-sarkisian-sonny-and-