Tons of immigrants at Ellis Island did not have last names, and were assigned them on the spot, or made them up on the spot. Sometimes with humorous results.

I imagine it would be extremely difficult to operate in the US without a last name. She doesn't have to adopt yours obviously, but she could pick one.

For example Osama Bin Laden. Bin is not his middle name, and Laden is not his last name. It means Osama son of Laden. But his relatives in the US use "BinLaden" as if it were a last name.

In other words, "I dislike that name, as it doesn't fit the One True Way Of Naming. Here's a Real(tm) name for you." How very nice of you /s

Or, as the article says, "39. People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎."

That's like saying, I don't like having an @ symbol in my email address, fix it, make it work the way I like it.

Sometimes you just gotta make accommodations to where you live. Having a last name for legal purposes doesn't really change anything about you.

Quite the opposite, IMNSHO: "I don't like people using + in their emails, ban that! Everyone should have an address [a-z]{3,}@[a-z]{3,}\.[a-z]{2,4} - anything else is HERESY! You gotta make accommodations, else you'll break my overly restrictive assumptions."

You mean like when you move to a country and are oppressed into having to write addresses on envelopes in the way the local postal service expects it?

If email systems were a national thing, and I'd move somewhere where they didn't accept "+" in email addresses for, say, official government communications, then .. yeah, I'd have to get a new email address.

Personally I find it much more annoying if people mispronounce my name (which happens in a personal face-to-face setting) than if I had to write my name down in a certain way on a form, to make it work with the system. It's just an identifier for the system. I wouldn't get the same SSN or phone number either--which is just about as silly to expect.

It would be nice if they had standard ways of dealing with names that do not fit in such a system, so that at least the variant to make it work would be the same everywhere else. But to demand it to be taken verbatim and work correctly in the system, that's like moving to another country and demanding you keep the same land line number.

If there was a specific postal service for each building, each with their own set of requirements, you mean. And each, of course, insists that theirs is the One True Way. Yeah, that's a nice world to live in: change yourself ten ways from Sunday to fit into various, mutually incompatible and completely arbitrary rules; all so that the original developer making the rules up on the spot would have an easier job.