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* One of [[Jim Henson]]'s [[Fraggle Rock|Fraggles]], Wembley, was named this way. At an early production meeting where potential character names were being tossed around, head writer Jerry Juhl happened to glance at a newspaper article about an event at Wembley Stadium.
* Canadian Inuit typically used only a single name until the government began delivering services in the 1940s and 1950s, at which point family names and southern-originated names started coming into wider use. In some cases the family names were chosen by this method as a person (or government bureaucrat) had to think of ''something'' to put in the blank lines of documents.
** Many aboriginal people of Canada have a first name doubling as a last name. When asked for a name, they would give one (their given names); when asked for a ''last'' name, the concept was somewhat foreign. When asked for their ''father's'' name, however, they gave it - [[Patronymic|their father's ''first'' name]].
** Similar to the Inuit example, most Finnish people got surnames when the Swedes took over, most names were taken from the surroundings, and even today, most surnames are references to nature, trees, rivers, hills etc.
*** Seems unlikely since Swedish surnames do not start to come into general usage until about 500 years after the conquest of Finland. Swedish nobility does have a certain amount of this trope though, as they usually got their names based on the device they bore on their shields. (this started out as a convention used by historians to differentiate all the various people with similar names and patronymics, but was eventually formalized in the 17th century)
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