When my son was born, due to religous/cultural practices we didn't name him right away. A clerk type person at the hospital kept coming by and bugging my wife for a name to put on his birth certificate. My wife was checked in under her maiden name as she had been born at the same Indian Health Service hospital and had always received health care there.

The clerk, under some sort of job requirement pressure or just in frustration finally filled out the birth certificate as "Baby Boy XXXX", the Xs being my wife's maiden name. We had that birth certificate for a number of years, 3 or 4 I'd guess and finally got around to changing it when the IRS would no longer allow me to count him as a dependent without a SS number. We have the old one, and the corrected one. I learned later that I was supposed to surrender the original one when I reapplied for the name change, but nobody asked for it.

I am not suggesting that this is in anyway similar to the Barry S. deal, but it is an example of how these things sometimes go. My son is only 18, so it's not like it was some old antiquated paperwork system.

Perhaps down the line someone with dark suspicions will make a big deal out of it. "He went by the name Baby Boy XXXX for a number of years, WHY??"

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