Name question

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Vaguely OT, but this seemed like a pretty good place to ask. If a child is abandoned and no one knows its name, where does the name come from? You see stories about hospital personnel naming babies Angel, Precious, or whatever, but where does the child's legal name come from? Particularly its last name? Say a baby is abandoned at a hospital - it is never identified, no one ever claims it - the child can't go through life without a name. Even if they give it a first name, how would a last name be given? Also assuming the child is never adopted, lets say it stays in the foster care system until 18.

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[smasharash.livejournal.com]

Often they are named after the person who found the child.