Topic: What is the oldest someone has lived before being given a name?

Anonymous A started this discussion 10 years ago #51,318

What is the oldest someone has lived before being given a name? Has anyone nameless gotten old enough to be able to choose their own name?
My search engine is not cooperating with the question, so I turn to you.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later[^] [v] #665,117

Ishi

He was an old man

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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 55 seconds later, 3 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #665,118

Yea that is difficult. When I run into such I go to the Straight Dope. You can see it depends on laws of places one lives.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=484983

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #665,120

@665,117 (B)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi
Thank you!

Anonymous C replied with this 10 years ago, 29 seconds later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #665,121

@665,117 (B)
Damn I should have remembered that detail about him. Even if he had a name he by culture could not have repeated it.
Ages ago I read everything I could find out about Ishi.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 29 minutes later, 35 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #665,128

@previous (C)
Is Ishi a 15 minute drive from that dead end nursing home you currently reside in?

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