misname

Noun

misname (plural misnames)

1. A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious name or designation; misnomer.
   • Like the name Macon Dead, it is a misname imposed by someone with no concern about the consequences.1994, Marilyn Sanders Mobley, Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni ...
   • And it was a misname, because the woman who stood before him now in all her naked glory presented a picture beauteous beyond belief—to Vagn, leastways.2010, Sandra Hill, A Tale of Two Vikings

Verb

IPA/mɪsˈneɪm/

misname (third-person singular simple present misnames, present participle misnaming, simple past and past participle misnamed)

1. (transitive) To call by a wrong name.
   • Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.1990, Library Journal, page 9

   Synonyms:

   miscall, misnomer

2. (transitive) To give an unsuitable or injurious name to; name incorrectly.
   • Near-synonym: misnomer
   • Elsewhere is pain in looking back on the blotted page misnamed Experience.1860 September, J. W. E., “Our Autumnal Haunts in Leicestershire”, in Macphail’s Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal and Literary Review, volume XXX, number CLXXVII, Edinburgh: Myles Macphail, […]...

   Synonyms:

   misnomer