misname
verb/mɪsˈneɪm/
Etymology From mis- + name.
1
To call by a wrong name.
- Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.1990, Library Journal, page 9:
2
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, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., published October 1860 (number), 1861, section V (The Bridge across the Soar), page 140:
1 more example
- The Intelligence Office proved to be as much misnamed as those institutions usually are, and varying degrees of unintelligence were shown in the candidates offered for the position of cook at Boxley Hall; […]1904, Carolyn Wells, “Servants”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, pages 69–70:
- Derived terms
- misnamer
- Related terms
- give a bad name