Named and Unspecified

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Unspecified is an antonym for named.

Nearby Words: name, naming

Unspecified adjective - Known but not named.

Usage example: some unspecified person is expected to replace him temporarily as director of operations until a permanent director can be found

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Named is an antonym for unspecified.

Inverted again with the planet Castrop, as it is its rulers, the von Castrop family, are named after the place (Justified as it's part of their unspecified nobiliar title).

Source: Egopolis
And Discord used to be a pony named Endymion and was Luna's lover before some unspecified event led to him trying to take Chaos' powers and being consumed by it.

Source: Was Once a Man
Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas features a dialogue between people of intentionally unspecified gender, named Chris, Pat, and Sandy (interestingly, in the context of a discussion of the life of Alan Turing).

Source: Ambiguous Gender

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