A name formed by reversing letters of another name, often used as a pseudonym.[From Greek ana- (back) + -onym (name).]
Examples:
o Talk show host Oprah's production company is named Harpo.
o Doctor Seuss (Theodore Geisel) wrote many books under the name Theo LeSeig.
o Samuel Butler wrote a satirical novel Erewhon (near reverse of Nowhere).
"Rongis was an ananym - so named by an employee of the stagecoach company whose own name was Ali Signor."
John McPhee; Rising from the Plains; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1986.
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