misonomy

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ -onomy.

Noun

misonomy (uncountable)

1. The phenomenon of being misnamed.
   • 2001, David Salsburg, The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century, Henry Holt and Company, page 16:

     "All of this is an example of what Stephen Stigler, a contemporary historian of science, calls the law of misonomy, that nothing in mathematics is ever named after the person who discovered it.