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For centuries, the name John Doe has been used in the legal system as a stand-in for the real name of a defendant or witness who sought to protect his identity. You'll see it in the name of legal cases, like "United States versus John Doe," etc. In North America, it is also used when the identity of a corpse or hospital patient is unknown. It has more recently started being used as a generic name in various circumstances.

In the Spanish world, Fulano de Tal.In Finland, N.N. (from Latin nomen nescio, “I don’t know the name”) is used for anonymous legal parties. Otherwise, the expression tavallinen Virtanen is used (“an ordinary Virtanen” - Virtanen being the second most common surnames in Finland; recently, Korhonen became more common, but it is not used as a metaphor for the common man). Matti ja Maija - “Matthew and Mary” - is another expression for the common man and woman. With them, you often use the “surname” Meikäläinen. It actually means “one of us, one of our people” (and colloquially “I”, cf. German unsereiner) but as it ends in -nen, it sounds like a surname.In the German-speaking culture, I have seen both Lieschen Müller (Lieschen = “Lizzy”, Müller being obviously the stereotypical German name) and Otto Normalverbraucher “Otto the Normal Consumer”.In Irish, there is Seán Ó Rudaí - “Seán O’Thingy”. And in English-speaking Ireland, the expression is Seán Citizen.

Alright, so origin of the term John/Jane Doe has its roots in the old and strange vanished British legal proceedings called action of ejectment. Under the old English common law, the actions landlords could take against squatters or defaulters were way to technical and difficult to understand, and hardly of any use. Therefore the landlord would bring on an action of ejectment, on the fictitious person who allegedly evicted or ousted him. And therefore in order to establish the rights of the fictitious, the court would have to first establish that the landlord was the original owner of the property, therefore fulfilling the landlords underlying intention for filling the action, without him having to jump the legal hoops.Frequently landlords used the names John Doe (Plaintiff), and Richard Roe(Defendant), though the origins of use of these names couldn't be traced, also the names don't have any particular relevance, and might be that these were the most common name in Britain during the era, and also the surnames. Or they might have been the original names of people the Landlord knew, could be anything.Whatever their ultimate origin maybe, these names eventually became standard placeholders for unidentified, anonymous or hypothetical parties to a court case. Most U.S. jurisdictions continue to use John Doe and his female counterpart, Jane, as placeholder names, and will bring in Roe if two anonymous or unknown parties are involved in the same case. Sometimes, the federal courts skip Doe and go right to Roe for anonymous plaintiffs The Feds use these placeholders, too, perhaps most famously in Roe v. Wade.