diff --git a/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/SymbolPathParser.java b/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/SymbolPathParser.java
index 17b855a6a4..ede72c9508 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/SymbolPathParser.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/SymbolPathParser.java
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ import ghidra.program.model.symbol.Namespace;
  */
 public class SymbolPathParser {
 
+	private static String ANONYMOUS_NAMESPACE = "(anonymous_namespace)";
+
 	/**
 	 * Parses a String pathname into its constituent namespace and name components.
 	 * The list does not contain the global namespace, which is implied, but then
@@ -45,11 +47,8 @@ public class SymbolPathParser {
 			throw new IllegalArgumentException(
 				"Symbol list must contain at least one symbol name!");
 		}
-//		if (name.indexOf(Namespace.DELIMITER) == -1) {
-		// following is temporary kludge due to struct (blah).  TODO: figure/fix
-		// This particular test for starting with the open parenthesis is to work around a type
-		// seen in "Rust."
-		if (name.startsWith("(") || name.indexOf(Namespace.DELIMITER) == -1) {
+
+		if (skipParsing(name)) {
 			List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
 			list.add(name);
 			return list;
@@ -57,6 +56,22 @@ public class SymbolPathParser {
 		return naiveParse(name);
 	}
 
+	private static boolean skipParsing(String name) {
+
+		//	if (name.indexOf(Namespace.DELIMITER) == -1) {
+		// following is temporary kludge due to struct (blah).  TODO: figure/fix
+		// This particular test for starting with the open parenthesis is to work around a type
+		// seen in "Rust."
+		if (name.startsWith("(")) {
+			// anonymous namespace is a gnu c++ construct.  We do not have any way of modeling
+			// this yet, but still wish not to lose this information, so we do not strip it out of
+			// the name when parsing gnu demangled symbols.
+			return !name.startsWith(ANONYMOUS_NAMESPACE);
+		}
+
+		return !name.contains(Namespace.DELIMITER);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Naive parsing that assumes evenly matched angle brackets (templates) with no operator
 	 * overloading that contains these and no other rule breakers.