History Main / NeverGivenAName

* In ''[[VideoGame/QuiltsAndCatsOfCalico Quilts & Cats of Calico]]'', the Cat Whisperer says that ze has no gender, name, or history, and ze goes by Oomi because that's what other people call hir.

* ''VideoGame/SpartanTotalWarrior'': The protagonist, an orphan adopted by the Spartans, is only referred to as "Spartan". [[FridgeLogic Why his adoptive family never bothered to name him is never explained.]]

* ''Literature/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'': Servant Faker was never named, but she sometimes uses her brother Hephaestion's name as an alias. It is said that her king Iskandar repeatedly tried to name her, but [[NoNeedForNames she refused]].

* ''VideoGame/DeadlyRoomsOfDeath'': In the Empire, one's name and one's job are the same thing, so citizens with no job have no name. Beethro meets some of these at the beginning of The City Beneath and in The Second Sky.

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* In ''Film/{{Five}}'', Roseanne nevers gets around to naming her son--the first child born after the DepopulationBomb wiped out almost all of humanity--possibly because naming the child by herself would force her to admit that her husband is dead. As a result, the infant dies without ever recieving a name.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Father's process to create homunculi was repeated many times. Many of the candidates were raised from children without being given names by their parents.

* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', the Chimera Ant King abandoned his dying mother, the Queen, immediately after he was born; as his CharacterDevelopment went on, however, he became human enough to be bothered by his lack of a name. One of Netero's subordinates heard her name the King 'Meryem' before she died and relayed that information to Netero. He lates uses this to goad the King into a fight, offering to tell him his name if he could get Netero to admit defeat.

* In the ''Franchise/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' series, Rocket was not given a name by his creators, who merely assigned him the designation "[[YouAreNumberSix Subject 89P13]]."

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Kenpachi Zaraki had no name growing up, the district of his origin being filled with people little better than animals. After discovering Yachiru Kusajishi, a toddler who also had no name, he decided to name both of them and started his journey to the Seireitei. [[spoiler:It is eventually revealed that Yachiru was actually the spirit of Kenpachi's Zanpakuto all along, meaning her real name is Nozarashi.]]

* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': ZigZaggedTrope; While the character of Solid Snake does have a real name in the canon series of games ([[spoiler:we're told it's David]] at the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''), the non-canon games act as if they have no name at all - ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid'' makes it a major plot point that Snake doesn't have a real name, but [[spoiler:at least in the second one [[CloningBlues it's not the same Snake as in the main games]]]].

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Cecaelia traditionally don't have names and are only referred to by titles. Mr. Ocean was known as "Sick One" and other nicknames and only named himself Ocean after he met the human Solveig who told him what names mean.