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* In ''Film/TheIsland'', the clones have a sort of mix of this. A clone's first name is the last name of his or her sponsor, which is followed by a number and code for a letter (the protagonist is "Lincoln 6 Echo") to denote what "series" of clones they're from. Notably, the antagonist keeps calling the protagonist "Six Echo," instead of "Lincoln".

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': During Oliver's stint in prison after confessing to being the Green Arrow, the guards refer to him exclusively as "Inmate 4587".

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': Rhomann Dey refers to Rocket by the serial number used by the scientists who created him.

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** This carries over into ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', where the Monarch organization refer to a mysterious MonsterInTheIce as MonsterZero, since they know nothing else about him. Naturally, he turns out to be that movie's incarnation of Ghidorah.

** The dryad planeswalker Wrynn has needed to maintain ''permanent'' bonds with trees (meanings she's more like a hamadryad) ever since her sparking left her with a constant internal burn (being in a tree controls the damage and aids in countervailing healing). While bonding with a tree [[UpliftedAnimal gives it sentience and some sapience]], it doesn't add a sense of self-naming that it didn't start with in the first place. The sequential numbers she gives them (in ''Innistrad: Midnight Hunt'', she disengages from Six to let him finally rest as an ordinary oak again, and accepts and bonds with Seven) are simply all the naming that ''the trees themselves'' personally need, and the numbering does nothing to depersonalize them for her.

* Japan, especially during the feudal era, would name their children 1st son, 2nd son, 3rd son, etc. Today Jiro is still a popular Japanese name and means simply "Second Son". The name that translates to "First Son", though popular as well, has perhaps reached a worldwide OneSteveLimit for recognition purposes thanks to the famous baseball player with that name: Ichiro.

For some reason, these implications are usually somewhat lessened when [[MyHeroZero the number in question is "zero"]]. They also don't necessarily apply to spy or superhero {{Code Name}}s that are numbers (like [[Franchise/JamesBond 007]]), unless they become part of a SecretIdentityIdentity. Having a low number (i.e. in the single digits) as a name is generally considered less humiliating than a large one. And Heaven help you if your name is [[FourIsDeath 4]], [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]], [[LOL69 69]], [[Mystical108 108]], [[FourTwentyBlazeIt 420]], [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]], or a combination of them.

* In ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'', Sir Reginald Hargreeves named the seven children he adopted to make the Umbrella Academy after numbers. It wasn't until a few years after they where born that their robot mother Grace give them actual names. Number One being Luther, Two being Diego, Three being Allison, Four being Klaus, Six being Ben, and Seven being Viktor (né Vanya). Number Five disappeared through TimeTravel before they were named, and after his return he still only goes by his number.In Season 3 when Reginald adopts a different group of seven children to form The Sparrow Academy, they receive numbers and names, One is Marcus, Two is an alternate universe counterpart of Ben, Three is Fei, Four is Alphonso, Five is Sloane, Six is Jayme and Seven is Christopher.

For some reason, these implications are usually somewhat lessened when [[MyHeroZero the number in question is "zero"]]. They also don't necessarily apply to spy or superhero {{Code Name}}s that are numbers (like [[Franchise/JamesBond 007]]), unless they become part of a SecretIdentityIdentity. Having a low number (i.e. in the single digits) as a name is generally considered less humiliating than a large one. And Heaven help you if your name is [[FourIsDeath 4]], [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]], [[LOL69 69]], [[Mystical108 108]], [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]], or a combination of them.

For some reason, these implications are usually somewhat lessened when [[MyHeroZero the number in question is "zero"]]. They also don't necessarily apply to spy or superhero {{Code Name}}s that are numbers (like [[Franchise/JamesBond 007]]), unless they become part of a SecretIdentityIdentity. Having a low number (i.e. in the single digits) as a name is generally considered less humiliating than a large one. And Heaven help you if your name is [[FourIsDeath 4]], [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]], [[Mystical108 108]], [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]], or a combination of them.

* In Russia, a digit-named boy was ignored by the authorities. While "Dolphin" and "Viagra" (WhoNamesTheirKidDude) are not typical names, they have been recognised by the Moscow registry office. However, authorities have refused to give a birth certificate to a boy whose name is simply a series of digits. In English, his name translates into [=BOHdVF260602=] (Biological Object Human Descendant of the Voronins and Frolovs 260602).

* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': The Misaka clones are numbered this way, such as the protagonist, Misaka-11111. When her psychiatrist explained that she needed a name to differentiate herself and fit in with society, she chose... 11111. When that was denied, she chose Mikoto-1. When ''that'' was denied, she chose Misaka Yui. Her psychiatrist [[StealthPun missed the bun]] ("Misaka Yui" can be translated as "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just Misaka]]") and allowed it.

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' has Shi-Long Lang ordering his subordinates to count off. They do so, counting up...then Lang subverts this trope by telling them they did it wrong and they're all supposed to count off "1", reminding them that [[AFatherToHisMen they're all "number 1" in his book]]. They do it right in a later case.

*** 1 = Ace (cards)
*** 2 = Snake ("snake eyes"; [[MeaningfulName Snake is blind]])
*** 3 = Santa (pun on the Japanese word ''san'' meaning three)
*** 4 = Clover (petals of the flower)
*** 6 = June (months)
*** 7 = Seven ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin rather obvious]])
*** 8 = Lotus (petals of the flower)
** In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'', the protagonists discover an android (called gaulems in the series) who philosophizes about how gaulems and humans aren't too different down to having "names". He uses his serial code, G-OLM, as his name because it didn't make sense for people to call him gaulem only to realize his name already sounds like it. In the Japanese version, his name is 506 ([[GoroawaseNumber pronounced as]] "go-rei-mu").

* ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': The Misaka clones are numbered this way, such as the protagonist, Misaka-11111.

* On ''Series/DarkMatter'', the amnesiac crew of the ''Raza'' adopt numbers One through Six in the pilot episode as names as a way of identifying themselves/each other, based on the order they woke up from stasis. Even after learning their given names at the end of the pilot, they choose to stick with the numbers to [[AmnesiacDissonance dissociate from their pasts]], since [[spoiler:those pasts are as hardened criminals wanted for crimes like murder, assault, piracy and kidnapping, and they [[ThatManIsDead don't want to be those people]] anymore]]. With the exception of Five, the MysteriousWaif whose reason for being among them is unclear. Unlike the five adults, she has no profile in the ship's database and doesn't even learn her former name and whether or not she has any [[spoiler:criminal past]] until later. [[spoiler:She does, technically, but merely as an orphaned truant and pickpocket who [[LittleStowaway stowed away]], making her the most innocent member of the crew]].

* In the seventh ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film, Super the penguin, upon initially meeting Weslie, decides to nickname him "0803". This is a MythologyGag referencing when the ''Pleasant Goat'' TV show originally premiered (August 3rd, 2005, or 8/03/05).

* The Cylons from ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', especially Six. Most of the others were originally introduced as if they were human, giving them a name before their model number was revealed, and are often referred to collectively as "Sharons", "Leobens" etc. whereas Sixes are "Sixes" (and are the only model that's used more than one name for various copies: Shelly, Gina, Natalie, Lida, Sonja). [[WordOfGod Ronald D. Moore]] has confirmed the name "Number Six" as another nod to ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}''. One version of Six is nicknamed "Caprica" by other Cylons, however--she was the ''No. Six'' that went to ''Caprica'' to lay the ground-work of the destruction of the Colonies. Thus, "Caprica Six".

* The Cylons from ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', especially Six. Most of the others were originally introduced as if they were human, giving them a name before their model number was revealed, and are often referred to collectively as "Sharons", "Leobens" etc. whereas Sixes are "Sixes" (and are the only model that's used more than one name for various copies: Shelly, Gina, Natalie, Lida, Sonja). [[WordOfGod Ronald D. Moore]] has confirmed Number Six as another nod to ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}''. One version of Six is nicknamed "Caprica" by other Cylons, however--she was the ''No. Six'' that went to ''Caprica'' to lay the ground-work of the destruction of the Colonies. Thus, "Caprica Six".

* In Season 4 of ''Series/BlakesSeven'', the Terran Federation has spread its empire due to GovernmentDrugEnforcement. A secret resistance video shows Federation citizens with letters and numerals stamped on their foreheads, moving listlessly up and down elevators while a soothing voice tells them, "[[CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker You are cared for. You are loved]]."

* The Stonecutters in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' refer to each other by their ranked numbers. The trope naming example was also parodied (like the rest of the series), when Homer was imprisoned on The Island during the events of "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes", which is a parody of ''Series/ThePrisoner1967''. He insisted on being a man instead of a number only until noticing the numbered pin on his shirt, after which he proceeded to mock Number Six (played by the man himself) for having a higher number.

** The clone's identification numbers also serve as an [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness out of character alert]] after [[ThePurge Order 66]] goes live, as it is accompanied by a DeathOfPersonality. For example, ARC trooper Jesse, one of the clones the aformentioned General Krell attempted to have executed for treason, exclusively refers to Commander Rex as CT-7567 after the order is given, [[{{Irony}} and attempts to execute Rex when he wont pull the trigger on Ahsoka]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' generally seems to follow the trend that it's predecessor set depicting clones that are affected by the Order 66 programming as numbers, and those who aren't by name.

* ''Fanfic/SpinelsNewBestFriend'': When Spinel introduces herself to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]], she do4G2A Cut-3YT.es the Diamond salute and refers to herself as Spinel Facet-

** In ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', player character SPARTAN-B312 is known only as Noble Six, as the sixth member of Noble Team.

** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': All the members of Colony 0 (a secret colony dedicated to black ops and subterfuge) are given numbers instead of names, raised from their birth to respond to them and nothing else. Sena starts jump-starting their character development by trying to give them actual names, starting with their leader, No. 7, whom she names "Segiri".