History Main / NameFromAnotherSpecies

** A plot point in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E05Indiscretion "Indiscretion"]]. Gul Dukat tells Major Kira that out of the several prisoners on a crashed Cardassian transport, he especially wants to find Tora Ziyal. Kira recognizes the combination of a Bajoran family name and a Cardassian given name, and says as much to Dukat. Ziyal turns out to be Dukat's illegitimate daughter with his Bajoran mistress during the Occupation.

Can overlap with AerithAndBob. Often goes hand-in-hand with RaisedByWolves. Compare to MultiethnicName, which is the more mundane version.

* In ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'', ComicBook/CarolDanvers is named Ca-Rol by Gladiator, leader of the [[Franchise/XMen Shi'ar Imperial Guard]].

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Inverted by Son Goku, who is an alien (Saiyan) who was adopted by humans and given a human name. His original name is Kakkarot.
* ''Manga/RoppuKun'': Inverted with Roppu. An alien robot given a name by his new human friend, Roppei. His original name, if he has one, is unknown.

* ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter'''s Martian name is J'onn J'onzz. On Earth he goes by John Jones. His female counterpart M'gann M'orzz, a.k.a. "ComicBook/MissMartian", is addressed as Megan Morse by her human friends.
* in 'ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri', Revenge's name is normal enough. However, he chooses the alien Horde symbol for revenge for his insignia.

* Inversion: ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'' has a brief mention of a Bajoran springball player named Nas Eli. He's said to be half-human, indicating that his given name Eli is the human one of Hebrew origin.
* ''Fanfic/LegacyOfChRihan'' and related fics have Morgaiah ir'Sheratan t'Thavrau, a Romulan who frequently goes by the nickname "Morgan".
* Inverted in ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku''. Kal-El was raised by Inko and Hisashi as Izuku Midoriya. He wouldn't learn of his original name until he hunted down his spaceship again. Even with this knowledge, he still thinks of himself as Izuku first and calls himself Izuku in his inner thoughts.
* ''Fanfic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'': Thanks to being raised by Kara, Kal is addressed by his Kryptonian name by his surrogate family. He doesn't even get his human name Clark Calvin Kent until Kara moves to Starling, and even then it's specifically fabricated so he can be called by his real name with people none the wiser.

* ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'': Although [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El]] has barely used her human name since she moved to planet Rokyn, she still goes by "Linda Danvers" when she travels to Earth.

* In ''Worm''/''DC Universe'' crossover ''Fanfic/EchoesOfYesterday'', Kara Zor-El (Kryptonian) goes by Linda Danvers in order to blend in with Earth-Bet humans.

* ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'' is this as a result of being named and {{raised|ByWolves}} by apes (fictional manganis in the original novel, gorillas in the [[WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} Disney adaptation]]). The name actually means "white-skinned" in the fictional Mangani language. His real English name is John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke. In one of the later novels, Tarzan finds the lost city of Opar, whose denizens are also fluent in Mangani (their ancestors were [[{{Atlantis}} Atlanteans]] who interbred with apes).

* The title character of Music/MitchBenn's ''Literature/TerraTrilogy'' is so named when she's taken in by a Fnrr'n scientist visiting Earth, choosing the name both for [[LocationThemeNaming its significance]] and because it could be pronounced in the Fnrr language. It's a plot point that her human parents never gave her a name.

* Subverted in Creator/RobertHeinlein's novel ''Literature/BetweenPlanets''. The human boy has a human name, Don Harvey, but also has a Venusian (Venerian) name, "Mist On The Waters" given by his human mother due to her being a second generation Venus colonial.
* Literature/JohnCarterOfMars was given the name Dotar Sojat after killing two Tharks (named Dotar and Sojat, respectively) in battle.

* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''[[Literature/{{Worldwar}} Colonization]]'' trilogy, the character Kassquit is a human female born in China. However, she was raised by a male of the [[LizardFolk Race]] named Ttomalss as part of an experiment to see if [[HumansByAnyOtherName Tosevites]] can be adapted to be productive citizens of TheEmpire. Inverted with Mickey and Donald, two males of the Race raised by the Yeager family in the US from hatchlinghood, humorously named after Creator/{{Disney}} characters.
* In ''{{Literature/Animorphs}},'' Jara (son of Seerow in the bottom section) and his wife Ket give their daughter the human name [[AChildShallLeadThem Toby]], after [[DoubleConsciousness Tobias]].
** [[TortureTechnician Taylor]] uses her host's name even among other [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerks]], which points to her being [[DoubleConsciousness mentally unstable]].
** [[spoiler:The future Visser One]] and another [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerk]] wound up having twins while in the bodies of two humans. The girl twin was named Madra, after a moon of the Yeerk homeworld.
* In ''Literature/TheHost2008'', Souls are {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s who choose their own names, and often change them when they take new bodies. On the other hand, they may retain a name they took on in another host. Hence we have one Soul living in a human who calls herself "Kathy," and another who still goes by "Faces Sunward" because he was a [[PlantPeople Plant Person]] in his previous body.
* In ''Literature/TheLifeAndAdventuresOfSantaClaus,'' a human baby is found in the magical Forest of Burzee and adopted by Necile, a nymph. She calls him "Claus," which apparently means "little one" in the Burzeean language. The 2000 animated adaptation makes Claus's full name "Necileoclaus", or "Necile's little one", which is shortened to Nicolas.
* In the ''Literature/CodexAlera'', Tavi the Aleran is given the nickname "Tavar" by the leader of their Canim allies in the fifth book, ''Princeps' Fury,'' after a local creature and in part because it sounds similar to Tavi's own name for Canim ears. When we see a tavar in action later in the book, it is a very clever hunter able to survive even after the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Vord]] have made the environment much more hostile to other life, proving it a fitting nickname for GuileHero Tavi.
* All aliens in ''Literature/AlienInASmallTown'' are [[StarfishAliens nonhumanoid,]] with methods of communication totally unpronouceable by humans, so they tend to take Earth-style names when dealing with us. The main character goes by "Paul Dwightson" -- "Paul" as a Biblical reference, and "Dwightson" because his mother goes by the name Dwight (she was part of their race's FirstContact team, and by the time the humans realized she was ''female,'' she and they had already settled on the name). Other aliens take names from mythology like [[Myth/NorseMythology Heimdall]] or [[Myth/CelticMythology Nuada,]] and one insectoid physician calls himself "Doctor Cricket."
* ''Literature/{{Semiosis}}'': The {{Plant Alien|s}} that enters a symbiotic relationship with the human colonists on the planet Pax eventually takes the name Stevland in honour of one of the original colonists. It's an indication that the alien has begun to [[TookALevelInKindness care for the colonists]] and [[HumanityIsInfectious adopt some of their worldview]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': River Song received her name from the Gamma Forest tribe [[spoiler:via a close-enough translation of her birth name, Melody Pond ([[ArcWords the only water in the Forest is the river]])]].

* In ''Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords'', the player character is given the name "Deathstalker" by the Winter Wolves after helping them out several times.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': {{Inverted|Trope}} in the ExpandedUniverse universe: Go'el, a young orc boy, was given the name "[[MeaningfulName Thrall]]" by his human captors, to remind him of his captive status. Thrall kept the name even after attaining his freedom.
** Played straight with Varian Wrynn, whose story mirrors that of Thrall: He was found as an amnesiac by an orc, who made him a gladiator under the name of Croc-Bait, but his ferocity in the arena earned him the name Lo'gosh (Ghost Wolf).
* ''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight'' has Reisen Udongein Inaba. On the moon she was known simply as "Reisen"... or at least [[JapaneseRanguage something that would be approximated in Japanese phonics as Reisen]]. When she moved to Earth she started spelling her name as 鈴仙 (pronounced Reisen) and added a surname, to better blend in. Translations sometimes spell her moon name as [[PunctuationShaker "Rei'sen"]] for clarity.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the Dark Elf Brand-shei is named by the Argonians who raised him. Brand-Shei is an Argonian (the reptile race) name. You have the opportunity to comment on his unusual name, and he'll explain that he was orphaned at a young age and raised by Argonians. This starts a short quest in which you discover that his real name is Brandyl Telvanni, and that his father had believed him to be the last heir of House Telvanni.
** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'' has a similar case with Zhasim, a Khajiit raised by Orcs (born Elzhar).

* Therma in ''VideoGame/DiscworldNoir'' is [[spoiler: the childhood name of Carlotta von Uberwald, a werewolf who was raised by trolls]].

** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' also has an inverted example. Cure Earth is a NatureSpirit who is a MagicalGirlWarrior by default, but needs to take on a human guise to blend in with human society. The other girls on her team initially give her the name "Asumi", a pun on the Japanese pronunciation for "Earth", to make things easier on them. Later on, Nodoka needs to quickly come up with a surname to pass her off as a human; [[LineOfSightName seeing a set of wind chimes nearby,]] she decides upon "Fuurin" (the Japanese word for wind chimes).

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': River Song received her name from the Gamma Forest tribe [[spoiler:via a close-enough translation of her birth name, Melody Pond (the only water in the Forest is the river)]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': River Song received her name from the Gamma Forest tribe [[spoiler:via a mistranslation of her birth name, Melody Pond]].

*** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Worf's son Alexander Rozhenko, who at least looks fully Klingon even though he's [[UnevenHybrid one-quarter human]]. He chooses to keep his human name (instead of "[[IAmXSonOfY Alexander, son of Worf]]") even after joining the Klingon Defense Forces. No one bats an eye at that, only confirming that he doesn't represent any House.

Sometimes, instead of a human character named by nonhumans, the character in question is a nonhuman character named by a different species of nonhumans.