History Main / NumericalThemeNaming

Note that this only applies to proper names. For one who is given a number instead of a name, see YouAreNumberSix. For a more specific sort of numerical theme naming, see OneTwoThreeFourGo, SevenIsNana and GoroawaseNumber. On albums, may overlap with SelfReferentialTrackPlacement.

** A very unusual instance among large cities is possibly UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, where most of the east-west arterial (Public Land Survey System section line) roads, both within the city and in the western and especially northern suburbs, are numbered, but with "Mile Road" suffixes, increasing as you go further north from downtown Detroit. The east-west roads closer to downtown, however, take on different naming schemes; Michigan Avenue within the city (or Ford Road in the western suburbs) takes the place of "0 Mile Road", Warren Avenue instead of "1 Mile Road", and so forth (though a 3 Mile ''Drive'', possibly unrelated to this scheme, exists on the far east side), up to and including Fenkell Avenue[[note]]Named for George Fenkell, who was Detroit Water Commissioner at the time of the road's rebranding, 1925[[/note]] and [=McNichols=] Road[[note]]Named for John [=McNichols=], President of the University of Detroit (now University of Detroit Mercy) from 1921 to his 1932 death, who was instrumental in relocating the university to its present-day location at the road's intersection with Livernois Avenue[[/note]] (which are 20th-century in-city rebrands of 5 and 6 Mile Roads), resulting in 7 and 8 Mile Roads ([[Film/EightMile yes,]] ''[[Film/EightMile that one]]'') being the only ones to retain their number within Detroit itself; and in the northern suburbs, mile roads north of 14 Mile also change from numbers in Macomb County to different names in Oakland County. Making this scheme even more perplexing, there's also some numbered "½ Mile Roads" between the main "Mile Roads", and even Detroit itself, as well as several of its suburbs, have traditionally numbered streets as well (Detroit's scheme runs perpindicular to [though does not intersect, aside from 2nd, 3rd and 12th[[note]]now Rosa Parks Boulevard[[/note]] Streets, which all intersect [=McNichols Road=]/6 Mile Road] the "Mile Roads" and does start at 1st Street [a short downtown street]).

** A very unusual instance among large cities is possibly UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, where most of the east-west arterial (Public Land Survey System section line) roads, both within the city and in the western and especially northern suburbs, are numbered, but with "Mile Road" suffixes, increasing as you go further north from downtown Detroit. The east-west roads closer to downtown, however, take on different naming schemes; Michigan Avenue within the city (or Ford Road in the western suburbs) takes the place of "0 Mile Road", Warren Avenue instead of "1 Mile Road", and so forth (though a 3 Mile ''Drive'', possibly unrelated to this scheme, exists on the far east side), up to and including Fenkell Avenue[[note]]Named for George Fenkell, who was Detroit Water Commissioner at the time of the road's rebranding, 1925[[/note]] and [=McNichols Road=][[note]]Named for John McNichols, President of the University of Detroit (now University of Detroit Mercy) from 1921 to his 1932 death, who was instrumental in relocating the university to its present-day location at the road's intersection with Livernois Avenue[[/note]] (which are 20th-century in-city rebrands of 5 and 6 Mile Roads), resulting in 7 and 8 Mile Roads ([[Film/EightMile yes,]] ''[[Film/EightMile that one]]'') being the only ones to retain their number within Detroit itself; and in the northern suburbs, mile roads north of 14 Mile also change from numbers in Macomb County to different names in Oakland County. Making this scheme even more perplexing, there's also some numbered "½ Mile Roads" between the main "Mile Roads", and even Detroit itself, as well as several of its suburbs, have traditionally numbered streets as well (Detroit's scheme runs perpindicular to [though does not intersect, aside from 2nd, 3rd and 12th[[note]]now Rosa Parks Boulevard[[/note]] Streets, which all intersect [=McNichols Road=]/6 Mile Road] the "Mile Roads" and does start at 1st Street [a short downtown street]).

** A very unusual instance among large cities is possibly UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, where most of the east-west arterial (Public Land Survey System section line) roads, both within the city and in the western and especially northern suburbs, are numbered, but with "Mile Road" suffixes, increasing as you go further north from downtown Detroit. The east-west roads closer to downtown, however, take on different naming schemes; Michigan Avenue within the city (or Ford Road in the western suburbs) takes the place of "0 Mile Road", Warren Avenue instead of "1 Mile Road", and so forth (though a 3 Mile ''Drive'', possibly unrelated to this scheme, exists on the far east side), up to and including Fenkell Avenue[[note]]Named for George Fenkell, who was Detroit Water Commissioner at the time of the road's rebranding, 1925[[/note]] (which does become 5 Mile Road in the suburbs) and [=McNichols Road=][[note]]Named for the founding president of the University of Detroit (now University of Detroit Mercy), which is still located at the road's intersection with Livernois Avenue[[/note]] (a 20th-century in-city rebrand of 6 Mile Road), resulting in 7 and 8 Mile ([[Film/EightMile yes,]] ''[[Film/EightMile that one]]'') being the only ones to retain their number within Detroit itself; and in the northern suburbs, mile roads north of 14 Mile also change from numbers in Macomb County to different names in Oakland County. Making this scheme even more perplexing, there's also some numbered "½ Mile Roads" between the main "Mile Roads", and even Detroit itself, as well as several of its suburbs, have traditionally numbered streets as well (Detroit's scheme runs perpindicular to [though does not intersect, aside from 2nd, 3rd and 12th[[note]]now Rosa Parks Boulevard[[/note]] Streets, which all intersect [=McNichols Road=]/6 Mile Road] the "Mile Roads" and does start at 1st Street [a short downtown street]).

** A very unusual instance among large cities is possibly UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, where most of the east-west arterial (Public Land Survey System section line) roads, both within the city and in the western and especially northern suburbs, are numbered, but with "Mile Road" suffixes, increasing as you go further north from downtown Detroit. The east-west roads closer to downtown, however, take on different naming schemes; Michigan Avenue within the city (or Ford Road in the western suburbs) takes the place of "0 Mile Road", Warren Avenue instead of "1 Mile Road", and so forth (though a 3 Mile ''Drive'', possibly unrelated to this scheme, exists on the far east side), up to and including Fenkell Avenue (which does become 5 Mile Road in the suburbs) and [=McNichols Road=] (a 20th-century in-city rebrand of 6 Mile Road), resulting in 7 and 8 Mile ([[Film/EightMile yes,]] ''[[Film/EightMile that one]]'') being the only ones to retain their name within Detroit itself; and in the northern suburbs, mile roads north of 14 Mile also change from numbers in Macomb County to different names in Oakland County. Making this scheme even more perplexing, there's also some numbered "½ Mile Roads" between the main "Mile Roads", and even Detroit itself, as well as several of its suburbs, have traditionally numbered streets as well (Detroit's scheme runs perpindicular to [though does not intersect, aside from 2nd, 3rd and 12th[[note]]now Rosa Parks Boulevard[[/note]] Streets, which all intersect [=McNichols Road=]/6 Mile Road] the "Mile Roads" and does start at 1st Street [a short downtown street]).

** A very unusual instance among large cities is possibly UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, where most of the east-west arterial (Public Land Survey System section line) roads, both within the city and in the western and especially northern suburbs, are numbered, but with "Mile Road" suffixes, increasing as you go further north from downtown Detroit. The east-west roads closer to downtown, however, take on different naming schemes; Michigan Avenue within the city (or Ford Road in the western suburbs) takes the place of "0 Mile Road", Warren Avenue instead of "1 Mile Road", and so forth (though a 3 Mile ''Drive'', possibly unrelated to this scheme, exists on the far east side), up to and including Fenkell Avenue (which does become 5 Mile Road in the suburbs) and [=McNichols Road=] (a 20th-century in-city rebrand of 6 Mile Road), resulting in 7 and 8 Mile ([[Film/EightMile yes,]] ''[[Film/EightMile that one]]'') being the only ones to retain their name within Detroit itself; and in the northern suburbs, mile roads north of 14 Mile also change from numbers in Macomb County to different names in Oakland County. Making this scheme even more perplexing, there's also some numbered "½ Mile Roads" between the main "Mile Roads", and even Detroit itself, as well as several of its suburbs, have traditionally numbered streets as well (Detroit's scheme runs perpindicular to [though does not intersect, aside from 2nd, 3rd and 12th[[note]]now Rosa Parks Boulevard[[/note]], which all intersect [=McNichols Road=]/6 Mile Road] the "Mile Roads" and does start at 1st Street [a short downtown street]).

** A very unusual instance among large cities is possibly UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, where most of the east-west arterial (Public Land Survey System section line) roads, both within the city and in the western and especially northern suburbs, are numbered, but with "Mile Road" suffixes, increasing as you go further north from downtown Detroit. The east-west roads closer to downtown, however, take on different naming schemes; Michigan Avenue within the city (or Ford Road in the western suburbs) takes the place of "0 Mile Road", Warren Avenue instead of "1 Mile Road", and so forth (though a 3 Mile ''Drive'', possibly unrelated to this scheme, exists on the far east side), up to and including Fenkell Avenue (which does become 5 Mile Road in the suburbs) and [=McNichols Road=] (a 20th-century in-city rebrand of 6 Mile Road), resulting in 7 and 8 Mile ([[Film/EightMile yes,]] ''[[Film/EightMile that one]]'') being the only ones to retain their name within Detroit itself; and in the northern suburbs, mile roads north of 14 Mile also change from numbers in Macomb County to different names in Oakland County. Making this scheme even more perplexing, there's also some numbered "½ Mile Roads" between the main "Mile Roads", and even Detroit itself, as well as several of its suburbs, have traditionally numbered streets as well (Detroit's scheme runs perpindicular to [though does not intersect] the "Mile Roads" and does start at 1st Street [a short downtown street]).

** A very unusual instance among large cities is possibly UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, where most of the east-west arterial (Public Land Survey System section line) roads, both within the city and in the western and especially northern suburbs, are numbered, but with "Mile Road" suffixes, increasing as you go further north from downtown Detroit. The east-west roads closer to downtown, however, take on different naming schemes; Michigan Avenue within the city (or Ford Road in the western suburbs) takes the place of "0 Mile Road", Warren Avenue instead of "1 Mile Road", and so forth (though a 3 Mile ''Drive'', possibly unrelated to this scheme, exists on the far east side), up to and including Fenkell Avenue (which does become 5 Mile Road in the suburbs) and [=McNichols Road=] (a 20th-century in-city rebrand of 6 Mile Road), resulting in 7 and 8 Mile ([[Film/EightMile yes,]] ''[[Film/EightMile that one]]'') being the only ones to retain their name within Detroit itself; and mile roads north of 14 Mile also change form numbers in Macomb County to different names in Oakland County. Making this scheme even more perplexing, there's also some numbered "½ Mile Roads" between the main "Mile Roads", and even Detroit itself, as well as several of its suburbs, have traditionally numbered streets as well (Detroit's scheme runs perpindicular to [though does not intersect] the "Mile Roads" and does start at 1st Street [a short downtown street]).

** A very unusual instance among large cities is possibly UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, where most of the east-west arterial (Public Land Survey System section line) roads, both within the city and in the western and especially northern suburbs, are numbered, but with "Mile Road" suffixes, increasing as you go further north from downtown Detroit. The east-west roads closer to downtown, however, take on different naming schemes; Michigan Avenue within the city (or Ford Road in the western suburbs) takes the place of "0 Mile Road", Warren Avenue instead of "1 Mile Road", and so forth (though a 3 Mile ''Drive'', possibly unrelated to this scheme, exists on the far east side), up to and including Fenkell Avenue (which does become 5 Mile Road in the suburbs) and [=McNichols Road=] (a 20th-century in-city rebrand of 6 Mile Road), resulting in 7 and 8 Mile ([[Film/EightMile yes,]] ''[[Film/EightMile that one]]'') being the only ones to retain their name within Detroit itself; and mile roads north of 14 Mile also change form numbers in Macomb County to different names in Oakland County. Making this scheme even more perplexing, there's also some numbered "½ Mile Roads" between the main "Mile Roads", and even Detroit itself, as well as several of its suburbs, have traditionally numbered streets as well (Detroit's scheme runs perpindicular (though does not intersect) the "Mile Roads" and does start at 1st Street [a short downtown street]).

** A very unusual instance among large cities is possibly UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, where most of the east-west arterial (Public Land Survey System section line) roads, both within the city and in the western and especially northern suburbs, are numbered, but with "Mile Road" suffixes, increasing as you go further north from downtown Detroit. The east-west roads closer to downtown, however, take on different naming schemes; Michigan Avenue within the city (or Ford Road in the western suburbs) takes the place of "0 Mile Road", Warren Avenue instead of "1 Mile Road", and so forth (though a 3 Mile ''Drive'', possibly unrelated to theis scheme, exists on the far east side), up to and including Fenkell Avenue (which does become 5 Mile Road in the suburbs) and [=McNichols Road=] (a 20th-century in-city rebrand of 6 Mile Road), resulting in 7 and 8 Mile ([[Film/EightMile yes,]] ''[[Film/EightMile that one]]'') being the only ones to retain their name within Detroit itself; and mile roads north of 14 Mile also change form numbers in Macomb County to different names in Oakland County. Making this scheme even more perplexing, there's also some numbered "½ Mile Roads" between the main "Mile Roads", and even Detroit itself, as well as several of its suburbs, have traditionally numbered streets as well (Detroit's scheme runs perpindicular (though does not intersect) the "Mile Roads" and does start at 1st Street [a short downtown street]).

* "VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV": In the post-patch content of the Endwalker expansion, [[spoiler: after entering the Thirteenth, the Scions meet a voidsent that acted as [[BigBad Zenos Viator Galvus's]] spirit partner for reaping. Given that she is free now, and has no name after centuries of not needing one, the Scions elect to name her "Zero" to both represent her emptiness from the Void and the start of a new beginning.]]

* In ''Videogame/{{Earthbound}}'', the towns are named Onett, Twoson, Threed, and Fourside. Likely unintentional, but adding those four numbers together gives you 10, which is funny considering that the game was on the Super Nin'''ten'''do.

* ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'': The Misaka clones are almost exclusively referred to by [[YouAreNumberSix model number]]. However, when Mikoto introduces 10032 to Kongou as her little sister, and 10032 introduces herself by her number, Kongou assumes this is literally her name. "That's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it?" Number names are common in Japanese culture, as seen elsewhere on this page (in real life, "Ichigo" is a very common boy's name, and it literally means "first son"), though having a number ''that high'' would be bizarre. Kongou suggests the nickname "Icchan" ("one"), which 10032 jumps on surprisingly quickly.

* Within the crew of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', the characters' names each hold a different number of letters from one to five. Spike, Faye, Jet, Ed, and Ein means 'one' in German.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Takeshi's ([[DubNameChange Brock]]) younger siblings all follow numerical theme naming from Jirou (the second eldest) down to Touko (the ''tenth'' child), this is effectively tossed out in the dub where there's no real theme to their naming at all.

* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': Each Spirit has the kanji for a number in either her first or last name. [[spoiler:So do Shido, Reine and Mio.]]

* In ''LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'', there's the Takanashi sisters Rikka (six flowers) and Touka (ten flowers).

* A minor character in ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'' is modeled after Snow White, with the seven dwarfs represented by her seven younger siblings, all with this naming convention.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' has Miyo Takano and Professor Hifumi Takano. Hifumi can be written as 一二三 (123), Miyo can be 三四 (34), which continues the sequence. Would be a stretch, except that it's pointed out in the anime when the two characters first.