History Main / EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep

** In a skit of Zodd and Phil of ''BerserkAbridged'', when Zodd is asking the barkeep to change the T.V. to G4, he takes offense to the fact that everyone calls him Barkeep.

* The children in {{The Fire-us Trilogy}} had their brains rather scrambled by trauma and forgot their real names. Some of them chose names that fit the roles they took after the virus. Hunter "hunts" for supplies to scavenge from houses and stores. Teacher gives the younger children lessons on the world before the virus, and Mommy takes care of them.

-->-- ''from the pilot episode of '''Series/{{Cheers}}''', 1982''

* The two main characters of CormacMcCarthy's ''TheRoad'' are only ever refered to as the Man and the Boy.

* In ''YesMinister'', the Prime Minister is only referred to by his title. Extraordinarally, this is kept up when Hacker gets promoted into ''YesPrimeMinister'': he only gets referred to as "His/Your/My Predecessor".

* In "GodSaveTheEsteem," Quinn is shocked to discover that a member of her gang whom everyone calls "[[ReallyGetsAround Slutty Girl]]" actually has a name ([[NamedByTheAdaptation Jackie Wentworth]]).

* In ''{{Saiyuki}}'', 'Sanzo' is technically the name of the priestly order appointed bearers of the Sutras from the Dawn of Time, not the given name of one of the main characters. His Buddhist dynastic name, the closest thing he has to a first name, is "Genjyo" but it's rarely used except as part of his title or to distinguish him from other past or present members of the Sanzo priesthood (i.e., Koumyou or Ukoku). Goku was the first person to use "Sanzo" as if it were a personal name instead of a rank, because that was the only part of Sanzo's long-ass full title he could easily remember. Hakkai and Gojyo later picked up on this habit of Goku's when they met Sanzo.

** The ExpandedUniverse reveals that many high-ranking Forerunners are only known by their titles; the two main examples would be the Librarian and the Didact.

* The voiced dialogue in both ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' only refer to the protagonists as "Leader", "Partner", or "Senpai". ''Persona 3'''s MC is named "Minato Arisato" in the manga and "Makoto Yuuki" in the movie, and ''Persona 4'''s MC is "Souji Seta" in the manga and "Yu Narukami" in the [[Anime/{{Persona 4}} anime]].

* The voiced dialogue in both ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' only refer to the protagonists as "Leader", "Partner", or "Senpai". ''Persona 3'''s MC is named "Minato Arisato" in the manga and "Makoto Yuuki" in the movie, and ''Persona 4'''s MC is "Souji Seta" in the manga and "Yu Narukami" in the [[anime Anime/{{Persona 4}}]].

* The protagonists of both {{Persona3}}' and {{Persona4}} are only referred to as "Leader" by other characters in the game. Persona 3's MC gets the name Minato Arisato from the manga adaptation and Persona 4's anime gives the MC the name Yu Narukami.

* ''Ayumu Kasuga'' from ''AzumangaDaioh'' is only ever referred to as "Osaka," and the tradition of calling her as such even started at the beginning of the series. It would seem that everyone (except Ayumu herself, of course) has forgotten her real name by the start of the second school year, as she is listed in Miss Yukari's class as "Osaka" only.

* In ''{{Shogun}}'', only the ruling class have actual names: everyone else is called things like "Old Gardener" (except prostitutes who take the names of flowers.) The protagonist ends up being called Anjin-san, which is a polite way to refer to his job as Pilot of a ship.

* The Mayor in the ''[[LazyTown Latibær]]'' plays is just called "Bæjarstjórinn" which means "The Mayor", "the" and all.

** Android 17 and Android 18 were once human, but their real names are never revealed.

* ''[[Anime/TheIdolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - The Producer

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' most of the Kages are only addressed by their title preceeded by their place, and it's often shorten to the place (e.g. Third Hokage, shortened to "The Third"), though Tsunade is still called by name occasionally. We eventually find out what the other four Hokage's names were, in order [[spoiler:Hashirama Senju]], [[spoiler:Tobirama Senju]] (both sort of a spoiler), Hiruzen Sarutobi (who's family name was referred to by Orochimaru, but his given named wasn't revealed until the release of [[AllThereInTheManual a databook]] that came out nearly ''a decade'' after the series started and isn't used in series until even later), and [[spoiler:Minato Namikaze.]]
** Almost every ninja in Naruto refers to the Kage of their village or another village by their title. even Kages refer to each other this way.
** This also holds true to the tailed beasts. Everyone refers to them by the number of their tails (Ex: Naruto's tailed beast is the Kyuubi), the sole exception to this is Gaara's tailed beast, introduced in the first season as Shukaku. It turns out that all tailed beasts have names, all of them just recently revealed. The only tailed beast that still adheres to this trope is the Jubi or the ten tail.

* In the original ''StarWars'' trilogy, TheEmperor was never named (although the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse and later the prequel trilogy would specify his name as being "Palpatine.", as well as his Sith name "Darth Sidious".)

* Used in a significant manner in ''VForVendetta''. The Head is only referred to by title for the bulk of the story... [[spoiler: but people start referring to him by his actual name once his VillainousBreakdown causes a loss of faith in him.]]

** Gandalf revealed his real name (Olorin) to very few people in Middle-earth, so he's mostly known by the the descriptive names he's been given in various languages: Mithrandir ("Grey Wanderer"), Gandalf ("Wand Elf"), and so on. At a few points, people who're asked whether they know Gandalf say that they don't know his real name, and just call him what everybody else does.

** In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', neither the Elvenking or the Master of Lake-Town are named.[[note]]Fortunately, since ''The Hobbit'' wasn't written to be part of Middle-earth, and the use of real Norse names for the dwarves necessitated a complicated scheme in ''The Lord of the Rings'' in which dwarves never reveal their real Dwarvish names to outsiders, instead [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname adopting "outer names"]] in nearby human tongues, which were ''themselves'' "[[TranslationConvention translated]]" by Tolkien into Old Norse. Imagine if the human and elf characters had to receive the same treatment![[/note]] In ''The Lord of the Rings'' the former's name is revealed to be Thranduil.