History Main / OnlyKnownByTheirNickname

** Lumpy, originally from ''[[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Pooh's Heffalump Movie]]'' and later ''My Friends Tigger & Pooh'' and a couple of other Disney ''Pooh'' works has the full name of Heffridge Trumpler Brompet Heffalump the Fourth. However, he can (almost) never remember it, so everyone just calls him "Lumpy".

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* ''Theatre/LaNona'': La Nona's real name is never disclosed, with everyone referring to her as la "nona" (which is slang for "granny") because the only other characters are her children or grandchildren.
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** Some other wrestlers are in a middle-ground where they invoke ''and'' avert this at the same time. Examples of this grouping include Wrestling/RicFlair (Ric is a common nickname for Richard while his real last name has an 'h' the ring name lacks and an 'e' that got swapped for an 'a'), Wrestling/{{Batista}} (Batista is his actual last name, minus a 'u', and his real first name Dave has been mentioned on-screen occasionally), Wrestling/TheMiz (he himself revealed in a 2010 promo that his real name is Mike Mizanin, with the Miz part allowing a contestant on a game show he appeared in to correctly identify him), plus female wrestlers Maryse and Melina (who invoke this in tandem with FirstNameBasis; their real-life last names are Mizanin (originally Ouellet) and Perez respectively).

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* Meilin Lee of ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' has multiple nicknames. Her real name is Meilin, yet her friends call her "Mei" while her family members call her "Mei-Mei." It's rare that you will hear people call her Meilin (the only one who calls her Meilin is Tyler).

* ''Radio/TrueCapitalist'': "[[CatchPhrase I am your host, the man they call Ghost.]]"

[[SisterTrope Related to]] EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep, but that is about people being referred to exclusively by their jobs or what they're best known for doing. Also related to StageNames. Does not include {{Fan Nickname}}s, {{secret identit|y}}ies or explicit pseudonyms. Also doesn't include people who [[MeaningfulRename give themselves new names following an act of self-reinvention]], and [[ThatManIsDead stop responding to their old name]] (e.g. [[Literature/HarryPotter Voldemort]]). Exceptionally badass examples of this trope fall into the RedBaron. Obvious and common contractions, e.g. someone named William introducing themselves as Bill, don't really count either.

* ''Radio/DimensionX'': In [[Recap/DimensionX41Courtesy episode forty-one]], an [[AudioAdaptation adaptation]] of Creator/CliffardDSimak's "{{Literature/Courtesy}}", Bat Ears Brady's first name is never revealed.

* In David Belasco's ''The Girl of the Golden West'', the title character is known as "the Girl" even in the play's DramatisPersonae; only very rarely is her real name, Minnie, mentioned in dialogue. The opera averts this and has her called Minnie all the time.

* ''Animation/KungFuWa'': One of Tee Yang's classmates is only known as "Gossip Boy", everyone refers to with that nickname, even ''he'' calls himself like that.

* The movie-within-a-game of ''[[Pinball/LightsCameraAction Lights... Camera... Action!]]'' names the main characters after playing card ranks — "Ace" (TheHero), "King" (BigBad), "Queen" (CampGay), "Jack" (TheDragon), and "10" (TheChick).

* In ''Podcast/InStrangeWoods'', Shane O'Connor is much more commonly referred to as "Woodsley", stemming from a nickname he got during Scouts due to a malaproper of "I'm really woodsy."