No Name Given

aka: Man With No Name

Unlike most examples here, this guy does have a name. Not that it's in his vocabulary. His name is actually Karako Pierot.

Larry: Oh golly... uh, what's your name?
Scallion #1: They've never given me a name. I've been around since show one and I still don't have a name!

— VeggieTales, "Lyle the Kindly Viking"

By the numbers, the majority of characters will not have a name within the work, because they lack Nominal Importance. One way to play with audience expectations, however, is to present characters and instead of addressing them by their personal name, they're called by their title, nickname, or in vague terms. The more important this character is to the plot, the more unusual it is to lack a name. The Bit Character and Spear Carrier may not have their names mentioned, but they are straight examples of Nominal Importance.

It is important to note that this character presumably does have a name, which just never comes up within the work. Credits and additional publications may show the character's name, without the name ever being mentioned during the work. Again, this is only tropeworthy with characters that impact the story, such as the Supporting Protagonist or the Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.

While characters may Lampshade the unusual relationship, a direct confrontation on the character's lack of a name is usually a different trope. In No Name Given, the audience must assume that off-camera the characters are aware of each other's names, and it is pure coincidence that everyone else is on, at best, Last-Name Basis with this character.

This is a subtrope to The Nameless, because the character (apparently) lacks a name. It is supertrope to Unnamed Parent (the unnamed characters are specifically parents to a younger main character) and Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" (the character is only identified by a descriptive moniker). Compare His Name Really Is "Barkeep" in case the character's name was being used all along.

If we eventually do find out their name, that's the Given Name Reveal.

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Other examples:

Advertising

• Claude the Cat: The only named character is Claude. Even his owner's name is unknown.
• The Dairy Queen Lips were never given a proper name.
• In the "Dear Kitten" ads produced by BuzzFeed Video and Friskies, neither the feline narrator nor the aforementioned kitten gets a name.

Arts

• Venus de Milo: While the artist's name —Alexandros of Antioch— was confirmed via a signature on its plinth, the actual identity of the figure is a mystery. Most have settled on it being a depiction of Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love, some scholars believe that she is actually supposed to be Amphitrite, Goddess of the Seas and wife of Poseidon.

Audio Plays

• Adventures in a Pocket Universe series from BBV Productions: One of the two main characters is never named. The other main character, her robot sidekick, addresses her as "Mistress". The fact she's played by Lalla Ward, the robot sidekick is K-9 (who, like many Doctor Who robots and monsters, can be licenced directly from his creators), and the pocket universe is called Ecto-Space may lead some listeners to conclusions about what her name might be, but it officially isn't that, because BBV didn't have the rights to use that character.
• The protagonists of Yandere no Onna no Ko are never named. They may share the same surnames as some of their relatives (Nagisa, Yumemi, Alice and Elise), but that would the closest things you would have to a surname. One character calls him "Elison", but that's because she's delusional and is convinced that they were lovers in another life.
• The protagonists of Yandere Heaven don't have a first or a last name. The Yandere brothers tend to provide sibling terms in place of a name.

Asian Animation

• In 4 Angies, the principle of Angel Elementary School is never identified by name.

Eastern European Animation

• I'll Return as the Rain: The girl in the short is never named.
• The Goat Musician: None of the all-animal cast have names.
• The Hungarian epic Heroic Times was released in two forms; internationally with no dialogue and just a musical score and domestically with a first person narrator. Neither version names any of the characters. The film was adapted from the 19th century Epic Poem Toldi, likely with the assumption that viewers would already be familiar with the story and characters or that the visuals and score alone would be enough to tell the story.
• The Key: The bratty boy who eventually learns to do things for himself has no given name, in contrast to the boy's parents, his grandfather, the scientist, and even a little Robot Girl, whom all have names.
• In Son of the White Horse, only the main character Fanyűvő (Treeshaker) and his brothers Kőmorzsoló (Stonecrumbler) and Vasgyúró (Irontemperer) get names. Everyone else just has to make do with nouns, although Fanyűvő does give the Hétszűnyű Kapanyányimonyók gnome an Affectionate Nickname: "Monyók" or "Testicles".

Fairy Tales

• In "The Cat on the Dovrefell", the traveler never reveals his name.
• In "The Death of Koschei the Deathless", the names of Prince Ivan's brothers-in-law are never revealed.
• "The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs": Unless you count "the Devil", no character is referred to by name.
• In "The Frost, the Sun, and the Wind", the traveler who the story focuses on is not identified by name.
• "Good Day, Fellow! Axe Handle!": The ferryman's wife, sons and daughter, who cause a whole mess, remain nameless.
• "Maid Maleen": The titular princess is the only character who is given a name.
• In "Morozko", the characters are known as the old woman, her husband, her stepdaughter and her daughter. The titular Father Frost is the only character who is given a name.
• "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples": Neither of the characters -the king, the young prince, his brothers, the empress, the old witch, the old servant...- are given names.
• In "Prince Ivan, the Witch Baby, and the Little Sister of the Sun", Prince Ivan's parents, the groom, the witch, the two seamstresses are known as... the king, the queen, the groom, the witch and the two seamstresses.
• In "Prince Lindworm", all the characters -the prince, his brother, their parents, the good witch, the shepherd's daughter- are nameless.
• In "The Wise Little Girl": No character is given a name. They are the rich brother, the poor brother, the Tsar, the little girl...
• "The Nix in the Mill-Pond": All characters are unnamed.
• "Little Otik": Readers never learn Otik's parents' names.
• "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes": Neither the abusive mother nor the kind-hearted knight are named in the tale.
• In Franz Xaver von Schönwerth's "The Three Flowers", neither Katie's brothers, nor her stalker, nor her husband, nor her husband's family, nor the wood sprite are referred to by name.
• In "The Three Little Men in the Wood", none of the characters are referred to by name.
• "Jorinde and Joringel": The witch is the only important character who is never identified by name.
• "The Soldier And Death": The only characters who could be considered named are Death and God Himself.
• "Little Master Misery": The main character is given a name and even a family name -Ivan Ilyitch-, but his rich brother remains unnamed.
• "Follow Me, Jodel!": Readers never learn the name of the maiden who Jodel turns back into human and gets married to.

Films — Animated

• In An American Tail, Fievel's parents are only ever referred to as "Mama" and "Papa" Mousekewitz. Papa's name is revealed in Fievel's American Tails, but Mama's is still not given.
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: Despite being in the title of the film, the word "Phantasm" is never used and leaves the masked vigilante at the center of the plot nameless.
• In Beauty and the Beast, it's never revealed what the Beast's name is. The fandom went and named him Adam anyway, which Dan Stevens (who portrayed the Beast in the 2017 remake) and Paige O'Hara (Belle's voice actress) have also accepted. Contrary to popular beliefs, that name is not from the film's creators, but rather from a trivia video game. Most Disney products keep him nameless, though a small number have used the fans' name.
• Bolt has several examples: the director of the Bolt TV show, Bolt's owner (who plays a character named Penny on the show, but isn't addressed by name off-stage), her mom, her agent, and so on.
• In The Book of Life, none of the Detention Kids are given names except Sasha, but in the supplementary material everyone but "Goth-kid" is given a name.
• In The Boss Baby franchise, the Triplets are never addressed by their individual names.
• The Queen in A Bug's Life.
• The Cat Piano: No one in the short is given a name. The white female cat singer is seen on a poster that calls her "Le Chat Blanc", although that's almost certainly her stage name and not her real one.
• Epic (2013) has Finn, the Leafman with the orange beard. His name is only in the closing credits.
• An Extremely Goofy Movie has "Beret Girl". One of the few original characters in the movie who appear at the dancing scene in the credits and the girlfriend of one of the main characters, the movie proves extremely shy about telling us what her name is. Even the credits list her as "Beret Girl".
• How to Catch a Cold: The only characters with names are Common Sense and, in the live-action version, Goofy and Jeff. Everyone else is unnamed.
• The Mayor from The Nightmare Before Christmas (though some of the merch calls him Hizzonor). Most of the citizens also seem to not have names (The Clown With The-Tear-Away-Face, The Wolf Man, etc.).
• No one is named in The Old Lady and the Pigeons save a few of the American tourists.
• Agent Classified from Penguins of Madagascar. He tells Skipper that his real name is classified, but Skipper takes it literally and calls him Classified for the rest of the film.
• In The Polar Express, the main character goes on the train and makes friends with three other kids; of the group, only one is named, and even then only at a plot-crucial moment more than halfway through the movie. (It's the lonely boy, Billy.) The credits refer to the others as Hero Boy, Hero Girl and Know-It-All Kid. Meanwhile Hero Boy's little sister, Sarah, gets a name despite only appearing in two scenes at the beginning and end. Hero Boy, Hero Girl, and Know-it-All Kid do actually have canon names in supplementary material (Chris, Holly, and Lenny respectively), but you wouldn't know it from just watching the film.
• While he is called "The Big Bad Wolf" for various advertising in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,^note Despite there already being a Big Bad Wolf in the Shrek films. he is never referred to that name in the movie itself, just called "the wolf" or "lobo". He is actually Death himself.
• In Rio 2, the leader of the loggers razing the Amazon, Big Boss, is only ever referred to as "Mr. Big".
• Jack Frost's sister in Rise of the Guardians is never named. This led to a lot of confusion within the fandom, because her actress also voiced another character named Pippa, who isn't named on-screen, so some viewers accidentally assigned the name to the wrong character.
• In Disney's Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora's father is named King Stefan, but her mother is never called anything but "the Queen". Some children's books published about the movie give her the name "Leah", which many fans have adopted. Weirdly, she doesn't even get listed in the credits of the film at all. In fact, there is still no clear records of the name of the actress who provided her voice, making her a really nameless entity, though some people may have speculated that Flora's voice actress for the film, Verna Felton, might have allegedly voiced Leah as well. Similarly, the unnamed herald’s name is never called anything but the "herald". But in his real appearance in Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, the character in that film is given the name of "Duke" or "The Duke" in the credits. Like Leah, there have been almost no records of the name of the actor who provided the herald’s voice in the original as a result of Hans Conried (performance model and original choice of King Stefan) being replaced by Taylor Holmes as the voice of King Stefan for no valid reason, though it may be assumed that the herald’s voice and accent is sorta like Conried’s in a bit higher pitch. Still, the truth would never be revealed about the herald’s voice and unanswered questions would grow and still plague the herald’s voice mystery in the wake of Conried’s own replacement by Holmes as Stefan. Similarly, the unnamed Minstrel is not named or credited either. On the other hand, the name of Maleficent’s pet raven is not named in the film, though the name “Diablo” is used by Disney Fans.
• In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Huntsman, the Queen, and the Prince do not have names. However, old press material lists the Queen's name as Queen Grimhilde and merchandise released over seventy years later finally gives the Prince's name as Florian.
  • In the original story (the one Disney used to create his story), there were 100 dwarves, and none of them were given a name.
  • The doll of Snow White's prince that can be bought at the Disney store is labeled "the Prince," Cinderella's is labeled "Prince Charming," and Belle's is labeled "Beast."
• The Bog King from Strange Magic never has his name revealed. Presumably he's not actually named Bog King.
• In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the Penguin King and the Koopa General are only ever referred to by their jobs in the credits, with no actual names specified.
• In Turning Red, the girl that Priya dances with is only known as the goth girl.
• Wreck-It Ralph: The planet where Hero's Duty takes place. The intro even says "On a planet with no name...".

Manhwa

• All the Arc Dragons in Ciel ~The Last Autumn Story~ are referred to by names given to them by humans. Except the misanthropic Earth Dragon, who has such a name, but only tells his name to people he kills.
  • The recurring bandit also goes without a name, though in his case it's just that it never comes up.

Mythology and Religion

• The last chapter of the book of Ruth features a redeemer who's called the Hebrew equivalent of "So and So". This is a literary tool used in response to his refusal to redeem lest it ruin his inheritance, thereby not retaining the name of his childless deceased relative.

Music

• The main character of The Black Parade is never named in the album itself, and elsewhere is known only as "the Patient".
• Very few of the characters in the Ayreon albums have names; most go by descriptions like "Best Friend" or "the Knight."
• An animal variant is "A Horse With No Name" by the band America.
• The members of TISM performed in balaclavas and went by pseudonyms such as Ron Hitler-Barassi. Most of their real names are still unknown.
• The mayor, the sailor man, and the narrator in The Silent City. Justified in the narrator's case since no one officially addresses her. Taken to absurd levels with the mayor due to an exchange where he could reasonably expected to give his name and doesn't:
  Stan: And who are you?
  The Mayor: I'm the mayor!
• Sally Shapiro's real name is so far a mystery, due to her being a Reclusive Artist.
• GaMetal's creator has the stagename Jonny Atma, but his real last name is unknown. He described it in an interview as 'Long, German, and very unsexy', though.
• The narrator in Danzig's "Thirteen"
  "I was born in the soul of misery
  And I never had me a name
  They just give me a number when I was young"
• The Beatles "Nowhere Man"
  "He's a real Nowhere Man."
  "Sitting in his Nowhere Land."
  "Making all his Nowhere Plans, for nobody."
• In Barry Louis Polisar's "I've Got A Dog And My Dog's Name Is Cat", the narrator has five pets, but while his dog, cat, fish and bird are given A Dog Named "Cat" treatment, his pet goose is never referred by name.
  Now my fish Bird is in my fish tank
  Next to my pet goose who goes "Hank, hank"
  But listen to me, and just hear this
  I got a bird and I call him Fish
• On Taylor Swift's album folklore (2020), there are three songs from each person in a Love Triangle's perspective. Betty and James are named but the girl James had a fling with isn't.
• Nautilus Pompilius: A lot of characters of the songs referred to just "he", "she" or "they". But the song called "The Person with no Name" need to be separately noted.
• The bass player for punk band The Dwarves is a man in a luchador mask, boots, and speedo (or nothing else if local regulations will let him get away with it) known only as "HeWhoMustNotBeNamed" (yes, it's officially spelled without spaces).

Pinball

• Done in Bally's Playboy pinball, which identified its Playmates simply as "Miss ________" ("Miss January", "Miss September", etc.). Also done in Stern Pinball's Playboy, which shows photos of Real Life Playmates, but only identifies them as "Miss January," etc.^note They're the 1999 Playmate roster, for the curious.
• In America's Most Haunted, none of the ghost hunters are given any names in-game.
• Ultimately subverted in Strange Science; the Mad Scientist antagonist is never named directly, but a small nametag on his lab coat identifies him as "Dr. E. Shock".
• Lights... Camera... Action!, a Pinball game themed around filming an action movie, the name of the film and the names of the stars are never given. The film's main characters are also never properly named, and are only identified by their playing card-based nicknames.

Podcasts

• The narrator of Gospels of the Flood is never named.
• Mystery Show:
  • A woman in episode four is referred to only by the alias "Margaret," presumably to protect her identity.
  • In episode three, Starlee finds a blog called Sated Epicure and refers to the blogger only as "Sated."
• Mark Soloff's character in Unwell Podcast, the Old Man with the monster-dogs, is left unnamed until the season 2 finale, often credited simply with garbled radio noises.

Radio

• Ford Prefect is a name picked by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) researcher due to a misunderstanding about Earth. In the books it's revealed he never learnt to pronounce his own name (his father was the Last of His Kind following the Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Betelgeuse VII and named his son in the now extinct Praxibetel dialect), and the kids at school called him Ix (meaning "Boy who is unable to explain what a Hrung is, or why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse VII").
  • The misunderstanding was explained more fully in the movie by showing Ford walking out into the middle of a street and attempting to greet a car, thinking it was the dominant species on Earth. This was a joke that some fans understood without needing the explanation, as Ford Prefects are a kind of car sold in the U.K., Australia, Argentina and Canada. American fans tended not to get the joke, since Ford Prefects were never sold in the U.S.
  • Another character attempts to use this trope. When Arthur asks his name, he says "My name is not important." After some cajoling, he gives Arthur his name.
    Arthur: Slartibartfast?
    Slartibartfast: I told you it wasn't important.
    • Word of God is that Douglas Adams did this as a way of teasing the BBC typist. She was typing out this ridiculous name every time he spoke, and the name never actually occurred in dialogue in his first episode, so he could just as easily have been "Old Man."
• Journey into Space:
  • In the original series, the frequently heard Control operator's name is never stated.
  • In The Red Planet, the dingo hunter and the flying doctor are not named.
• In the Believe It episode "Party", a recurrent theme is that Richard Wilson (and Jos Vantyler, and David Tennant) all despise a certain actor, much-married, recently knighted, and apparently slept with Arabella Weir and Ian McKellen, but who Richard only ever calls "Golden Boy", explaining that he wants to keep working. On the one occasion he does have to use Golden Boy's name, it's bleeped out.

Toys

• BIONICLE's Big Bad was known as "the Makuta" for most of the line's run, which the fans originally thought was his actual name, until it was revealed to be the name of his species. Eight years into the story, the writer named him Teridax, which caused such a massive uproar from the fans that he has since refused to give out the name of the other big villain, the Shadowed One. The members of the latter's organization, the Dark Hunters are also mostly known by code names, since LEGO couldn't afford to clear the rights for so many unique names. In fact, there are many toyless characters who have no name for the same reason. One of the few nameless toys is the Rahkshi of heat vision from the brand's last setline.
• The six Protectors from BIONICLE (2015) weren't named until the first book's author suggested to LEGO that maybe they should be. The 2015 villains were also only given descriptive or generic designations, with only Kulta the Skull Grinder getting a personal name in a magazine description.

Visual Novels

• From the Ace Attorney series:
  • In Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, Calisto Yew. Her real name is never given; the only thing we know about it for certain is that it absolutely is not Calisto Yew. Or Shih-na.
  • He's been around for 6 games and counting, and no-one knows His Honor's name. Or his brother's, who is also a judge. Or his Khura'inese counterpart's own. Most judges in general in the series seem not to get given names, although there have been a few exceptions.
  • There's a hypochondriac who likes to impersonate doctors. He's gone by Dr. Hotti and Dr. Hickfield, but we don't know his real name.
  • One character is even "The Bellhop Who Swore The Affidavit".
  • Gumshoe's boss (the guy who invented the Blue Badger) is only ever referred to as Chief.
  • In Investigations 2, the real name of President Huang's body double is never revealed, even after he turns out to be one of the key characters in the overarching plot.
  • In Dual Destinies, despite being the Big Bad, we never learn the name of the phantom. Then again, this isn't unexplained, because he comments that he lost and forgot his identity long ago, and now only lives by the personality of whomever he impersonates.
• The heroine from Amnesia: Memories has no name given, as it's up to the player. She doesn't even have an official name, with even the homepage simply listing her as 'heroine'. The anime expanded her amnesia to include having forgotten her own name.
• In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, the Ultimate Imposter only lives through stealing other peoples' identities, as the imposter has none of their own.
  • Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls plays with this in regards to Nagito Komaeda. In-game, he's never ever referred to by name, only ever being called "Servant" both in-universe and by the game UI and profiles. But anyone who's played Danganronpa 2 (the previous game) will know perfectly well who he is.
• In Dies Irae, one of the two Big Bad's have no proper name as it has long since been lost to history due to him being so inconceivably ancient that even he himself no longer remembers it. Instead he is only ever referred to by one of his many, many aliases, most commonly either Karl Erst Krafft, Alessandro Cagliostro or his perhaps oldest known one, Mercurius.
• In Heart of the Woods, none of the fairies have names, since they believe names are "for humans." Madison assigns three fairies the names Hae, Anan, and Frio. The fairies repeatedly mention one of their kind known as "the moonsick one," who's better known by the name Evelyn Fischer.
• In the Murder Mystery Jisei, the protagonist's name is never mentioned, even though you are able to see his face and body. He is also the only character in the game who is not voiced.
• In Juniper's Knot both characters stay unnamed through the story. The concept of names doesn't even come up.
• In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors you learn the true identities of the other participants of the Nonary Game... except for Seven, who is an amnesiac and doesn't remember his own name for most of the game.
  • But even then, only Ace, Santa, June, and the 9th Man get their full names revealed. Lotus only receives a last name and the others have only first names. One of these eventually gets a canon full name as of the sequel: Junpei Tenmyouji. The rest have full names given to them by the creator, but which he considers to be more of a "possibility" than true Canon.
• The main characters in SC2VN use their online aliases instead.
• In Slay the Princess, none of the characters are named. There's the Princess, the Narrator, and the various voices that can echo in the head of the Player Character, but there's not so much as a hint as to what anyone's name is. If you ask the Princess for her name, she claims she's been locked in the cabin so long that she can't remember what her name is. Instead, she asks that you call her "Your Royal Highness" or just "Princess". However, one of the voices in your head wonders if that means she's named "Princess Princess".
• At one point in Kagetsu Tohya Kohaku shows up for the school festival and doesn't really know what to put for her surname, so she just writes Tohno. She, and Hisui by extension, don't actually have last names. Or at least, they don't remember their families or childhood. Ciel's last name is also never given and Ciel also happens to be a pseudonym. Her real first name is Elesia, something mentioned only in passing. It's something a bit more important in her case, marking her as someone who doesn't entirely belong.

Web Animation

• In An Adventure of Sheep and Chicken a hiker, the main antagonist, is never given a name because the two protagonists never ask him for it. Subverted with Sheep and Chicken, the heroes. Sheep and Chicken, respectively, are their actual names.
• None of the protagonists in Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story have names.
• Parodied in the case of Rookie from Combat Devolved. He tries to tell the others his name, but no-one cares and resorts to calling him Rookie.
• Dreamscape: Eleenin's fairy trio are just called 'fairies' without any distinction between the three.
• None of the cast of Every Faggot Ever have names.
• Fallen Kingdom: Except for Herobrine, the Wither, and the Ender Dragon (who aren't named in the actual videos either), no one has a name due to the lack of dialogue.
• Fallout Lore: The Storyteller: The Storyteller does have a name, but we never hear it since whoever says it is either interrupted or drowned out by something.
• G’s Paragate features a red-skinned buff man wearing an iron helmet in every episode of the "Jungle on a Jungle" story arc. This character never has his name mentioned (the narrator simply refers to him and his acquaintance, Galfriche, as “the two strong men”), and he also never has any dialogue, so his name is likewise never revealed by the subtitle box.
• Kouka And Bibi has an interesting variation on this trope: while we know what names the titular characters could technically have, whether each character is named Bibi or Kouka is anybody's guess — even the creator's.
• Minecraft Endventures: The Rebel Leader isn't named anywhere in the series. The creator stated that the viewer can call him whatever they want to.
• Musophobia: The main character's name is not mentioned at all in the film.
• RWBY:
  • Discussed Trope: Untold years ago, two gods lived on Remnant, whose actions in their lifetime affected humanity for centuries to come. Despite his importance to the show's plot, the male's name has been lost to history. Jinn reveals that Ozma's first reincarnation triggered a mistake that led to the secret Forever War being fought between him and Salem, which included the pair faking gods to try and unite humanity. Ozma's current host, Oscar, is horrified to realise that Ozma never learned the name of his first host. Jinn confirms that it took Ozma a long time to learn how to live in harmony with his hosts, leaving the heroes assuming the worst about Oscar's eventual fate.
  • The Grimm Reaper is a legendary Huntress who was active on Remnant when Qrow was a student. The only thing anyone ever knew about this enigmatic Huntress was that she never revealed her name and always hid her identity behind a decorative skull mask. When she mysteriously disappeared, everyone eventually accepted that she had died. Qrow based his Sinister Scythe on her dual kama. Maria reveals in Volume 6 that she was the Grimm Reaper; she hid her identity because her father realised Silver-Eyed Warriors were being hunted to extinction for unknown reasons. Despite her precautions, Salem's subordinate found her but could only blind her. Maria went into hiding out of fear that assassins would reappear to finish the job.
• Played for Laughs in Senpai Club with a characters name who is pronounced unintelligibly and the subtitles refer to as "(???)".
• Voodont: There are four characters that physically appear in this story. Out of all of them, Ellie's friend is the only one with no known name. The doll is also not given a name and is simply referred to as Doll by Sam, but that's likely because she had just been made to resemble and torture Ellie.
• The two leading pigs from The Oats Series are never named despite being the main characters. They simply refer to each other as "brother" although they can be identified by their American (Older Pig) and British (Younger Pig) accents.

Real Life

• The last member of the Yahi tribe of Northern California never disclosed his name, as the tribe's customs stated that the only way to reveal one's name to an outsider was to be introduced by another member of the tribe. Since he was the last one of his tribe, there was no one to introduce him, and he therefore became known as "Ishi", the word for "man" in his language. His real name will never be known.
• Similarly, Juana Maria, better known as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, a native woman who lived for two decades on an otherwise-uninhabited island^*the award-winning novel Island of the Blue Dolphins was based on her story. By the time she was rescued, her language was all but extinct, and she would die less than two months later, before anyone could develop a means to effectively communicate with her; as such, her rescuers were never able to ascertain her true name. The name Juana Maria, by which she is usually remembered, was given to her by a priest at the mission where she spent the last weeks of her life.

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