Characters with No Name Given in comic strips.
- The Broons. Only the older kids have names. Their parents are Maw and Paw Broon (and Paw's father is Grandpaw Broon), and their younger siblings are The Twins and The Bairn.
- Calvin and Hobbes:
- Calvin's parents are unnamed. Watterson once commented that he did this because the strip is presented from Calvin's viewpoint, and as such his parents are only important as his parents.
- The doctor which Calvin occasionally visits. Despite being one of the few reoccurring characters, his name is never mentioned.
- Dilbert examples:
- The Pointy-Haired Boss does not have a name. Since most of the characters in the strip are his employees, Scott Adams gets around by having them refer to the character as "the Boss" and address him as "sir". In one episode of the animated show, the Boss signs a delivery form. The delivery man looks at the clipboard incredulously, and says "that's your name?" We never see what it is, however we later hear he signed as "Eunice". The same episode established that his name is NOT "Eunice" (it's his alias for line-dancing) or "Bob Johnson" (which he uses for mail fraud).
- Dilbert, Wally, Alice and all the other major human characters seem to simply have no last names. In this strip
, two characters introduce themselves with their full names and then Alice introduces herself as... just Alice, as though that were the only name she had. - The hyper-intelligent Garbage-Man: In an early strip, Dilbert tells another character his Garbage-Man's name is "Gus Simpson", but this may have been before the character of the Garbage-Man was fully developed, and could refer to someone else.
- We've never heard Dilbert's mother's actual name.
- 'The Dog' in Footrot Flats has such an Embarrassing First Name that he never allows it to be said or revealed in any way in the comic, and holds a grudge against Aunt Dolly for giving him the name.
- Nuts: The child protagonist is never named.
- Peanuts examples:
- Pig-Pen's real name is never revealed.
- The Little Red-Haired Girl's name is never revealed in the comic strip, though at least two of the animated specials (It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown and Happy New Year, Charlie Brown) called her "Heather". However, despite writing the specials himself, Schulz considered both the name and her appearance (in the strip she was The Ghost) non-canonical.
- Almost no adults in the strip are given names, and in the animated specials, they don't even have intelligible voices. One minor exception in the strip is Linus' teacher, who we know as "Miss Othmar".
- The girl who sits next to Rerun in school is never referred to by name, despite being a fairly major character for the last few years of the strip.
- The Scamp newspaper comic makes the odd decision to state the fact that Lady and Tramp never got around to giving Scamp's siblings names. The comic runs for two months before they decide to address this fact and actually decide to start giving them one.
