The original title was "The Last Man in Europe" [0]. From the wikipedia article: ...but in a letter dated 22 October 1948 to his publisher Fredric Warburg, ei

The original title was "The Last Man in Europe" [0]. From the wikipedia article: ...but in a letter dated 22 October 1948 to his publisher Fredric Warburg, eight months before publication, Orwell wrote about hesitating between that title and Nineteen Eighty-Four. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#:~:text=The%20Last%20Man%20in%20Europe,title%20and%20Nineteen%20Eighty%2DFour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#:~:text=T....