> If you're the only Jack in town, why bother with any other name than Jack? In Le Guin's The Dispossessed [1] people on the satellite planet called Anarres ge

> If you're the only Jack in town, why bother with any other name than Jack? In Le Guin's The Dispossessed [1] people on the satellite planet called Anarres get assigned an unique mononymous [2] name at birth. No one else alive at the time has the same name (and usually the name isn't re-used for a number of years). The protagonist is "Shevek". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononymous_person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononymous_person