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** In Banks' non-culture novel ''[[Against a Dark Background]]'', the reverse of this trope - [[Small Name, Big Ego]], perhaps? - is brought into play; the aristocratic main character is named Sharrow. Just Sharrow. When a police officer asks for her ''full'' name, she responds... colourfully.

*** They have an interesting convention that the lower the social class, the more the names. Lampshaded when one character mentions that if Sharrow's cousin had been born with four names instead of one, he'd be a street thief. (This may be a reference to the habit British aristocrats have of using simply the name of their peerage - e.g. Toby Fitzwalter Vere de Vere, Lord Lovaduck, would sign his letters as simply "Lovaduck" without any of his given names, or even the title "Lord.")

* ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]'': Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraimsdaughter Longstocking. Or her original Swedish name, Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump.

* ''Star Surgeon'' by Alan Edward Nourse has the character Dal Timgar, whose full name is unpronounceable to humans.

* [[Star Trek: Voyager|Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01]]. Although it's technically her designation, not her given name, which is Annika Hansen. She chooses to go by "Seven", though.

** [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Another Star Trek series]] has Reginald Endicott Barclay III.

** "And that man's name is... Well we can't pronounce his real name so we call him Fez!"

** "The first five Ks are silent"