Note that several languages have numeronyms (Japanese and Latin being the most likely to be encountered). It's also common for prisoners to have serial numbers instead of names.
Science Fiction stories, especially dystopias, are likely to use this trope to some extent. And Heaven help you if your name is 4, 13, 34, 69, 108, 420, 666, or a combination of them. in the single digits) as a name is generally considered less humiliating than a large one. They also don't necessarily apply to spy or superhero Code Names that are numbers (like 007), unless they become part of a Secret-Identity Identity. (And in some cases, to intentionally dehumanize them.)įor some reason, these implications are usually somewhat lessened when the number in question is "zero".
The character is a prisoner or otherwise an inhabitant of a large bureaucratic institution, which assigns people numbers to keep track of them.The number is a serial number or shortening thereof. The character is an Artificial Human or robot, whose creators regard it as non-sentient (or at least did when they were handing out names).This can be for (at least) two overlapping reasons: Usually this carries dehumanizing implications. When a character has a number as a name, i.e.
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