Mine don't have names, at least not proper ones. Now that I'm more co-conscious and processing it all in therapy, I have ways of referring to them, like there's the old nice person, the homeless angry girl, dad, things like that. I guess when they are out they don't give names, because they are mostly so scared of socializing... and we found out the homeless girl doesn't even know how to speak English, she can only make sounds. Back to names though... I don't have any connection to the name my parents gave either. I hate my name and tend not to give it out to new people until prompted so I guess it makes sense that the parts are a similar way.

My T asked if they had names and I said no, asked if I wanted to give them names or talk to them about it and I said no again. So that's where we're at.

For people with named parts/alters, did they say that was their name or did you/a host assign the name for organizational purposes? Or something else?