ItвЂ™s that theyвЂ™re aware that with their great power comes great responsibility and that these literal babies need the best start they can get in a galaxy that WOULD, ACTUALLY, seek to strip them of everything aside from their power and use them as mindless pawns, so they try to habituate them in a culture where these growing children can learn about themselves in a way that allows them safety (force powers might be dangerous for bbies!), guidance (nursery-keeper Jedi! taking CARE of the children! Yoda teaches the little ones!!! how loving and caring and nurturing!!!), loving community (with their classes), and a lack of CO-DEPENDENT attachment to oneвЂ™s home/primary people.

It isnвЂ™t that Jedi are cradle-robbing cultists who strip away memory and identity until nothing is left but a mindless pawn If we were meant to see the Jedi as an oppressive institution who deserved what they got, there would be no individuality allowed.ДЇor the Jedi to say вЂњthis vital piece of me will always carry a bit of where I came fromвЂќ is hugely telling, and to say the Jedi try to cut their members off from any connection at all to their origins just isnвЂ™t consistent with what we see onscreen. Saying вЂњI am a person, and this is my storyвЂќ is antithetical to the crushing obedience the Sith require to stay in power. The Sith and people like them (the Kaminoans, Pong Krell, the Empire) take away names and identities from everyone. In TCW, the Jedi honor that by calling the clones by their chosen names instead of their numbers. The clones name themselves to assert their unique identities and personhood (which Sidious, again, takes away from them in a horrific theft). YouвЂ™ve only forgotten.вЂќ Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and Caleb shed their old names to become Ben and Fulcrum and Kanan in a hostile new world. вЂњIвЂ™m a person, and my name is Anakin,вЂќ carries us to Luke saying, вЂњIt is the name of your true self. Names are also hugely thematically important in Star Wars.

Ahsoka is a toddler when Plo Koon comes for her, so if she was called something else before Ahsoka, we would probably know that after 7 seasons and a couple books. If his keeping his name was unusual, we would know. This is no knock against them IвЂ™m talking exclusively about the narrative and thematic context of this particular space fantasy world.)ДЄnakin doesnвЂ™t get a new name until Sidious strips him of it and his identity, and he is THE outlier for the Jedi. (A lot of monastic traditions ask their members to pick new names as a symbol of their starting a new life. If the Jedi are adopting children as young as a year old, these children already have names, and they keep them.Д¬ould the Order be renaming children when they take them in? Of course, but if the Order wanted to enforce total conformity and removal from society, they would assign last names by the clan/youngling group the children are raised in or have lingeage-identifying names taken when someone becomes a padawan. ThereвЂ™s always been a lot of discussion around how much the Jedi Order forces their members to give up their birth culture, but I think one thing we can look at to determine the OrderвЂ™s attitudes towards a JediвЂ™s birth culture and family is how all of the Jedi keep their birth names.Д«illaba, Kenobi, Ti, Koon, Skywalker, Tano, Secura or no last name at all.

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