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by Symbiote 221 days ago
In The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, the anarchists have names assigned at birth by a computer, guaranteed to be unique. They are gender-neutral (I think their artificial language doesn't have the possibility for gendered names) and monomial.

(I highly recommend reading the book, it's one of my favourite novels.)
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vintermann 221 days ago
They are not guaranteed to be unique as I recall, at one point the main character gets in a fight with a guy who demanded he change his name since he was tired of getting confused.

Ursula Le Guin didn't sugarcoat anarchism, at least, though I still think the depiction of the main planet system is a lot more depressingly plausible.

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Symbiote 220 days ago
Those two names, IIRC, are unique but similar. (Shevek and Shevet, or something like that.)
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