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In this sense, the name 'Claudia' as the name of a free woman is a quite different name from the name 'Claudia' as the name of a slave. - (Renegades of Gor, Chapter 21, Sentence #1390)

In her reduction to bondage she loses that name. Even if the same name, in one sense, should be put on her as a slave, it is not the same name in the crucial sense; it is not now a legal name to which one has title in one's own right. It is a slave name. In this sense, the name 'Claudia' as the name of a free woman is a quite different name from the name 'Claudia' as the name of a slave. The slave name, for example, can be changed at a master's whim. This loss of the old name, incidentally, and the susceptibility to being named, and the new name, if the master decides to give her a name, and such, although they are simple, legal consequences of the nature of reduction to bondage, are also, I think, psychologically useful in helping her understand that she is now a slave, and that she is now radically and absolutely different from what she was. Too, I think that such things, a new name, for example, showing her that she is now in a new reality, and so on, can help her make the transition more smoothly into bondage. - (Renegades of Gor)