Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-198.82.111.80-20160315173800/@comment-26397825-20160412021611

Well, you sorta can. You can change your name after all.

But it's like every tradition. Some people don't particularly feel like following it, so when they name their kids they think to themselves 'eh, our last name is a colour. I'll name it what I want instead of trying to find a colour for him/her'. Doesn't mean they don't follow the CNR or the in-world tradition by a technicality, but it does mean that the parents decided they wanted to name their kid what they wanted instead of following the tradition and giving them a colour name, whilst still following CNR.