Talk:Color Naming Rule/@comment-79.194.196.180-20170208210923/@comment-27087508-20170210161230

You're looking so far into it you're missing the obvious anwer: they don't.

Out of universe, the CNR doesn't say it has to be the first name that is the colour allusion, either name or both together are fine.

IN UNIVERSE, the colour naming was a choice made by many after the Great War. It was not a legal requirement, so it stands to reason that some of the population chose not to. Ironwood is from Atlas for heavens sake, the nation that instigated the oppression of art and self expression in the first place. You honestly think his salty ass parents or grandparents would have been happy to go along with a notion that basically added insult to injury over the defeat of Atlas and the shit it started?