Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1827503-20190617070717/@comment-1827503-20190711011135

Bumping this to declare my continuing interest, now that I'm back from vacation.

Evidence for "Neo Politan":
 * Amity Arena spells her name Neo Politan.
 * According to the Amity Arena developers, they asked a source from Rooster Teeth, who said her last name is Politan.
 * Further tweets have indicated that this Rooster Teeth source outright said "her name is Neo Politan", which means the Amity Arena devs did not misinterpret what the source stated.

Evidence for "Neopolitan":
 * Monty's Facebook spelled her name Neopolitan.
 * RWBY Chibi spells her name Neopolitan.
 * RWBY: Combat Ready spells her name Neopolitan.
 * All four times her name has been spelled on the Rooster Teeth store (not counting Combat Ready), it was Neopolitan. One of these four items physically spells her name; the other three include her name only in the item description.

Miscellaneous evidence:
 * Neo's voice grunting actor (if it's even the same person every time) is uncredited in the English dub, which means her name has never appeared in the credits.
 * No single retcon of her name can exist while keeping all sources accurate as of production, as the most recent store item to spell her name Neopolitan long postdates Amity Arena spelling it Neo Politan.
 * The standalone first name "Neo" could theoretically break the Color Naming Rule, but this could very well be a Cyril Ian or Shay D. Mann situation. Regardless of whether the space exists in her name or not, her full name passes the CNR.

Unreliability of Amity Arena?
 * A few days after this thread died down, the Amity Arena devs admitted that their internal file names are sometimes inaccurate (as we saw with Carmine Esclados/Escarlados), which means the same situation can theoretically have happened for Neo. This would resolve the contradiction in theory, but contradicts later statements by the devs.

My conclusion:
 * Every first-party source spells her name Neopolitan. It's much more likely that the third-party Amity Arena devs (and the single RT staffer they asked) are the ones mistaken, though I can see why it's so confusing.