Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160730160356/@comment-4010415-20160731071732

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

I do think that in the beginning, some people may have changed their last names rather than changing their first names, and possibly the next generation (so James and Lisa's generation, perhaps) had a higher percentage of children being named after colours, but it wasn't fully integrated into the culture yet. But then by the time Winter's generation came around, it had spread properly and all children were named after colours (this would include Octavia), with a very few who are not (which could possibly cover Octavia in this minority).

So it wasn't an automatic "Every child ever born since this day forth was named after a colour". It's more of a "People started the tradition, with some adults even deciding to change their last names to reflect colours to show their support for the motion. Then as time passed and children were born, more and more of those children were named after colours until eventually it became the norm for children to have colour names, and children without colour names are the very rare exception."

This shows a more believable gradient in naming traditions in my opinion, but still allows for in-world examples of children without colour names to exist. The only thing that gets me is that Monty said all the characters (minus Ozpin) follow the CNR. I think it was his intention for all the characters we meet to have names that follow the CNR, except Ozpin and Salem. If so, then hopefully, Miles and Kerry are still sticking to that. Though, of course, we know that they already had a lot of characters planned in 2014, including characters we met in volume 3 (Ciel and Flynt).