I think Palpatine is definitely not his real name, but I don't know that they would give a Senator a new name as they do for the serving Queen.
I suspect the Jedi name their recruits when the child hasn't already been given a name. In the Jedi Apprentice series, for example, there are characters who had family names, like Bruck Chun whose father is Vox Chun. However, many of the Jedi's names are to do with light and goodness and energy, etc, so (although I know this was just the way Lucas wrote them) I tend to think that these are deliberate names given to the younglings that may not otherwise carry a family name. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are fantastic examples because they have a style of name that isn't replicated elsewhere.
And like caliburn suggested above, I think it was a transition from Obi-Wan to Old Ben. :)
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Date: 2005-08-22 11:46 pm (UTC)I suspect the Jedi name their recruits when the child hasn't already been given a name. In the Jedi Apprentice series, for example, there are characters who had family names, like Bruck Chun whose father is Vox Chun. However, many of the Jedi's names are to do with light and goodness and energy, etc, so (although I know this was just the way Lucas wrote them) I tend to think that these are deliberate names given to the younglings that may not otherwise carry a family name. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are fantastic examples because they have a style of name that isn't replicated elsewhere.
And like caliburn suggested above, I think it was a transition from Obi-Wan to Old Ben. :)