What would the world be like if people usually had unique given names? Perhaps the onus on the parents to select a name that hasn't ever been used. Never name after someone else, as is the custom in China but not the U.S.
Names could be a way into gradually introduce new phonetic sounds into a language (inspired during researching 128-bit squares).
Names might become harder to remember, with no familiar mental structures to hang them on.
Last names might become less relevant: no more need to distinguish which "John".
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