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What is Baby Yoda’s real name?

Baby Yoda’s name is unknown to the general public. Disney CEO Bob Iger knows the Child’s actual name, but his lips are sealed. The closest the show has come to naming the little green guy is by naming one of the episodes “The Child,” and of course that’s no name at all.

Baby Yoda skyrocketed to fame after debuting in The Mandalorian’s premiere. When we finally learn what his real name is, it may well prove a bigger deal than when Kramer’s first name was exposed back in the day on Seinfeld. (It was Cosmo.)

But we’re gonna have to wait. “I know its real name, and it’s one of the reasons I have extra security now, because I don’t want to be given some kind of truth serum by someone,” Iger said on The Star Wars Show.

Early on, Iger called the little green guy “Baby Yoda” (like we all do), but series showrunner Jon Favreau wasn’t thrilled with him using the name the internet gave him. “I got chastised,” Iger said. “In my early emails to Jon Favreau, I referenced in my emails, ‘Baby Yoda,’ it just seemed easy. And I got my wrist slapped a few times by Jon: ‘It’s not Baby Yoda!’ ‘OK, OK.”

"I’ll make one announcement. The baby’s name is not George."

Iger says he knew Baby Yoda would make a big splash with Star Wars fans. “I remember times throughout my career in television, when I saw either a character, or an actor playing a character when you just knew. And I realized in this particular case, The Child, or ‘the asset,’ — which we don’t refer to as The Child, or ‘the asset’ the way the world is referring to The Child or ‘the asset,’ that’s Baby Yoda, that’s a no-no.”