really neat thing about toki pona is how names are exclusively adjectives. you can only refer to what a thing is called via "object Name" format and never the name on it's own. someone named Kisun would be "jan Kisun," (meaning person Kisun), or you would refer to a place like the USA as "ma Mewika" (meaning place America, altered to fit toki pona's phonotactics). in that way, asking for someone's name includes asking them what type of thing they are as though it were a part of the name itself, the object included being called the name's "headnoun"
but there is no rule that your headnoun must be "jan". I can call myself "soweli Sawa" (roughly meaning " 'nonspecific land mammal' Sawa") to effortlessly communicate that I'm in fact some type of creature without needing to specify it unprompted.
