I have some free time, so I decided to overanalyze a minor detail about Baby 5 again: her name
When he reveals his full name, Law says to Baby 5 and Buffalo "I don't use a code name like you guys." We know he is referring to both of them as he uses a second person plural pronoun. However, it is commonly assumed her name originates from her past before joining the Doflamingo family, and that it implies she was someone's fifth baby, but never given any name beyond that because of the lack of care she received from her birth family and community. Otherwise, who would have given her such a name? So, is "Baby 5" her real name or code name?
One possibility is that Law has his facts wrong and it is actually her name, but she didn't correct him. If not, I want to consider what this means. Why would she have chosen Baby 5 as her code name if we assume that is what happened?
What is a name, anyway? At it's simplest, a word, or several, that refer to an individual. In most cultures this is usually something that is not just a "normal" vocabulary word like "tree" or "streetlamp."
My headcanon/explanation is that she was never given a proper name, but now has taken on "Baby 5" as her name. "Baby 5" is a descriptor. It refers to the quality of her being the fifth baby, but not her identity. It may just have been what they called her.
I know, I know, a name is what someone is called. But it may not have been intended to be permanent. Some cultures give a temporary name to babies, as the risk of infant mortality was high for most of human history.
After all, it has "Baby" in it. If she had grown up in that community, would they really have continued to call her "Baby?" Or would she have been given a name once she became a contributing member and wasn't just a helpless baby? She remembers the reason for her abandonment as because she was "of no use," so to this day she fixates on being of use to others.
Her name often brings up comparisons to Sanji. We know way more about his past, including that he and his siblings follow a naming scheme. In Japan, it was not uncommon to name children by birth order, particularly males. Sanji is not unthinkable as a real life name. It's worse with the Vinsmokes, because they were essentially Judge's lab rats.
I think therein lies the difference: there was intention in the way Sanji and his siblings were named, heinous though that intention may be. Baby 5 would have been numbered out of a lack of care. She wasn't an experiment. She was probably unwanted from the start.
Once she leaves, there is no indication she started going by any other name. Compare this to the Baroque Works agents who used very obvious codenames and dropped them after Crocodile's defeat. If this is something she has gone by her whole life, of course she would not see anything strange about or feel the need to change it.
TLDR: I think she was never given a "real" name, "Baby 5" started as a nickname but she continued to use it until it was just her name.
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