why does our moon have no name?

Question

all other planets moons have names

Answer 1

It does. It is often called by it's greek name "Luna".

Answer 2

The moon has no formal name other than "the moon". This is because it is singular and unambiguous, and thus any references to "the moon" are obvious, so no other nomenclature has been necessary. Still, in English it is occasionally called Luna (Latin for moon), or Selene (Greek for moon), to distinguish it from the generic "moon" (a natural satellite of another planet).

Answer 3

It does have a name.

It is known as "Luna" from which we get the word "lunar."

It is also quite properly referred to as "The Moon."

Since this planet has but one natural moon that shouldn't confuse anyone. Incidentally, prior to the discovery of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, our moon was the largest natural satellite in relation to its host planet's size. There are some larger moons but they orbit around giant gaseous planets like Jupiter and Saturn.

Charon is somewhere around a fourth the diameter of Pluto which makes it proportionately the largest moon in comparison to the host planet.

Answer 4

What's wrong with referring to it as just 'the moon'. If there is two or more of something then it is a good idea to give them different names, but there is only one moon.

Answer 5

There are 2 answers for you.

When referring to the Earth's moon you should capitalize the "M". The Moon is bright tonight.

It is also known as Luna. As in lunatic because people used to believe the moon affected the water in peoples heads like the tides.

Answer 6

It is called The Moon.

Answer 7

It does.

Its called the Moon (a proper noun).

Other moons use the generic noun, moon.

Its no different to an American calling the US president the President, even though there are presidents in other countries.

Answer 8

i think we haven't gave it no name cuz we have only one single moon so we can't cunfunde it with other moons, when we say moon we refer at the moon of the earth

Answer 9

The ancient civilisations like greek and other parts where mythologies were quite old, moon is being addressed with a specific name like luna in greek, chandra (sasinam) in sanskrit.
Ramachandran V.

Answer 10

moon itself is a name b'cos the name given to all other planets moon is not given by aliens and gods it only given by humans it is done b'cos if they keep all their name moon we cannot distinguish them properly.the name moon was a name given by the humans in the early century and later when other planets were discovered their name were given and their moons were also given name simultaneously.

Answer 11

Moon is the name..

Its like his name is christian and he is a christian too...

Or maybe you could analyse why the 'Jeep' globalised into a type of 4 wheeler...