They’ll resort to a device like the hurricane names. We’ll see variants Alphonse, Betty, Chris, Deborah, Enrico…
Or maybe they will sell the privilege of having one named after yourself or someone else. Wouldn’t you pay to have one named after your most or least favorite anime character?
Simple sequential numbers might be proposed, and there’s a certain pragmatism there, but who is going to remember if they had number 45 or number 54?
Doubling up only postpones the inevitable: alpha alpha, alpha beta, alpha gamma…
Or—wait. Name them after insects. “Bugs,” right? Like the covid bug. That way they will never run out. There are between 1.5 million and 7 million species (or 30 million if you want to believe those estimates). Anyway, a lot. More than enough if you want to start combining them: epsilon Deborah borer beetles, epsilon Deborah carpenter ants…
Who says this couldn’t be fun?