#1 Pet Peeve: Characters Without Names

I realize this a very minute detail of Candide, and there are plenty of other topics to cover regarding this book, but once this thought hit me I couldn't get it out of my mind. I came across this question right after reading the part where the old woman is telling Candide and Cunegonde her story.
Here's the question:
Why doesn't Voltaire give the old woman a name? She's a major character and rather important to the story, doesn't that entitle her to something better than "the old woman"?

Solution:
Undecided... I do, however, have a few reasons as to why characters have been denied a namesake in the past and why I think those reasons do not apply to her.

Reason #1: Sometimes authors leave out character's names to make the character seem more relatable to the reader. Like in Sonny's Blues, Sonny's brother is referred to as "Sonny's brother" the entire story, even though he's the narrator. However, I still find it hard to relate to a princess with half a buttocks who watched her mother slaughtered to pieces firsthand.

Reason #2: I've only come across one example for this explanation, but it's one of the most interesting in my opinion. In my church's small group, we did a study on good and bad women in the Bible and we discussed why Potipher's wife's name is never mentioned. We decided that God was so disgusted with her selfish motives that she didn't deserve to have her name mentioned in the Bible. This still doesn't apply to the old woman, though.

Reason #3: You could also say that she is not given a name because she's not a major main character. But, there are lesser characters than she that are given names, such as Vanderdendur and Don Issachor.

I realize there are other unnamed characters in the book, but for some reason I couldn't stop questioning why she wasn't given one. Anyway, thank you for reading my ramble and I hope if that if you learned nothing else from this book, learn to be thankful for a whole buttocks! Goodnight everyone :)

Tori Burger