So weird question, but do you know the canonical names of each of the Dragon Quest leads? I only know Solo/Sophia for DQ4, Madason for DQ5, and Patrick for DQ6 (the last one was shown on an official English DQ6 DS site from what I recall).
Fair enough. So you get "Eight" as a name if you stick in nothing as your name. I should try doing that for the other Dragon Quest games and see what happens...