Alien Names Human society, which communicates with gestures, modulated grunts, and symbols, finds they must put a name to things in order to organize and catalog their world. The babe points his finger, says what becomes the word for mother because it is usually the first uttered by the babe, and later learns the written symbols that describe his early caretaker - mama, mother, madre, or whatever. Everything has a name, else things could not be discussed. Thus when dealing with the alien issue, assigning names is the first order. All of these names have consonants and vowels and sound suspiciously like something that would come our of human mouths.
Human society finds names necessary because of the lack of telepathy.
Thus aliens are assigned names based on their constellation of origin or their appearance - Zeta, Pleiadean, Nordic, or Dino. Most worlds evolve creatures that don't have mouths that shape consonants and vowels like human mouths. Most are water worlds, and they don't have speech at all. They may vibrate, just as whales hum over long distances. Of the worlds that are other than water worlds, the majority are reptilian.