Jon Favreau explained The Mandalorian had to give Baby Yoda a real name because of the character's true nature.

There are still plenty of unknowns, however. Grogu is the same species as Master Yoda, but very little is known about Yoda's ...

(Yoda is not the name of Yoda's species, which was kept deliberately obscure by George Lucas; the show is following his lead so far). Fans of memes call him the greatest thing to happen since ...