In Great Expectations, why do you think it is one of Magwitch's principal conditions that Pip "always bear the name of Pip"?

This question is one that the text does not answer, and so
it is up to us as keen, intelligent readers to try and infer the reason behind this
somewhat odd request of Magwitch. It is important to focus on the reasons why Magwitch
wanted to make Pip into a gentleman, when he first appears to Pip and reveals his
position as Pip's mystery benefactor:

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"And then, dear boy, it was a recompense to me,
look'ee here, to know in secret that I was making a gentleman. The blood horses of them
colonists might fling up the dust over me as I was walking; what do I say? I says to
myself, 'I'm making a better gentleman nor ever you'll be!' When one of 'em says to
another, 'He was a convict, a few years ago, and is a ignorant common fellow now, for
all he's lucky,' what do I say? I says to myself, 'If I ain't a gentleman, nor yet ain't
got no learning, I'm the owner of such. All on you owns stock and land; which on you
owns a brought-up London
gentleman?'"

It is well worth
analysing this in detail - Magwitch seems to want to "own" a gentleman primarily as a
way of getting back at a class system to which he is always excluded and rejected. He
takes great delight in being able to consider himself superior to the colonists because
he "owns" someone who is better and more cultured than they will ever be, and seems to
be satisfied to enjoy vicariously the position in society that Pip is able to command
because of his patronage. Thus, retaining the simple name Pip, maybe a symbol of just
how much Magwitch rejects the social norms that have ostracised
him.

However, consider the name "Pip" and why Dickens chose
to use it. This novel is known as a bildungsroman, in that it focuses on the education
and development of one central character and charts their transformation from childhood
to becoming a useful member of society. Thus the name "Pip" emphasises this theme by
comparing Pip to a seed that has been planted and is being nurtured in different ways.
We as readers are keen to know how this Pip is going to grow and develop, and what kind
of plant will finally emerge.