Does changing the name property of a Prefab Clone have side effects?

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1

I have been setting the .name property Prefabs I create during runtime:

    Seeker a = (Seeker) Instantiate(myPrefab, new Vector3(20,0,20),Quaternion.identity);
    a.name = "Red George";

I do this to make reading the Hierarchy outliner easier but it's not really needed for my project otherwise. Am I breaking the clone's relationship to the prefab? Are there other side effects like increased memory usage or mesh duplication?

2

It doesn't have any effect (unless you happened to have code that's expecting instantiated objects to have the "(Clone)" suffix in the name).