Names for sims (first and last)!

[HystericalParoxysm]

What are your favourite names that you tend to use a lot in your game? What are the names of your favourite families, and your legacy family? Do you have any cute themes that you use?

[happycowlover]

I'm currently only playing one family and it's The Hamiltons

Julian Hamilton
Melinda Hamilton
Oliver Hamilton (Child, 3 days away from being a Teen)
Dominique Hamilton (Child Boy)

[Montridge]

I just got done answering this question in another thread. LOL
I'll just post a link. :D
http://forums.sims2community.com/showpost.php?p=916659&postcount=84

[Don Lothario]

I try to combine the names of the mother and father in the child's first name. As an example, the son of Adam and Eve might be Ava, and their son might be Ed. I end up with some strange names that way, but it helps me keep track of who's related to whom when I run into great-great-grand uncles on community lots and don't recognize them. When I create a sim from scratch, I generally have their name mean something, like "A. Lazy Slacker" when I create a totally unmotivated slug, etc. When pairing sims off, I make sure the one with the better surname does the proposing/marrying, so their surname is handed down to the next generation.

[AngelFrouk]

My main family:

Liam Benedict (diseased) his daughter:
Chelsae Lucardi is married to
Giovanni Lucradi they have a son
Saul.

Liams sister:

Mackenzie DiMeo is married to
Chad Chun they have two kids
Chad Jr. and
Rose

Stefan DiMeo is Mackenzie former husband but cheated on his wife with
Helena Sash who lives with her sister
Anna-Renate (named after a person in a book)

Other personalities in my neighbourhood:

Ramina Chun is the sister of Chad
Paulina Bloomsbury is the older sister of Liam and Mackenzies mother
Morgan Bloomsbury is Paulinas niece

Naom Galac is an (created) alien and lives with his sister
Xnoge Galac

Nomur Benedict is a half brother of Paulina
Zaraah is his twin sister.

[PunkyBreester]

I try to have unique names in my game, but nothing that's just completely odd or impossible to even imagine pronouncing. I get names from online random generators, books, TV, anywhere I can. Some of my favorite names..:

Britanne Anagene
Bridgette Madoc Bill
Alice Montebeliard
Amadeo Montebeliard
Olecranon Talus (Anatomy book is a fun place to get names, :lol:)
Burke Caprice

There's a lot more, but, yeah. ^^

[photo]

lol i actually have an old baby book that i use a lot and I use stuff from whatever I'm watching on TV at the time...

My fave right now is The Tudors: Henry, Anne and baby Elizabeth (can anyone guess what thats from? :D)

I also have Hendrikson and Grant families from the HBO series "Big Love". In the past I've had familys with names from Law & Order: SVU and Judging Amy... My favorite people names at the moment are Lilly and Roman...

[WooHoo]

Favorite names for Males:
Ovid
Frederick
Alexander
Joshua
Laszlo
Dennis
Felix

Favorite names for Females
Sylvia
Darla
Luvia
Magdalena
Jillian
Sasha

Favorite last names
Bellini
Delancy
Starkweather
Burgess

[Slytherin-Girl]

I can get really random with my names. Sometimes if it's something specific, I'll look up names in a baby book, or online.

For Example, I named my Black Widow Challenge sim Lucrezia Borgia. She has had three daughters so far, Leonara, Isabelle and Giovanna, who are all name after other members of the Borgia family.

For my Legacy family, I did The odyssey/iliad names.
Founder was Helen.
She had two kids, son Paris and daughter Andromache.
Andromache has one son named hector and is pregnant again.
Paris had two daughters, Cassandra and Briseas.
Briseas has three children so far, daughter Thetis, and twin sons Agamemnon and Menelaus.

Other names I just like are:

Girls:
Illona
Elizabeth
Annabelle
Li-Mei
Alexandria

Boys:
Alexander
Cale
Ryuuen

[Zixx]

The names i'm using waaaay too much at the moment?

Amaryllis, Ky & Zane.

[beeps]

Legacy Family Names
Wentworth
James

Favorite Family Names
DeLaney
Ramón
Cañizares
de la Pica García
Hollister
Cooper
Honey

Favorite First Names
Dylan
Rylan
Trey
Blake
Kedren
Kaide
Cole
Nicholas/Nicky
Eric
Avery
Addison

Lauren
Kristin
Lucy
Elle
Kaley
Addison
Laura
Grace/Gracie
Rose/Rosa

Cute Names
The Honey Family - I made a family when I purchased OFB called "Honey" with father Shane and mother Gracie. Shane Honey opened up a Toy Store home business appropriately named "Honey Pot Toys." I think thats the cutest thing Ive ever come up with.
The Samsung Family - Its not THAT cute, but I named a male Sim of mine Sam Samsung who owned a tech store (Samsung is a cell phone brand). I thought it was clever in a non-clever sort of way. Get it? Yeah me either...
The Kilo Family - Khai Kilo (male)was the founder of my first ever Poverty Challenge. I just think its a cute name.
Hawaiian Names - Among others, I use Khai, Kamalei and Lilo for Sims of a Hawaiian culture.

[ChrstyFarie07_SC]

For some reason my most favorite and most used last name I use is Jerem, I just kinda made it up, and my favorite name for it is Keith and Jen :D

[jhd1189]

I try to pick names that aren't overly common, because I can only handle so many Mikes and Matts and it sort of unnerves me to have too many Sims that share the names of people I know well. That isn't to say that I don't use common names, but that I try not to overuse them. In other words, I'm just rambling pointlessly right now and telling you in a roundabout way that I pick whatever names I darn well please. :D

I currently have a Diamanda in my game, and I think I have a Tobias somewhere too. I also have a line of sims that I always name Roxanne Goldberry, in honor of a my favorite Sim from my TS1 days. I also like the names Nate and Keith, because they're normal sounding without being generic.

As far as last names go... I try to use variety, but I'm kind of partial to expensive sounding names. I have both a Van Helsing family and a Van Heusen family. I also like to make up last names that describe the Sim that I'm making... I have a permanent bachelor, for example, whose last name is Freebird.

*sigh* I'm so redundant sometimes. :lol:

[negneg189]

I have very average names. I swear, I have at least 6 Lily Browne's in my game! Here are some of my common ones.

Skye Redding
Lily Browne
Stephie Browne
Lucas Redding
*insert random name here* Redding or Browne
Danie (girl) Haver

I have alot, but they are all similer. My favorite name is Lily.

[MissLynn22]

My favorite female sims right now are:
Riley Dobbins
Frankie Lothario
Charlie Stone
Polly Prince
Norma Dobbins
C.J. Washington
Stevie Warner

And my favorite guy sims:
Memphis Monroe
Carmello Lothario
Remmington Harris (yes, the male maid; with a makeover he's a hot sim!)
Nolan Lothario
Ryan Lothario (Nolan & Ryan were twins)
Jack Washington

There's a lot more, but I can't think of them right now.

[Night Revenant]

Most of my Sims (my favorite Sims) are based on role-play characters of mine or of my friends, so yes, the names are slightly...odd?

Some last names
Stoneheart
Valcross
Lieb
DeLuc
Sonata

Female Names
Takryn
Tyria
Katlah
Sophia
Caranfin
Amara
Sheris
Celasia
Solari
Kato
Ursula
Ara
...and so on.

Male Names
Tatic
Dante
Xarius
Drake
Lucian
Kristof
Hadyn
Hadrian
Lyall
Tyrant
...and so on again.

With some families I go with themes, for example, my couple Dante and Sheris, name their children after angels (Gabriel, Michael, etc). My alien children are named after planets, stars or constellations (Orion, Saturn, etc) and the children who are the by-product of Grimmy are named after gods of death, figures and even places in the Underworld(s) (Charon, Hades, Styx, etc).

[punkd20]

I love names began with Ana like Ana-Maria or Ana-Lucia etc.
I love Addison,Meredith,Kate and Leann names for female sims.
But i always use Russian,Greek or Turkish names for my male sims :D.

[Eileen_SC]

The family I'm playing right now are the Monroes. The parents are Cameron and Angela and they have two teenage daughters named Laura and Faith. I don't use the same names over, I mostly just create new ones everytime.

[Julieth]

I have two ways of naming sims. The serious way is to look at the telephone book on my desk and find a nice name that suits their looks and personality. My favorite serious names are Peter, David, Tom, Will...old fashioned names for the boys. I like naming girls more unusual things, like Adele, Claudia, Aasima, Stevie, etc.
The other method is to put together random verbs. For instance, I'm playing a black widow right now named Doormat Hallelujah, and her daughters are named Pepperpot and Cable. My favorite family with stupid names is the X family. The mother and father are Exultation and Rumination, and their son and daughter are Clarification and Tribulation.

[SadSam]

Names I have used...

Boy's:
Mike
Robert
David
Mark
Kaden
Cameron
Craig
Nathen
Gabriel
Isaac
Philip

Girls:
Cathrine
Amy
Brooke
Janie
Emma
Olivia
Hailey
Michaella
Taylor

[tonyaj7]

I usually give my sims plain names like Michael, David, Joseph for the boys and Michelle, Anne, and Mona for the girls. Their last names are plain too like Johnson.

[Bad Kay]

Girls

Grace
Annika
Jane
Ruth
Mary
Nana
Marthe
Berthe
Louise
Astrid
Katelijne
Shania
Laura
Maureen
Flo
Melanie
Hazel
Diane
Mabelie

Boys

Jacob
Maurice
Gust
Lander
Klaas
Hunne
Björn
Obi
Memphis
Elvis
Emeric
Michael
Peter
Kenji
Fred
Romeo
Hugh
Moris
Maan
Miles

[HowOriginal]

I'm trying my hand at a legacy at the moment, so I'm naming my sims in alphabetical order to keep track of the generations.

Legacy Founder Ava Legacy, married to Manuel (townie)
Three daughters named Blossom, Brianna and Bryony, Blossom has twin boys with Darren Cho who she met at uni, Caleb and Connor.

I know i'm only up to gen 3 but I have lots of names in store for future generations i.e Daisy, Damon, Elen, Ethan, Fern, Freddy, Grace, Garret, Harriet, Henry, Isaac, Isabel, Jason and Jodi.

[1306]

So far, all the names I've used on my sims are:
Women:
Yvonne
Alicia
Lani
Denise
Suzie
Jennifer
Hannah
Mary Mack (seriously)
Sheila
Princess
Diane
Beatrice
Katrina
Dylan
Gretchen
Samantha
Frankie
Mary
Martha
Mona
Lisa

Men:
Sam
Owen
Patrick
Shawn
Adam
Phil
Mark
Mac
Phyllis
Jonathan
Shaman
Larry
Harry
Jimmy

Last Names (And some pretty weird ones):
Drizz
Verne
Euphoria
Tyrone
Freeling
Green
Dutch
Magdalene
Lawton
Agatha
Mardi

[indalu10_SC]

My favorite family is the SUNG family.
The dad is Jeremy Sung. The mom is Carii Sung. The kids are Daria and Ivey. Ivey`s a boy. Daria and Ivey are both kids at the moment. They have an older sister named Sharie. She got married to Orlando Centowski [[they met at college. Ha]] and they have one child : Lisette! She`s a toddler.
Fortunately Sharie`s little family live separate. Jeremy hates Orlando.


Umm... my favorite names are usually Continents/Countries, since my name is one! [[India]]. The ones I use the most are Africa, Asia, India, && Aussie. If its a big family I just use the Family Creator from MikeInside.

[ce17521_SC]

Well, I don't have a lot of variety right now. Naming just goes on a whim..no real theme. Nyestaville only has two families right now and a couple of single sims. I don't really have any favorite names.

The Tourney family consists of:
Phillip
Maria
Vivian
Aurora
Abigail
Marek(father is Ian Vindiscar, not Phillip)
Marissa
Rachel

The Santeros family is:
Gerard
Mab
Ethan
Timothy

My single sims are:
Ian Vindiscar
Narcissus Umathe
Quinn Whitman

[IntrepidLlama]

My favourite family to play is made up of BriAnna DeBarbarak, her daughter Audrey DeBarbarak and her son Gabriel DeBarbarak, and her adopted twins Akina and Takai DeBarbarak.

Some popular first names in my game are Gabriel, Noah, Julian, Jonah, Jordan, Issac, Ivan, Charlie, Jasper, Eli, Xavier and Liam for boys; Rayanne, Elenora, Felicity, Elia, Katya, Imogen, Isabella, Emilie, and Orchid. Last names I use frequently really depend on the family theme (Gothic, Medieval, ect), but a few of them include Harrows, O'Donahugh and Hollingsworth.

[Loco]

The names i'm using waaaay too much at the moment?

Amaryllis, Ky & Zane.

Amaryllis! *bounces* I have an RP character called Amaryllis (Ama), she's basically... me. Only shorter. So I get confused whenever I see anybody else using it. :D I love it, though, it's a beautiful name!

I tend to use different names for each sim, I get confused otherwise. But I have really weird systems...
For families who are only going to have a few kids (say, 1-3), I take the first letter of each of the parents' names, and find the letter exactly inbetween. The name of the first kid starts with that letter. Say they're going to have another two kids... it gets 'quartered', so the letter between the first letter of the oldest kid's and the first parent's name, then the same but for the other parent. If that makes any sense at all.
The other system is, with big families, the kids' names start with the same letter as one of their relative's names. That one's easier. :P

I'll list a couple of names later - suppertime! :D

[Bad Kay]

Forel Family
April
Talin

Schmidt Family
Hunter
Anna
(Demi, but she's Maxis')

Those are the people living in my selfmade neighborhood. There hasn't been a baby boom recently as you can see...

[gazania]

Hmmm ... we both try very hard not to use the same first name twice, though we've accidentally done it.

I've used gemstone names for first and last names (Amethyst, Topaz, Diamond), flower names as first names (Lily, Violet), favorite musician names (Tomas, Guy, Paul, Noel and Liam, and Gallagher as a surname, though not Noel's or Liam's!) started a few Zodiac names for last names (Aries, Taurus, Gemini). I've used herb names for surnames. (Wintergreen, Basil, Cinnamon, Beebalm.) I've anagrammed a couple of surnames. (Danzer). I use a LOT of names from baby name websites based on particular characteristics. A blonde Sim might have a name meaning "golden", for instance. Many Sims have names of family members and friends. Oh, and many of my Sims have seasonal last names ... Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

My largest family is the Summer family. Rebecca and Guy are the matriarch and patriarch of that crew. They have twelve kids ... I think. At least three or four of the kids have married and have grandkids of their own. Most are single, a couple are still in college, and three live at home. I haven't even counted how many kids and grandkids there are in total! :)

[~RAZI3L~]

My legacy family I guess you would call it is The Songs.

It all started with the girl I made: Kiwaley Dzieciol

I made 3 Song siblings: Chi Song (m), JaeJoong Song(m), and Lime Song(f).

Chi Song married Kiwaley Dzieciol, they had 3 kids:
Ch'un Song(m), Mao Song (m), and Chi Yang Song (f).

Ch'un Song marries Ophelia Nigmos who have a male child named Hsi Sheng Ell and have one on the way as of right now.

Mao Song marries Renee (maiden name I forgot) and have 2 male children: Chueh Ts'un Len and Ching T'ai.

Chi Yang Song marries Gordon the delivery guy and has one male child name Raphael Lee.

My family keeps having male children. I don't know why lol

[conclude]

I use various forms of Elizabeth way too much.
(As in Elise, Alyssa, Beth, Elsie, Isabel, Liz, Liss, etc.)

I do have a Sim in every neighborhood by the name of "Adelyn Ellis" though.
She's my favorite. ^^

[Lina_SC]

My legacy family: Dean Spirit (he's indian) and his wife Peyton Spirit (she's white). I'm only saying this because it makes for gorgeous kids! Their oldest son is named Craig Spirit. Their middle daughter is named Ely Spirit and their youngest kid is named Echo Spirit. She's a girl.

[Derange]

Vlad LaCroix
Cyd Deshere/LaCroix
Raphael LaCroix (RIP)
Balfour LaCroix

Silas LaCroix
Naomi Kritzinger/LaCroix
Imogen LaCroix

Blair LaCroix/Wyatt
Travor Wyatt
Rylie Wyatt
Trot Wyatt

The LaCroixs are fond of giving their children unique names and dislike the common ones.

[kazu]

I usually use The Sims 2 Family Creator made by mike at http://mikeinside.modthesims2.com I love it there are lots of different names! http://mikeinside.modthesims2.com/family/index.html

[AxelValentine]

If I'm having a really hard time coming up with a name I just go here. (http://www.behindthename.com/random/)
I don't do themes either. Usually if I do anything special to a name it's when I mess with the spelling.

[hel0rz]

I was playing with my first legacy family [got up to Gen4 and my laptop bust!] and I use supernatural skintones (mostly ones by Enayla). They were the Myth or Spirit family, so I used names of mythological animals, Greek Gods etc.

Spirit Family: Hades, Oceanus, Pegasus, Selkie, Chimera, Flame, Salamander, Siren, Hex, Saturn, Glory, Leviathan, Phantom, Chaos, Incubi, Deity, Knowledge, Pixie etc.

I think these names are beautiful and unique, but I admit I use 'Hex' far too often.

[Captain Teague Sparrow]

As of current, I have 3 large families:
Starkly:
Adam Starkly
Sussanah Starkly
Alkexander Starkly
Sylvester Starkly
Amelia Starkly

Lafont Family:
Javier Lafont
Miranda Lafont
Lucien Lafont



Vishnikov Family:
Vladimir Vishnikov
Veronika Vishnikov
Viktor Vishnikov
Viktoria Vishnikov

And singles- Sammy Sparazzi, playboy artist, and Markov Chaine, maniacal Cult Leader intent on causing trouble for everyone else in the neighborhood

[fleesh]

I started a new neighbourhood a few weeks ago and these are all the sims in it at the moment.

Seamus Verona
Ruby Verona
Kyal Verona

Felix Mort
Peaches Mort
Belle Mort

Singles
Minnie Six
Harmony Prospero
Zak Trollop
Ava Flare
Jochabelle Palm
Florian Darling

[Essa]

My main family is the de Scie family started with Adam (RIP)

Like the LaCroixs, the de Scie are fond of giving their children unique names and dislike the common ones.
http://forums.sims2community.com/showpost.php?p=696411&postcount=74 (5th and 6th generation)

[leighthesim_SC]

i like 'J' names for some reason, jo , jason, jackie ect. but i don't stick with familys much i get easily distracted ( i also name sims by combinign people in my classes names

[Valentine_SC]

Most of my sims have ordinary names like George, Peter, Becky. But sometimes I go overborad with names like Aurora, Anderson, or Telemachus.

I also like names that aren't gender-specific or switch genders, so in my game I've got a guy named Gretchen, and a girl named Ryder.

[AngelFrouk]

I deleted my old neighbourhood and made a new one. Here are the names of my main family:

Gen. 1: Hermione and husband Stuart
Gen. 2: Edrik, Sarah and Sam
Gen. 3: James, Kiki, Finn, Jess, Kristian, Dominic and Jenny
Gen. 4: Ian and Martin

[pieridae]

I love Italian names...they sound so romantic and flowing to me, but my favorite of all time was Bella Donna DiPotere. Since her there has been:

Isabella
Maria
Isadonna
Eliza
Mirabella
Bianca
Allesandra
Phebe

[daltonism]

My favorite family (The Hughs)
Cassandra : Mom
Samuel : Dad
Cassam : Son
Sandy : Daughter

My most played family (The Fordes)
Jean : mom
Hugo : dad
Ella : daughter
June : daughter
Cori : grandson
Cai : son
Sue : grandaughter
Jean : great grand daughter
Cori : grandson
Gale : great great grand daughter
Jeanne : great great great grand daughter

[Helena224]

The Macbeths are my longest running family, whom started out with fairly traditional names and progressed to the bizarre.

Gen 1 Edward Macbeth / Eurydice Macbeth
Gen 2 Isolde Dour, James Macbeth-Hart, Madison M-H, Ingrid Finn (née M-H), Alexander M-H and Theodore M-H / Verity Macbeth.
Gen 3 Christopher Dour / Eleanor and Ruby Macbeth-Hart / Helix, Panic and Mercutio Macbeth-Hart / Patrick, Murder and Redrum Finn / Ushabti Macbeth -Hart.

I've grown to prefer gender-neutral names, too.

[kirti]

Hi there :)

I generally use names of people I know, such as friends and relatives, when I'm starting out a new family. For example, my legacy founder is Rob Shumaker, after two friends of mine from college.

The names I use for the children come from a few different sources. Some are names of friends and family, some are just names I like. Others are names that I randomly pick in a babyname book.

My favorites so far (and most commonly used..) are:

Girls
Grace (Gracie)
Lily
Lucy
Ana
Scarlet

Boys
Rylan
Nolan
Brady
Isaiah
Micah

My legacy sim, Rob, has married the maid, Kaylynn, and they have twins, Isaiah and Gracie. The twins are children, and they also have a baby named Isaac.

[Wintermute]

I'm playing an alphabet legacy family, and the theme of their family is pi (you know, 3.14159265358979...) with the length of the name corresponding to the digit of pi they fall on--the founder has three letters to her name, the first Sim born into the legacy has 11 letters to his, and so on. Their last name is Perimetron, the Greek word for "perimeter" (the perimeter, or circumference, of a circle divided by its diameter = pi).

My Poverty Challenge founder is named Penny Penury ("penury" means poverty, kind of), and her firstborn daughter is named Millicent :).

Favorite first names for Sims: Lily, Madeline/eleine, Julia, Phoebe. I don't use any names too often because I try to find names that "fit" the family.

Lucidity: Love your family's naming scheme!

[AngelFrouk]

I deleted my old neighbourhood and made a new one. Here are the names of my main family:

Gen. 1: Hermione and husband Stuart
Gen. 2: Edrik, Sarah and Sam
Gen. 3: James, Kiki, Finn, Jess, Kristian, Dominic and Jenny
Gen. 4: Ian and Martin
Next kids from gen. 4: Alistair, Lucy, Simon and Melissa

[MissLCroft]

I can never come up with good names. I allways use names like Smith or Jones or the more common names.

[Lunarsea]

If I have trouble thinking of names I pick the names of places or objects, occasionally food, books and I combine the names of other sims to make an original name.

Usually these days I simply go to a website of names a look at names. I favor sites that have names from all over the world, so then I will end up with a very interesting neighborhood. :D

[TRIriana]

The names I choose, it depends what mood I'm in sometimes, :lol:.

A couple of times I've used names from books - Emerahl, from AUM, is from "The Age of Five" trilogy, and Bannor, from the Two Hearts contest, is a name from the books of "Thomas Covenant."

I had one family that has a few normal flower names - Rose, Daisy. That kind of thing. If I have an alien Sim I tend to use either made-up names that sound "out there" or space-y type of names.

Another family, every offsprings name in the first gen began with a D. One of their daughters continued on a "same letter" tradition, but they all began with B, another A, etc.

Others, it depends on whether my Sim is Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, French, etc. Then I'll use names from those cultures, to stay true to them.

Another, with the characters from a roleplay, whenever they have a child, their kids have names that reflect their parents'. For example:

Mother: Xeia
Father: Mikal
Child: Kaleia

It makes the names unique, because they're original; and it shows automatically what family they come from.

[FABx]

i have so many named it not funny!!

Last Names:

Robin
Eddison
Lucario (yes the pokemon =])
Garcia
Henadez
Fernado
Geno
Tidus

Female Names:

Roselina
Brooke
Eliza
Bethanny
Cathleen
Lauren
Cassidy
Vicky
Grace
Ashely
Vanessa
Tiffany
Kairi
Namine

Male Names:

Julian
Xemnas
Jesse
James
Jake
Jamie
Josh
Alex
Kyle
Nick
Chis
Erick
Max
Riku
Sora


Thats all i could think of right now but there are so much more lol!! ;)

[oceanborn_SC]

Favourites: (used many times)

Surnames:

Fortuna
Milson
Pickle


Male:
Eric
Jericho
Milton
Jeffrey
Milo
Arcturus
Orion
Jethro


Female:
Luna
Cassandra
Miranda
Leah



(It's really difficult since the names in my game aren't always names I personally like. I think about what kind of style my sims will like. I wouldn't have named the child of the Curious brothers "Jane" and I wouldn't have named Daniel and Mary-Sue's child "Arcturus Orion").

[sweet_alice]

I have always liked the name LIESEL and THOMAS. I love the last name Wentworth and Wellington

[Misty_SC]

Hmmm. Mayhaps you'd like the list of names in my alien neighborhood. :D

I haven't had a lot of time to play so lately when I have it's been there. I just fixed my regular game so I can play in it for a while. I need some green for a while--the space hood has lunar terrain. :P

The neighborhood is Quadrant 3. There are humanoid type aliens in Quadrant 3 that have come from some very strange places. One entire group was on their way to an important conference when they crashed there. They found themselves an old bunker-type building and have been holed up until they can figure out a way to get off the planet. They're a rather backward race and are afraid to explore much to see what's happening around them and aren't even aware there are quite a few other beings already living on the planet. They stay in their bunker all the time. Their names are Zork, Zula, Faylma, Feldar, Cron and Crayel Starza.

Zephraim Zui was sent to this planet for therapeutic reasons. He's severely agoraphobic and won't leave his house for anything, either. Occasionally he walks out the front door and looks at the weather and he collects his mail and pays his bills. He doesn't even want to go and get the newspaper. His therapist works with him through his computer.

The Thanas, Camb and Klaa families came to Quadrant 3 from a far off place because of the potential wealth on the planet. Their goal is to try to take over financially, and so far they're on the right track. Rand Camb is only a teenager yet he owns the only privately-owned business on the planet. Vardok Klaa just married a smuggler by the name of Androicia.

There are many Townies as well: Cuz Cosmi, Franesse Beeblebrox, Gal'Lax, I'Aysha, Igyo, Jellendria, Jennail, Kalesta, Keval, Landreth, La'Larea, Magnas, Mandolin, Maylor, Oria, Plagenet, Renthoreth, Rokobo, Sifer, Stel'Lar, Tagmeth, Tarah, Trillian, Xuaraguan, Yesmeth, Zaphod, Zephyr, Zham, Zoren, and Zuider.

There are more names to be sure--I'm just too lazy to type all of them right now.

[Naz]

I usually use the following names for my sims:

- Elisa
- Lily
- Lisa
- Rocky
- Ricky
- Lana
- Sam
- Max
- Sarah

I remember yesterday I created a family with Rroog as their last name. I can never think of good last (and first?) names. So I found this site: http://www.xtra-rant.com/gennames/. Might be helpful to others as well!

[Betty Noir]

i get really stuck for names after a bit, a lot of my sims are named for characters in books, or authors. Once i looked at the names of all the game designers in one of our PC games for ideas. there i found the name Jirka Dell'Oro-Friedl, which i just thought was fab, and throught breeding i now have loads of Dell'Oro-Friedls. I'm in love with Japanese culture, so a lot of my sim families seem to be Japanese (stole many of those names from battle royale). I have a thing for giving girls a name which is often reserved for boys, or naming boys with a name which often would be a surname. also, sometimes i name them after whatever day of the week they were born, or maybe if they were the third child they'd be called Trinity or similar. One of my sims had a baby in mid-winter and i called the child Winter Snow. other than that i tend to use these names a lot:

-Dallas
-Ella
-Ava
-Ruby
-Lola
-Henderson
-Peter
-Holly
-Hershey

[Modestgurl88]

They all have similar names like Phillip,Anne,Elizabeth,etc. I really need to buy a baby name book for some new ideas for names. Last names are usually after objects like Moon,Tree,Flower and colors

[sesshomarusgirlplayer]

the most common name i use for last name is Heap and Deleaf. i have a hard tme with male names im still looking for good ones but the one female name i use a lot is AzAriel because it has part of of my name in it

[Noir]

I can neverever think of last names.
My 3 favorite families are Simmons, Parker, and Cameron. Creative, eh?

Girl Names: I love naming girls
Sahra
Sayre (NOT say-ree. it rhymes with pear)
Rynne (rhymes with pin)
Riley
Kylar
Scarlet
Kenley
Georgia
Aly
Kensi

Guys? Not so much.
Cameron
Oliver
Vik
Kendam (don't ask)
Ryle
Callum
Landon

[Zavi]

I use behindthename.com if I'm stuck for a name, or else I just use something I like/means something that usually relates to the Sim. Some of my favorites:

-Eustathios
-Thanatos
-Naomi (Naomi and Thanatos are names for more morbid sims - or in this case, pets - who are paired together in some way.)
-Illia (Not really my style, but meh)
-Marius
-Maria
-Mazini (Last name)
-Minali (Last name - meaning fish, I believe)
-Basil
-Marnina
-Cantina
-Royce (Cantina and Royce are always paired together!)
-Ronan

I have lots of other names, but those are the very main ones I use.

[Vengeance_SC]

Male
Harrison (Harry)
Milo
Theodore (Theo)
Leonardo (Leo)
Finley (Fin)
River

Female
Renate
Everlyn
Scarlet
Sophie (Soph)
Ruby
Becca (Rebecca)
Paris

Surnames
Raven
Ryder
France
Saudi

I always like to name them after cities or flowers or something like that. However some are also names I would really like to call my children like "Everlyn" and "Finley". Surnames are normally quite random, they are just four I have.

[Apis4]

I usually just stick to everyday English names, occasionally something with a deffinite Welsh, Gael or even Manx flavour, sometimes Scandanavian (my mothers people are all English and Scottish, my Dads are Scottish for the last couple of hundred years, but for centuries before that, all his people were Vikings: Hence my Viking surname).

But some times the random computer generated Sims give to me, through CAS or as Townies/Hoodies/Students will be so screwed up, that I just have to make them progenitor of a legacy of degenerates.

Like I have the 'Snortch-Blarrrpz' family.

Originated from a Sim lady who moved into my Sims college Dorm.

Lucy. She would always make the worst choices of social interactions, thus always get rejected, she was anoying, and was always teased, would often try to pick on other Sims, in desperation for attention, only to have them slap her til she cried, kick her butt or just laugh in her face. She was fat, ugly and stupid, she was lazy, she stank, she worried all the time, any object that could break, blow up, or start a fire would do so when she used it (dont know how she didnt die), would ofetn spoend her time randomly bursting into tears over some issue she had.

All in all she was a pathetic loser who made me laugh, and allowed me to indulge my most evil dark side, if I ever wanted to traumatised abuse or endanger a Sim for some experimental purpose, it was Lucy.

The Up side was she didnt care about living in a messy house, money (she wanted romance), object quality having fun etc etc (she just waated to whoohoo and be loved, by anyone, her gender bias was pretty even, but even with both genders to chose from she always got shot down HAHA!)


So I created a Husband for her, Glorpk, also a pathetic loser.

They had five children, and they all now have families of their own, full of horrid little scumbags just like their grandparents.

They have names like

Spankums Grubbyminge Zronky and her husband Fungus "Like Cousins" Zronky

Mollype Pollyp Mouldsweat, and his two sisters, Loopy Stains, and Heffer 'McStumbles'

There is also the Bimblesquiggies: Namfoodle, Blympootin, their children Ehllibomptin Leakydress, Lungfish, and Garbadge Day (Twin boys, one looked like a Lung Fish, the other did too, but they were born on Garbage day as well).



Get the picture, when ever I get a Random PC generated Sim that is the diamtric opposite to this, I also of course have to give them befitting names, like Allegra, Jet or Paris, but that craps easy, just pick up a copy of Soapie Magazine, or Dolly, you know.

Much harder to come up with loser name that truely encapsulate just how much of a pathetic degenerate my useless, Borat would say 'Big Retardt' Sims are.

[Elven Moon]

I go with whatever strikes my fancy at the moment, and usually I try to go for names that aren't common. Sometimes I get caught up in themes, especially if the Sim or Sim parents are, say, very trendy, or nerdy.

For example, Briar Rose Clearcalm named her first daughter Aurora. And Briar Rose's brother, Linus, named his son Rerun ;)

Other names I've used:

Megan
Sandy
Paul
Diamond
Rock
Yuusuke
Beauford
Rebecca
Mari
Journey
Quest
Prescott
Madison
Greg

Last names I've used:

Clearcalm
Peloquinn
Oldme
Maudels
Pinkland

[funkyfroggy]

For some bizarre reason I use Bob alot!

[Kaeru_SC]

I use fairly normal names, though I'm not sure how generic they are (I usually do British and American names although I'm a Finn).

Some of my favourite sims:
Kati Matos
Cressida Carr
Siobhan O'Flanaghan
Liam Tinderdale
Rory Carr
Michael Wilkes.

My longest lived legacy was founded by by Morris Lockheart, who had Darcy and Dali with Marylena Hamilton. Darcy married a blonde cheerleader and had Charles, Cecil and Cherry. He also had, umm, three illegitimate children me thinks. Cecil had three children with Kaylynn Langerak and two with Lauren the pizzagirl, but I cannot remember what their names were, except the one that became the heir, she was Echo, and her daughter, the heir was Fiona. Darcy, Cecil and his eldest son were all romance sims, even though their aspirations were of course decided by dice. :D

My current legacy founder is called Fiona Maple, she married Joel Jefferson and they have twins, Echo and Eden.

[Cassadaga]

I'm a terrible last-namer, I usually go to a census page and pick a number, and just use that one. :lol: And it's not that I'm bad at giving my Sims first names, I just take an incredibly long time to decide on one. I can have the game paused for 2 or 3 hours while I look for a name. :err:

Favorite names:

Noah
Brin
Haleigh
Lindie
Antonio
Russell
Sersia (sur-sha)
Esme
Adam
Laura
Sergei
Molly
Jeremy
Leah
Rosalind


In my new neighbourhood, I'm going to include middle names when I name my Sims.

[ateKna]

Well, I have so many good first names, and I have an unhealthy amount of sims which I have successfully given all different names. Last names are harder to contrive.



Right now my favorites (last names) are:

Avelaine
Le Tallec
Irevles
Yuki
Nakatani
Assunção
Avshahal
Valentine

Hmm, there are so many more, but I can't think of them when I am away from my game.

[Sabbylicious]

i just think of something random like....

i have the Buy U A Drank (song by the amazing TPain) family :P

The grizzly family with a girl named Mexican Nightmare (shes white tho, lol)

The Masta family (cuz the main guy in it is named Pimp, get it? Pimp Masta. :P) it includes a "pimp" and 3... female workers, and Pimp's daughter Margarita :)

Then theres the Bloo family, with Niceman (guy), Train (woman), Wayne (Train's daughter), and Plane (niceman's daughter) :P

[kimussims]

I choose pretty normal names.

For my self sims children I generally use:
Dominic
Micheal
Grace
Amaris

Sims I have in game:
Donovon Family; Trey(Dad), Isla(Mum), Kylie, Joanne, Patrick, Craig (Trey's brother).
Hewson-Dinello Family; Seamus(Dad), Paul(Dad), Elise, Sienna, Leon, Kit, Eliana, Kara, Geoff
Karen Britch,Jack Grey, James Green (Roommates)
Simon Crostley
Jaques (I forgot his last name)
Marc Williams, Anderson Cooper (Roommates)
Casper-Jase Taylor
Marcus De Monte


There are more but they are the main sims I play

[daltonism]

Male names
- Felix
- Olive
- Gabrielle
- Sean
- Noel
- Alex

Female names
- Olivia
- Noelle
- Alex
- Adelle

[logynomy]

Some of my sims' names:

Top Hat Eric Larsen
A celeb chef who, you guess it, wears the top hat. He's a Lothario who's bedded half the 'hood women. He is also responsible for the very first pair of twins I had in the game - from an illicit affair with ChaeYun Kim-Gunn, the exotic wife of soldier boy Tommy Gunn.

Preacher Bob Priestly
Another playboy, responsible for woohooing the other half.

My very first family ever; the very first time I played The Sims 2; was the Leung family. Daddy Tony, Mommy Esther, son Jackie and daughter Jenny. Tony made Mayor and Esther reached the top of the Business career. Together they cheated Landgraab off a trucking deal, haha.

All of them got wiped out when my PC's harddisks crashed. In my current hood, the Leungs and the Gunns (now the Bradleys) have been recreated. The resident Casanova is now a certain Don Bronson, robot manufacturer and brother of robot selling proprietor James Bronson. Their brand 'Bronson Bots' dominate the hood.

[Son_of_Mumo]

I use alot of names such as O'Connor, Birch, Copeland etc...

[Lottie._SC]

I just take characters out of books, on the TV, celebs that have been on the news alot or i mix two names together, or spell the name differntly
Example-
Alice
Allis
Aliice etc etc

[keef1973]

I called my cat Cooking Fat

[keef1973]

Mostly I use Writers, Poets and Artists .

[funkyfroggy]

Keef1973 please don't double post use the edit button instead.

[keef1973]

Ooops sorry I'm new here

[WooHoo]

Girl names:
Calliope
Lorianna
Delilah
Magdalena
Adelaide
Sage
Sasha
Kelly

Boy names:
Ovid
Sylvester
Nicolas
Roger
Joshua
Darryl
Dennis
Dylan... I guess I like D names.

[oceanborn_SC]

In my Strangetown now (descendants of maxis sims and custom):

Curious (children of Vidcund and Circe)
Ford (m)
Leia
Ruby


Curious (children of Pascal and Nervous)
Antares (m)
Alan (adopted with maxis name)
Altair (m)


Curious (children of Lazlo and Crystal)

Zooey
Seth
Cassily


Schaffer
(don't remember her name)
Eric
Hilary
Amberly

Kim (children of Robert and Cynthia)
Justin (maxis one)
Alexis (f)
Devon (f)


Grunt (children of Buzz and Lyla)
Tank (maxis)
Ripp (maxis)
Buck (maxis)
Yvonne


Loste (child of Ajay Loner and Kristen Loste, also known as Kristen Singles)
Marietta

[Spoonerism_SC]

I tend to use names of authors, models, and characters. I'll also look through magazines and see if I can find a name. Or I'll just look around my room when I'm very braindead and whatever word comes up I'll use in some variation.

I'm also obsessed with French names for my sims.

[qtpie3552]

These are some favorite names I have used for my sims.

Girls:
Melissa
Jennifer
Jessica
Auviana
Amira
Laney

Boys:
Robert
James
Michael
John

Last Names:
Ramirez
Montgomery
Johnson
Phillips
Larson

[shiggityshwa]

This thread is awesome. It's so nice to see what other people are doing about names.

I'm in generation 8 in the legacy challenge so names are starting to become few and far between. But I always have names that I use over and over.

Last Names
Champion
Dagger
Bain
Prescott
Lockhart
Browning

For first names I usually have one way before hand for either a boy or a girl, and the names are usually really distinct. Next up for a boy is Rudyard and for a girl is Aeryn. If I pick a very common name, there's a reason for it, usually I name the sim after a TV character, which I do a lot of the time.

Boys Names
Riley
Finn
Alex
Chance
Everrett
Emmett
Schyler
Tracer
Malcolm
Sam
Noah
Abraham
Lyndan
Lavelle
Milo
Micah

Girl's Names
Clear
Anya
Parker
Evie
Emma
Delilah
Stokely
McCoy
Tierney
Abby
Dita
Ace
Hayden
Calamity
Wisely
Loxley
Wilde

when thinking of uncommon names, I either switch the genders, make last names first names, think of a descriptive word I like, think of a character I like, think of a song I like, Or sometimes they just come to me out of nowhere.

[Purplepaws]

I pretty much stick to semi-common names, but there is one family I made that followed a unique theme. The Citrus family- Fruites, Limone, Lyeme, Mandarine, and Kumquat. They got deleted with my last reinstall, though.

[mellimello]

Females
Audrey
Anais
Ava
Brigitte
Carrie
Eliana
Grace
Hannah
Haylee
Lisette
Miriam
Naima
Noella
Onyx
Pauletta
Sarai
Sarah
Taryn
Uli

Males
Adam
Braeden
Cale
Cole
Davide
Gregory
Michael
Noah
Nolan
Orion
Paolo
Quincy
Ryan
Samson
Sutter
Tim
Trance
Yolan

Last Names
Ayers
Bradley
Dorchester
Friar
Gonzalez
Greene
Holander
Meyers
Nunez
Paulson
Rhine
Winters

My Legacy Family was the Winters family and after the 3rd or 4th generation, I started to name all the kids after planets (Jupiter, Neptune, Venus) and different mythological characters (Aphrodite, Artemis, Daphne, Gaia, Hermes, Juno, Persephone, Selene).

[crazyalien8]

I know I mix and match names from TV shows actors I was previously watching that night. Sometimes I'll mix the characters in the show's name with an actor's name, such as:

Derrick Walsh. Cookies to everyone that know where that name came from. ;D

Also, I was cooking and my sister had mentioned okra, and I thought it would be a cool name. So I'm planning to make a clan of sisters named: Okra, Oatmeal and Honey O' Tarian. (last name was based of the word vegetarian)

[claudia777]

Worcester Family
Adele
(children of Adele)
Salem
Juliet
Jared
Jesse
(children of Salem)
Evie
Cerise
Morgan
Rosalie
Wendy
Jasper

Broke Family
(children of Brandi, with three different husbands)
Criss
Amelia
Seth
Summer

Larson family (children of Jason and Nina)
April
May (I know, I'm really lame)

Burb family (children of John, with two different wives)
Avri
Claudia

Noire family
Vendetta
(children of Vendetta)
Amaryllis
Apollonia
Skyler


Those are the main ones. They mainly come from books, movies and TV: Seth and Summer are from the OC, which was on when Brandi had twins. I got Cerise from a bottle of Black Cherry Soda-- it was turned on the french side, and it said "Cerise Noire," which is where I got that surname from as well. Vendetta was from V for, Jasper and Rosalie were from the book Twilight, April and May were... well, duh; and Apollonia was from the Godfather.

[markusrandall]

Sometimes I'll look at my mom's gardening books for names.

[dancehallqueen84]

Let's see, my names aren't so creative, so far I have:

The Blacks: Marcus, Sarah, and Johnny (Johnny's named after his granddad, Jonathan Burb. Marcus is married to Lucy).

The Johnstons: Sage, Grier, Valentina, Cadence, and Brynn

The Kilches: Ennis, Lindze, Evan, Eric, and Eden

The Rhodes: Marianna, Aubrey, and Genevieve

The Torres: Danny and Deanna

[Color Guard Princess]

Lol um I have seriously a weird taste in names here are my 5 most recent families

Swanson: Zariella & Kayleigh (sisters)
Falleta: Kateryna, Aiden, and Mischa
Johnson: Tsarina, Calub, Jakkob, Lianna
Walker: Robyn, Cam, Adam, Melisa
Cross: Krystyn

haha i like Tsarina the best... Tsarina is a Russian Princess which makes me so tempted to name the next child Anastasia...

Melissa

[Lollipop_Girl]

;) I have a sim called "Grandmaster Ramrod". My neigbourhood is special.

But usually I either stick to classic English names, foreign names (depending on where the sim is from) or mythological names.

[Ghanima Atreides]

LMAO Lolli, dare I ask? Grandmaster Ramrod sounds vaguely naughty ;)

Names I have...

Ladies:

Catriona
Moneta
Aeode
Alessa
Valeen
Miral
Faye
Simone
Valentina
Eleonore
Merope
Aenea
...etc

Gents:

Tristan
Ash
Hype (Hyperion)
Heathcliff
Gabriel
Ted
Sean
Anthony
Jason
Jonathan
...etc

Last names:

Falconbridge
Loveless
Traumer
Tekk
Brewster
Gillespie
McCarthy
Griffith
Renard
...etc

So, I usually pick either obscure, little known, or classical names for my sims. Sometimes I go with more ordinary ones, too.

[paigeyt]

I tend to look at common names in England to help. I never name them after people I know though. Last names, sometimes something I hear off of TV or lists again.

Last:
Reddin
Hall
Legacy[I'm SOO creative]
Brettin

First:
Skyler
Keegan
Nathan
Guss
Annika
Lexy
Spencer
William

[Boioi]

Hehe I found a funny method for getting names.
I thik everyone of you knows the spam which you get daily. So before I delete the spam I just look at the adressor's names and write them down. Then I mix the names or if they sound good I use them. You see, you can even made the useless things a bit useful.:D

[Lollipop_Girl]

LMAO Lolli, dare I ask? Grandmaster Ramrod sounds vaguely naughty ;)


You're not wrong there ;)

[Frenchie]

Ok, trying to show some variety there :D

Males:

Oztal (Xk'krylg'hnreblvian alien)
Yliopëxunox (Xyliriaxon alien)
Farouk
BabySugaDaddy (chav)
Midnight (son of two Enayla sims...)
StackPointer (Geek alien)
Xavier
Pierre-Lionel
Cream (Ball joint doll)
Valentin
...etc

Females:

Ymn'ixxu (Xk'krylg'hnreblvian alien)
Earth (daughter of an alien couple)
Julie
Bootileesha (chav)
Nathalie
SharedDocs (Geek alien)
Splynntarsêl (elf)
Marie-Anne
Véronique
La Pomme (apple!)
...

Families:

Neebtadrizk
Geek
X
Duchemol (= What's-their-name)
Greenthumb
McNinja (yes, the webcomic one)
Filchard
DaChav
...

[Lollipop_Girl]

La Pomme (apple!)


:p I love La Pomme...such a weird thing to have a sim of an apple.

[SundaySim]

I usually try to follow a theme when I create names. In my current legacy challenge the second generation is three children.

there names all start with N (since their father the founder's name started with M):
Norman
Nicole
Nathaniel

all norman's kids name start with O
Olivia
octiva
Opal

Nicole kids are named after states
Texas
Virigina
York (after New York)

Nathaniels Kids are all going to have bible names
John
Mark
and if the thrid one is a girl ruth, boy paul

Last names are:
Adams
Fairchild (Nicole husband was a prof from university she took his last name)

[Nightlight]

Legacy

Hermosa Luz Suarez
dad.. hum.. I don't remember, sorry :P
Beatrisa and Marisol (twins)

My fav female names

Nadia, Sophie, Malesia, Melanie, Francesca, Viola, Michelle, Luisella, Sara, Ornella..

My fav male names

Daniele, Alejandro, Alessio, Jean, Giacomo, Damian, Leonardo, Diego, Noel

Last names...

Damiani, Lover, Monticelli, ecc ecc

[Faithlove13xxx_SC]

Legacy Family Names

Lauren
Kristin
Lucy
Elle
Kaley
Addison
Laura
Grace/Gracie
Rose/Rosa




My real name is Grace Lauren. ; p

[SwitchfootKatie]

Girls:
Katrina (also my own D&D name. yes I'm a geek, get over it)
Milla
Myra
Jenna
Amelie
Kasey
Angelyn
Cassie
Sophia
Jaimie (if I ever have a little girl I will name her this)
Kenna
Andrea
Emily
Emilie
Schuyler (Pronounced like Skyler)
Allie
+ Tons more


Boys:
Jonathan (and NEVER John, always Jon)
Liam
Knate (I got this one from the drummer of Anberlin, who is an extremely good looking guy)
Noah (If I ever have a boy I will name him this)
Aaron
James
Jared
Markus


Surnames:
Johnson
Simmington (for rich heir/heiress, type sims)
Maher (pronounced Moore or Mower)
Potter


I have tons and tons of single women in my towns. I just like playing with females more than males.

[leenetje]

Melody and Jade for girls
Graeme and Dustin for guys
delacour as a last name

[didgerdoni]

I'm hyperventilating over the idea of reusing names. I can't do it. Can. Not. Do. It. Hang on. *breathes in and out of paper bag* Ok, ok. I'm feeling better now, thanks.

I only tried a legacy one time and my drunken gnat attention span kicked in and I wandered off about the third or fourth generation. Trying to remember what I called them. Ok, I had to go look. The founder's name was, get this, Dinah Stee. Captain Dork, at your service. :) I named them based on what generation they were: I did a lot of research to see what names would fit and had written down possibilities for each gen. I have no idea where that list is, but here's what I remember.

Legacy:
Founder: Dinah Stee (I have an unfortunate proclivity for naming by pun. It's sad, it is.)
2nd gen: Twyla (kinda looks like two)
3rd gen: Tertia and Trey
This would be where I lost interest and now I don't remember any 4th, 6th, 9th, or 10th gen names. I'm sure that's a real shame.
5th gen: Quincy, Quentin
7th gen: Seven (heh)
8th gen: Otto, Octavian(a)

General population:
My very favoritest sad pun name was Helena Troy. :D Really, I just can't help myself.

My poor little sim who never gets played and basically lives on the lot where I build temporary sets is named Grace Host. (See? It's really bad.)

My all-time favorite sim is Sabine Harris, named after my home town and my mom's family name. Her hubby is Jackson and their son is Anton.

My favorite family's names are:
Mom: Lisette Adam (ah-DAHM: After my friend's Belgian ex. I just liked the name.)
Dad: Tarik Jones
Son: Adam Jones (but this Adam is pronounced the usual Americano way.)

Then there's:

Cal & Ava McPherson and their daughter Shasta. (They are nature lovers and named her after the mountain.)
Alicia (a-LEES-ee-a) Delgado and her brother, whatshisname, Marco? Mario? Sam?
Susannah somethingorother: don't like her very much and never play her. She's a scene filler.
Cheyne O'Malley: current fave
Mav Hayes: brand new, not even in game yet

Usually, I create the sim first and then let them "tell" me their name. Ya know, something that suits them. I do try to avoid names of people I know. I name my pets by the same method. Maybe slightly nutty, but it works for me. Just ask Milo, Jasper, and Stanley. :D

[IrishGrace]

At the moment, I'm only playing one lot, but it has two families living on it.

George & Nadia Westfield have a son named Julian.
Rufus & Coral Montgomery have a daughter named Gracie.

Julian & Gracie are teens and dating. They'll be married as soon as they become adults.

[Wolfsbane.NightShade]

Currently played Sims in Snobville (yes I know, not terribly creative, but the two families are incredibly rich.) are:

Lion - In order from oldest to youngest
Michael
Marissa
Camryne (Female, Currently at University)
Laelia (Female, twin of Lucius, child)
Lucius (Male, child)
Keegan (Male, child)
Tiernan (Male, toddler)
Hestia (Female, baby)

Callaghan - In order from oldest to youngest
Ciara (Female)
Camlin (Male)
Condon (Male, Twin of Bram, child)
Bram (Male, child)
Adalardo (Male, child)
Dagda (Male, toddler)
Another one on the way. :)

The goal with these two families is to single handedly populate the neighborhood, though I will introduce one or two more families as things progress. Don't want them to get too inbred. :lol:

I've tended to stick with a Roman/Celtic name theme in this neighborhood using mythology books, my own memory and Celtic/Roman baby name lists. Other names I have used are from people I actually know (Liam, Raiscara), names from my own stories (Genessa, Cian) and your basics (Michael, Susie, Tom, Peter etc).

Quick question...what is this "Legacy" I keep hearing people mention?

[Remyohmy]

my current legacy:

Boys
- Christian
- Liam
- Peyton
- Ernest
- Kieran

Girls
- Julianna
- Tia
- Magali
- Felicity
- Jane

[Blazing_Flames]

My favourite names:

Female: Lenne, Lula, Lyra, Lexi, Jana, Carri, Kat.

Male: Dustin, Daniel, Matti, Shii, Alex

:)

[Rissa]

I always decide on the look or ethnicity of the sims which last name they have. I have sims of many ethnicitys in my game:

Amèlie Delacroix, a French girl
Leon, Linda, Lars & Lisa, Lukas Buchholz, a German family
Aryana and Jason Woods, both North American with African heritage
Deniz Sahin from Turkey and her daughters Selin, Nilay and Sule
Li Mei from China
Dina Berkovitch who has Jewish ancestors
Anne Becker from Austria
Sven Bergström from Sweden
Niamh and Fionn O'Sullivan from Ireland with their children Liadan, Sean and Íde

and so on. There are some sites for names, first and last, which are a great help once I decided which nationality my sim should have. There aren't any names I really prefer, I just try to have a great variety.

[Ferret]

I love unusual names for my sims =]

This is my favourite site for names: http://www.jivebabynames.com/

Girls

Art
Tate
Fawn/Faun
Devon
Edit
Delete
Hermione
Grace
Kate
Anna
Mabel
Zoe
Chloe
Olivia
Edwina
Easter

Boys

Ace
Harry
Win
Devon
Denver
Dallas
Iver
Lennox
Leo

[xJOFLx]

I have hardly any Sims in my game,
because i only play when i feel like it.

But i have the Fraudy family at the moment,
and the mum would like 10 Children.
I locked it, and this is their family:

Kevin - Father
Kim - Mother

Fred - Boy Twin
Daphne - Girl Twin
Peter - Brother
Nick - Brother
Donna - Sister.

And i plan to populate them, with MUCH help of the maxMotives cheat,
once the Twins move out, i'll start baby-making again.
xD

[1306]

Some names for Girls:
Eris
Bailey
Hilda
Kylie
Geneva
Millicent
Tina
Ashley
Janus
Adelaine
Allison

[SofieAmalieN]

Usually names from or inspired by the Harry Potter books.

[sims2addict01]

Girls:
Callista
Macy
Ava
Madison
Noelle
Kadie

Boys:
Brody
Max
Howard
Matt
Matthew
Brian
Zach
Sloane

I could think of more.... :)

[bR0Oke_lynn]

Here's a list of some of my favorite names::

Favorite Male Names

Adrian
Aiden
Austin
Brayden
Brody
Bryce
Cameron
Carmine
Carter
Chase
Damian
Dylan
Evan
Parker
Preston
Riley
Ryan
Zachary



Favorite Female Names

Adrianna
Amber
Alexa
Bryn
Caelyn
Cali
Daniella
Dominique
Emma
Jayla
Jocelyn
Kailee
Katarina
Kelsey
Kendra
Mackenzie
Madison
Trista

[stephness]

I suck so bad at naming sims, seriously I do. So far the only semi-creative names that I've come up with, that I really like would be Lilith Taylor and her brother Tripp.

[Flyingjunkk]

These aren't anything fancy, but I've recently been into Biblical Names, Like Noah. Actually, just the name Noah :D
The last few sims i named have been
Paul
Emily
Claire
Noah
John

[cappyboy]

i like 'J' names for some reason, jo , jason, jackie ect. but i don't stick with familys much i get easily distracted ( i also name sims by combinign people in my classes names

Sounds like the Bean family I used to have in Sims 1. Basically they were my take on the Real World except my ultimate goal (never achieved BTW) was to have every male sim hook up with every female sim with as little damage to their other relationships as possible.

The all J name concept came from the old Sesame Street song by I want to say How Now Brown and the Moo Crowd. "J. Joe Jeans and His Jelly Beans."

The eight Bean family members we're Jay, Jo, Jean, Jim, Jason, Julie, Jamal and Jamika. Initially Jay would pair off with Jo. Jean with Jim. Jason with Julie. And Jamal with Jamika as they were the black couple in the house. The other six would be white. Although if I made them in Sims 2, the other six would likely be more racially mixed. Tried to keep Sim creation simple in Sims 1. Never got all the hookups done but was always fun trying. Haven't done them much in Sims 2 though because aging off and cash cheating hasn't been as much fun this time around.

[aryannaface]

My newest legacy family's last name is "Zombie." And for every first name I use an action or description word that would fit in front of Zombie to make it a bit funny.
Right now there is Falling, Limping and Ura Zombie.

I tend to never use the same name more than twice in my neighborhood for my other simmies.
=o

[1306]

More Female Names:
Lisa Marie
Jennifer
Geraldine
Maxine
Sarah
Allison
Demi
Jillian
Grundy
Alicia
Caroline
Marybeth
Reiko
Desire
Fiona
Sadie
Dixie
Ophelia
Sherry
Heidi
Joanne
Yuki
Emma
Wendy
Anna
Thea
Cindy

[Pleasance]

I tend to use old movie stars first and last names:

Girls
Ava
Lana
Faye
Audrey
Greta
Carole

Boys
Lew
William
Clyde
Vincent
Victor


Last names
Astor
Meadows
Bow
Dumont
Lombard
Harlow

I get them from (slightly Morbid) sites like this http://www.seeing-stars.com/Buried2/HollywoodMemorial.shtml

[SofieAmalieN]

Usually names from or inspired by the Harry Potter books.
I finally found time to make a list:

Male names:
Harry
James
Sirius
Remus
Peter
Severus
Serenus
Severin
Vcalentin
Lucius
Draco
Abraxas
Orion
John
Artemis
Romolus
Albus
Ronald
George
Fred
Percy
Bill
Charlie
Arthur

Female names:
Hermione
Lily
Ginny
Luna
Minerva
Molly
Eileen
Padma
Narcissa

Lastnames:
Potter
Weasley
Granger
Dumbledore
McGonagall
Snape
Malfoy
Lestrange

etc...

[DarkestBlu]

I do love giving my sims weird, quirky, or messed up names! In one incarnation of my game, I have a sim named Sal Monella. I've got names like Ralph Bombers, Roy Device... Also, I take names from the news. I was watching the weather channel, and there was this lady named Angela Deputy. Was watching a show about cold case murders and there was this lady named Ro Morse. No lie. When her named showed up on the screen, I was a little confused at first. Then it became almost comical to watch people struggle to not say REmorse!

For my new neighborhood in a pretty much clean game, I'm going with more normal names. My farmer family consists of Blaise and Appolonia (and their twin boys whose names I can't remember right now) Diamond. I had to refrain from naming one son Rich;)

[LegolianM]

I do something different for each family... I like making it seem like they named the kids themselves instead of me. Makes each family a little more individual, they all have something different going on.

With my Dawson family I'm using a D and T theme... all males have D names, all females have T names. So far we've got Drake, Tanis, Damon, Terri, Drew and Tyler. When one of my Stanford men got alien pregnant, he named his daughter Xandria after his husband Alex (if she'd been a boy she would've been Xander). My Kohelet family is all Asian (aside from the fact that Kohelet isn't an Asian name) so their children all have Asian names, and when my transvestite serial killer has the Grim baby I'm planning on him having, I'm sure he'll give him a girl's name, because he's just like that. (He WILL have a boy, even if I have to retry 100 times.)

[princesshaichu]

My source for names differs quite a bit from family to family, but my current favorite family names are the Fey family (admittedly, I did drop the ball on the surname): Father Io, mother Tethys, teenage daughter Europa, teenage son Arcturus, and newly-grown male child Castor. They're all named after stars or moons, which I look up in an astrological atlas I've had since elementary school.

Mythology is always a nice place, too, for me to pick out names; with Norse mythology, you not only get one name, but you get names for generations back and forward. Right now I have the Liesmith family, with Loki, Sigyn, Vali and Narvi. Should Loki feel the need to have more children, there's always a giantess sim waiting to be introduced to give him his last three children (Hel, Jormungand, Fenrir).

[AngelFrouk]

Generation 1:
Rayna and Philip Flether

Generation 2:
Raphael, Morris and Tessy

Generation 3:
Jake, Blake, Airadan, Melda, Nellethiel, Bellethiel, Rinion, Hebion, Verya and Veryan

Generation 4:
Mica, Ivory, Cristal and Jade

Generation 5:
Ally and Billy

Generation 6:
Jess, Mush, Ashlyn and Dylan

Generation 7:
Peter, Parker and Tian

Generation 8:
Donaghue, Morgan and Olivia

Generation 9:
Jackie, Jessica, Joël, Jennifer, Justin, Jasmin, James (Jimmy), Jesse, Jasper and Jill

I can't believe i already got 9 generations. On to the 10th.

[TheSimmer10]

What are your favourite names that you tend to use a lot in your game? What are the names of your favourite families, and your legacy family? Do you have any cute themes that you use?


Right now,,Im playing the Burb family..Lucys dead and her husband but they had 4 kids Payton(boy)Annie(girl)<-They are twins->Alex(boy) and Craig..Im playing Annie and she got married to Brandon Lillard and they had twins Maddison and Bradly

Im going to play Maddison and I hope shes going to have twins!!!!

Bradleys going to have 1 kid!:valentine

My Last name is Lillard

My Favorite

Girl
------
>Madison
>Annie
>Ally
>Allison
>Mary Anne
>Nicole
>Amy
>Sarah
>Avery
>Christina
>Isabella
>Kayla
>Ellie (Elizabeth)
>Grace
>Gabi
>Amber
>Molly
>Alina
>Lauren
>Tonya
>Rebekka or Rebecca
>Mia
>Mae
>Abigail
>Julianna

Boys
-------
>Alex
>Anthony
>Mike
>Dustin
>John
>Nick
>Andrew
>Marvin
>Chris
>Patrick
>Ryan
>David
>Luke
>Payton
>Alex
>Craig
>Bill
>Jason
>Conner
>Tommy
>Kevin
>Ken
>Sean
>Jeff
>Hudson
>Curtis


Wow Thats all i can think of!!:eviltongu


Last names
-------------
Rivers
Banks
Burb
Alloy
Bell
Maltby
Scislowski
Phillips
Beadro
Hed
Wrights
Right
Levvi
Klann
Cooper
Klost
Dril
Hir
Day
Higgins
Richardson
Kareily
Murphy
Steirling
Coszenza
Less
Thomas
Cirillo
Williams
Brookes
O'Rouke
Tran
Matlock
Ramon
Watford
Black
Green
White

Thanks if you read this all:bigwave:

[Starfish of Terror]

Because I'm the kind of person who completely over-analyzes everything, I already have all my sims' lives planned out before their even born. I like to give them names to correlate with their personality, looks, or lifestyles. For example, I like to give gender-neutral names to my more androgynous sims (Perin, Riley, Peyton); classical, romantic names to my romantic sims (Caesar, Aurora, Calista); and wild names to my rebellious sims (Pierce, Roxanne, Shay). Then there's the ethnic names like Mei Ling, Azumi, and Tanishia. I like having names that actually match up with my sims. :]

[AnnetteL]

I pick names that match the Sims look & personality - my current family includes dad David, mom Sloane, twins Tyler & Zachary and little Elizabeth.

[hikamiatemu_SC]

I like to use some variety to the names for my sims (I actually keep a listing of names I've used and names I'd like to use, first and last). I won't choose names that hold some kind of bad feeling for me, and I refuse to use my own name (so there are no little girls running around named "Josie"), but I love the names for everyone that I have in my game right now. Names I've been using are:

Boys
Aaron, Alejandro, Alex, Andrew/Andy, Anthony, Brian, Casey, Charles, Chris, Christien, Cory, Daniel/Danny, Dave/David, Eduardo, Evan, Henry, Jack, Jason, Josh, Lucas, Marc, Marty, Matt/Matthew, Max, Mike, Nate, Noah, Nicholas, Niklas, Peter, Ran, Ron, Ryan, Sam, Sean, Sébastien, Seth, Shawn, Stephen, Timothy, Tom/Tommy, Will/William

Girls
Ashley, Autumn, Candice, Carrie, Chloe, Deborah, Delilah, Denise, Elisa, Ellen, Emily, Harumi, Hilary, Isabella, Janet, Jasmine, Jennifer, Jessica/Jessie, Juliette, Karen, Kelly, Kimberly, Krissy, Lindsay, Lisa, Mandi, Marleen, Maria, Mary, Maya, Melanie, Melissa, Monica, Monique, Rachel, Rose, Sara/Sarah, Shayla, Shirley, Summer, Tanya, Taylor, Tessa, Theresa, Tina, Wanda, Zoe

Surname
Anderson, Andrews, Beaty, Bianchi, Bradford, Bradley, Burkhill, Burns, Clarkson, Connerty, Cooper, Davis, Díaz, Duvall, Emery, Espensen, Fieldings, Fletcher, Florence, Forbes, Greene, Hammond, Hanby, Harper, Hart, Horner, Gheller, Grey, Larson, Levine, Marker, Markson, Marley, Marshe, Martin, Monroe, Moore, Moreau, Moretti, Morrison, Murphy, Pitts, Rhode, Roberts, Rothman, Ruben, Sampson, Sánchez, Sellers, Seymour, Sherman, Smith, Sterling, Thomas, Tilsdale, Timberly, Townsend, Welsman, Whippler, Williams, Wilson, Winchester, Wright, Wrightly, Yamamoto

[yellowrose]

I sometimes use family names but somehow I get stuck on letters too-like if a family has twins, triplets or several kids then often they will have start with the same letter like Megan, Michelle, Michael, Marie.....
I actually keep a little baby names book by my computer and when I want to think of something different then I look in it. I also sometimes really like to make the name something special such as related to the relationship they have or in honor of an elder and so on

[Testudo]

I get names from name-your-baby websites when I am dealing with a 'normal' family. If a family is of a specific ethnic background I often surf through appropriate web sites to find names.
Alien babies have been: Andromeda, Cassiopeia, and Lacerta. The Beakers have had children with obscure mythological names: Eisa and Megaera. Even I can't remember their origins (I think Eisa was a daugther of Loki).

I am absolutely done with creating Sims: any new editions to the world are born into it. Then I name the child according to the imagination (or lack thereof), social standing, and ethnicity of the parents.

[PenChris_SC]

I'm currently playing two families.

The Bimbo Family, Ima and Shena. And yes they are the town *cough* tramps.

And the Addams Family, (Distantly related to the more well know Gomez Addams)
Igor
Gravina
Batilda
Grim
and a cat named Batty.

My kids made another family called the Brothers
Quaint
Lost
Bright
Found
and
Notta

We like to be strangely corny with the naming of our sims.

[Peace]

My Loner Legacy has sucked up a lot of my good names...

Gen 2- Jensen, Korbin

Gen 3- Scott, Scout, Marlowe, Amari, Dante, Xavier

Gen 4- Eli, Oliver, Gideon, Paris, London, Rome, Haleigh, Harmony,
Quinn, Barrett, Steele, Tavaris, Unity, Nikolas, Wish, Willow, Wystan,
Natasha, Yamir, Khadija, Isabelle, Zion, Zander, Amadeus, Davian,
Christopher

Gen 5- Aria, Bryson, Chase, Cree, Dream, Ezra, Farris, Gage, Hayden,
Hadley, Isaac, Jordan, Jeremy, Keenan, kamryn, Leighton, Lillian,
Marques, Naeemah, Orrick, Paige, Quincy, Reagan, Stormy, Taryn,
Uri, Valynn, William, Xaria, Yadon,

[Annette_SC]

I give at least one little girl in each neighborhood the same name as my daughter: Shanley.

[HunterGreen]

I mostly just use average names, throwing in odd ones every so often.
Back in the Sims 1 I had a fellow named Euston Codson who was a complete jerk and very outgoing to boot (he'd stop by his neighbor's houses all the time and pick fights with them - I would see items in their queues like "be shoved"). I have been meaning for a long time to regenerate the Codson family for the Sims 2. I also have a family called the Pi'Reet family, who of course all look like pirates.

Female Names:
Agatha, Allegra, Alice, Alyssa, Amelia, Amy, Anita, Anna, Annabeth, Antheia, Antigone, Antonia, Calypso, Carol, Carolyn, Celia, Charlene, Constance, Cora, Dava, Dionne, Elena, Elyssa, Heidi, Helen, Jaime, Jenna, Jessie, Judy, Kathryn, Kimmy, Kit, Laurie, Lavinia, Leanne, Lex, Lily, Lisa, Lydia, Marti, Mary-Ellen, Mel, Mirabelle, Miriam, Mona, Morgan, Nicole, Quinn, Sarah, Stefani, Vanessa & Veronica

Male Names:
Aaron, Alec, Alfred, Austin, Braden, Calvin, Charlie, Colin, Darison, Davey, David, Douglas, Elliot, Erik, Greg, Harrison, Ira, Jake, James (just realized I have THREE sims named James), Javier, Jayson, Jonathan, Keith, Kevin, Kingsley (named in honor of his father, burglar Gordon King, who fathered *TWIN* ugly children), Kyle, Lafferty, Lawrence, Logan, Luister, Lyrian, Malcolm, Maurice, Miles, Nicholas, Nick, Patrick, Paul, Ragno, Reese, Richard, Rudyard, Ryan, Ryder, Sammy, Sebastian, Spencer, Terrence, Toby, Victor, Vincent & William

Surnames:
Knox, Gray, Van Kirk, Violet, Groves, Walters, Torres, Savoy, Tollemache

(BTW, I am *very* relieved that I saved this post three days ago when I was about to post it for the first time - it took some time to write out all those names)

[1306]

Male:
Andy, Marcus, Marc, Roland, Dan, Daniel, Al, Brian, Red, Mark, Gavin, Harry, Nolan, Theodore

Female:
Therese, Denise, Nadine, Raine, Tammie, Cherise, Allysa, Ursula, Tiffany, Anna, Madison, Barbie, Yolanda, Nattie, Vanna, Wendy

[queenrebecca]

I like to give a lot of my sims wierd names. Most recently: Halloween and Fibrous Root (brothers). There is also Chakra Ramaswami, Sprightly Davis, Lulu Remari, and Ellabelle and Bip Riddli (married) with a son named Zim.

I also like to give them nice, sweet, old fashioned names like Estelle, Lenore, Sylvie, Leona, Sophia, Lola, etc...
And names for the boys?: Remi, Noah, Lyre, Gabriel, Erik, Liam, Loki...

[Simerica]

I like Russian names although I haven't really used that many yet, trendy names and last names as first names. Right now I don't have that many Sims in my game that I've created and named.. so..

Harper Dennis
Her daughters Leyla pronounced Lay-La and Cami Dennis

Marissa Dennis, no relation to Harper just a roommate
Her daughter Tatiana and son Hunter Dennis

Jessica Milano
Her daughter and son Jaycee and Harlow Milano (yes, I got that from Nicole Richie)

Chloe Milano, no relation to Jessica
Her twin boys Cooper and Hayden Milano and youngest boy Jackson

Rommies (all men non related)
Kane Voleri, father of Jessica's kids
Erik Voleri, father of Harper's kids
Marcus Voleri father of Chloe's kids

and for some reason I can't remember the other name of Marissa's kids father but he lives there too. I am setting up for major scandals among all these kids they are having.

[allthatjazz272]

Names I tend to overuse and should stop before my neighborhood gets overpoplated with these names:
Leslie, Rae/Raena, Bailey, Kenley, Laci, Kaci, Carter



Other names I love.
For males:
Liam
Lance
Carter
Cameron
Paris
Garrett
Devon

For females:
Chelsea
Leslie
Laci
Carleigh
Raena
Brianna
Brittnny
Bailey
Hallie
Lillie
Hanna

Last names:
Delancey
Logan
Truscott
Reeth

I tend to like more common names with unusual spelling.

[Haughtysims]

I like to pick a letter and stab my finger at the baby book. It is 'I' time: Ishii, Idoru, Ilian, Ian and Iron.

[Slytherin-Girl]

Babynames.com is my best friend for this kind of thing, I swear!

Right now I'm doing an alphabet legacy (26 gens, one for each letter) and I'm trying to give them more unique names than the generic John, Jane etc. (No offense meant to anyone with those names). So far I have founder Audrey, Gen2 Byron and Beatrix, and Gen 3 Clarissa.

Alien babies tend to get names based on constellations/Mythology (Casseopia, Orion, Leo, Diana etc.) or something heavenly related (Luna, Stella)

I had a couple once, based on an RPG I as in who had 14 kids. The husband was a Shogun, and all their names were either related to warriors/fighting or the dragon god he served.

So basicly I tend to have a theme for certain things and stick with them pretty religiously LOL

[KacoshiAjewl]

right now I am working on a family who I am going to name the children after the elements in japanese sooo far there are...

Shango-Father
Ren-first son
Kai (spirit)- second son
Ten (air)- no place yet male name
Chii (earth)- no place yet female name
Mizu (water)-no place yet female name
Hono (fire)- no place yet male or female name
Yami (darkness)- no place yet male name

[drsalvador]

names i use a few of them though (cant remeber the kids name)

Phil Johnson

Joe "Scar" Johnson

"kid "(cant rember)

[Valerie_SC]

:taekwondo
My favorite so far
Delilah Harlin
Meadow
Adriana
Elyssa
Marcel Boyle [An npc who's married to Delilah :P] :einstein

[dosymedia]

Since I began my new neighborhood, San Jose, I'm working on making lists for the game to generate. It will be comprised solely of Spanish names. I already have a few funky Englishmen walking around and I don't want anymore. xD

Besides that, I have one legacy family named The Spice Family. The founder's name is Ginger. If she has a girl, her name will be Paprika, if she has a boy, then I'm thinking of naming him Thyme. ;]

[DancingSimmer]

I have some unique last names for my sims that I commonly use:

Pribynski
Kalkowski
Collins
Beckly
Harrison
McClyne
Smythe
Adams

Male first names that I commonly use:

Luke
Michael
Mitchell
Johnathon
Andrew
Timothy
Kevin
Kenneth
James
Howard
Liam
Dustin
Nicholas
Darek
David
Jeff
Louis
Zachary
Vincent
Robert
Frederick
Harold

Female names I commonly use:

Angelica
Alyssa
Elvia
Tatiana
Jessica
Jennifer
Katelynn
Pattie
Pamela
Wilma
Kendra
Elizabeth
Gwen
Nikki
KiKi
Mary-Anne
Marissa
Melissa
Jacklynn
Isabella
Rhonda
Erica
Erin

[impossibility]

Well, as of right now on my new desktop I have a family called the Praswells.
I guess I go by "whatever feels good" and whatever comes to my mind.

Latisha Praswell and Leod Praswell had three children.
Baxter, Damion, and Howard. I believe 2 were adopted.
Damion and Howard grew up and went to college together while Baxter stayed behind.
Damion met Daisy, a cheerleader, in college.
Howard met Hailey, a cow, in college also.
Damion and Daisy had one child and adopted 5. They are as follows: Alex, Kyle, Ocean, Amy, Alon, and Beth. Kyle is the only blood child of their family.
Howard and Hailey are focusing on their careers but have just today adopted a child, hopefully they will get a girl and a boy eventually (so all that damn money in clothes didn't go to waste.)

[NaNaGirl_SC]

For some females I like names that also have a meaning in English

Angel
Jade
Camille
Diamond
Jewel
Crystal
Ebony
April
Amber

For males pretty common

Marcus
Chris
Terell
Eric
Darrell
Justin
Jason
Jerome
Mitchell

I also like to combine the name of the parents for a child or name a male child after its mother or female child after her dad.

[michaelajand]

I love naming my Sims after literary characters. I currently have a Haleth (The Silmarillion), an Elanor (Lord of the Rings), an Elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice - although I flatly refuse to name a Sim 'Fitzwilliam' outside of my Regency neighborhood), and an Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass). The names really depend on what I'm reading - after rereading 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', I wound up with unrelated Sims named Peter, Edmund, Lucy, and Susan. I used to have an Estella and a Herbert (both from Great Expectations), Rose (more LotR) and Rowena (from 'Ivanhoe')

I'm toying with the idea of giving a Sim one of the weirder literary names I've come across lately - for example, I'm currently slogging through Moby-Dick for my English class, and I really want to name a Sim Ishmael, because it's a fun word to say.

[Jadzia7667]

What are your favourite names that you tend to use a lot in your game? What are the names of your favourite families, and your legacy family? Do you have any cute themes that you use?

Right now, I have Gary and Christobel Oldman. They're my Legacy Family, but we'll see if I get past generation two with it - lol. Gary Oldman is for the actor of the same name, of course. Christobel is my self sim (that's not my name, though) and her name comes from a character in a book called 'The Last Convertible'. I love that character, so swiped her name for myself. Their daughter is named Selene, because Selene is one of the Moon Goddesses, and it seemed appropriate.

I have Sarah and Mitch Jones, siblings. They are Jones not because I am uncreative, but because I modeled Sarah on a friend of mine and her last name is Jones. Sarah, I chose because it just goes with Jones, you know? Mitch's name was chosen utterly randomly. They've a dog named Hestia, because I was in a Harry Potter mood at the time - lol.

In fact, I use HP character names a lot, now that I think about it. Or derivatives of the same. Flower names for women, downright strange ones for men. I need to make a realistic Minerva McGonagall next, I think. Then I have to decide who to pair her with...Xiomara Hooch or a grown up Harry?

[MexiCali_SC]

My favorite family:

Lucia Valdovinos is married to Julio Valdovinos.

They have four children: Emiliana, Javier, Cecilia, and Marcos.

Other Favorite first Names:
Arturo
Edgar
Rachana
Kmao
Kuntheary
Ignacio
Emiliano
Roman

As you can tell, I love Spanish names. And Cambodian names too!

[Kayla]

My favorite is the Santiago family.

Adrian - father
Karlina - mother
Alani
Jazmina & Elias - twins
Malaya
Liliana & Lisette - twins

I don't know if Karlina's a real name but I really like it. There a girl named Karli on a show I watch called Karlifornia on MTV Tr3s so I did a twist on the her name. Alani is that MTV VJ LaLa's real name, I liked it. I made up Jazmina. I read on some baby names website that Malaya means "free" in the Filipino language - Tagalog, I think? I don't know but I liked it. The others are just names I like a lot.

[nikisazombie]

Hmmm...
Last names- Russell, Moore, Gilmore, Bean, Moses (ha! My maiden name), Carlton (Married name.:P), Carlson, Haven, Carrington

First names (Female)- Cassie, Taylor, Sara, Dianne, Julia, Nik, Rhonda, Rhona...
First Names (Male)- John, Ryan, Tyler, Taylor, Nick...

I don't know. I'm going to start naming my sims odd names like Laptop or something, because I'm tired of the names I use. (ROFL!)

[littlesunshine123xx]

At the moment I am creating my own life on the sims and my friends.

One of my friends wants to marry an American Italian Mafia guy (dont ask obessed she is)
Sonny- Her husband
Antony- Son
Andrew- 2nd son
Sienna- daughter
and their surname is Capello, like the England football manager lol

my self sim married a French Artist called Tristan Bardeau and our children are called:
Louis- Son
Hermione- Daughter
Keira Rose- 2nd daughter.

[neurophobic]

The sims I'm playing now are...

My Legacy
Bridget Thorn (founder) married Pao Thorn (nee Melon) and had...
James and the triplets William, Derek, and Victoria (all named by my boyfriend xD).
James married Marisa Bendett and had Rachel and Clara Thorn.
Derek married Erika somethingorother and had girls Skye and Tulip Thorn.
Victoria married Jan somethingorother (I downloaded a Dutch name replacement mod) and had boys Onyx and Garnet Thorn.
William married Katharina somethingorother and had Marius Thorn.

And.. I haven't been playing my Uglacy or Royalty Challenge long enough to remember everyone's names. xD All I remember is my Uglacy founder's name is Millard Feo.

[discomposed]

Females:
Aurelia
Caterina
Clarissa
Ebony-Echo (my father wanted to name me this, my mother insisted not. boo!)
Feodora
Idalee
Lavena
Lily
Ophelia
Seraphina
Tilua

Male:
Allen
Booker
Chevy
Jacob
Lawrence
Leif
Murray
Oliver
Patrick
Preston
Toby
Warren
Vernon

I also tend to open Baby Names World and use the random name search until I find a fairly unique name I like. It's given me some pretty awesome choices, names I'd have never thought to use on my own :)

[PearlRose]

I have a set of names that I like and I tend to think up characters (or their children!) that will fit my naming desires. As such, I've got a ton of girls running around my neighborhoods, since they're the names I like best.

I've decided to do a heiress-based Legacy challenge (where I make them have lots of girl babies!), since those are the names I like, and I also decided to do each generation in A-B-C order. Later, I decided that 26 generations might be a bit ambitious for one legacy neighborhood, so I made another legacy neighborhood, where I started backwards, with Z-Y-X, etc. Only, I was having trouble coming up with enough X names, so X started that legacy, and then I went back to Z and Y, and W will be the letter for gen 4, putting it back on track.

In ABC legacy (Starr Family), Anita Starr married a townie, Chase, had Bethany and Brenna Starr. Brenna was heiress, so she went on to have Charlotte, Caroline, and Clara Starr. Bethany, since she was the spare, went off and married Nathan Neptune, a CAS YA I had her room with in college. They adopted Sara Allegra Neptune. (I really like the name Sara, but as it's my brother's girlfriend's name, I didn't feel right using the name Sara alone. I thought Allegra went nicely went with it.) And then Bethany later gave birth to Nora Audrey Neptune, since I wanted to continue the two-name trend with her kids, at least.

XYZ Legacy (Mallory family), Xena Mallory married a townie, Joe, and they had Zara and Zelda Mallory. Zara was deemed heiress, and she married and gave birth to Yolanda and Yuki Mallory. Zelda married and became a Violet, before having Stella and Shelby. (I decided to use an S-theme there.) Zara and Zelda also had a brother, Zachary, accidentally, and since he's a romance sim, he's got no plans to settle down yet. Maybe after he achieves his LTW of whoo-hooing 20 sims.

The "extras" in the ABC lot have names plucked from the planets, while the "extras" in XYZ lot and my Asylum challenge family were named after flowers. My "creatures" all were named after natural forcess. Monica Earth, plantsim (She works with the 'earth'.) Miranda Sun, vampire (sun kills her). James Moon, werewolf (the moon transforms him). Jonathan Ocean, zombie, and his alien daughter (given birth to while he was alive, obviously), Lyn (It went with the rest of the theme.) Then there's the Servo, named Asimov after Issac Asimov, what with his famous Three Laws of Robotics.

The next non-related family I create will probably get the last names Earth, Wind/Air, Fire, and Water.

Other sims that I like include the sisters Molly and Samantha Lily, and Molly's girlfriend, Amy June.

[Claire]

Females:
Renee
Rachelle
Clarrise
Cynthia
Amber
Layla

Males:
Jared
Evan
Michael
John
Jordan
Jeff
Chris
Mark

This could go on forever.....

[cassieandra]

I'm toying with the idea of giving a Sim one of the weirder literary names I've come across lately - for example, I'm currently slogging through Moby-Dick for my English class, and I really want to name a Sim Ishmael, because it's a fun word to say.

Theres actually a book I'm reading called 'Don't call me Ishmael!' which is about a boy that was named Ishmael after the moby dick character. Its a completely fictional book btw. Lol

[Sinthe]

I keep a list of names, male and female. When a baby is born, I can never remember what I wanted to name him/her!

[Bree2kool8]

If I want my family to be of a certain descent, I try and find names and middle names to go with the country that the surname originates from.

Example: The Maselli's. They are of Italian descent and dad, Dominic, has 5 kids: Sabrina, Gianna, Natalia, Daniela, Veronica and a boy, Salvatore. When I was playing the entire family that had so many kids and were mixed up so much that I ended up sticking with just Sal's family. Sal had 3 kids and married a woman of Russian/Polish and Irish descent. Their kids were Ava Marie, Corrado Joseph, Dario Nikolai (Polish influence), and Geno Michelangelo. I love adding the middle names! I often try and get creative and often find myself on baby-name websites. When I was playing Ava Marie's family I wanted them to have British names as well as Italian: Aryn Violet, Alistar Gianni, & Coulter Marino. Right now with C.J.'s family I ran out of middle names and just stuck with Italian sounding names: Liliana and Rosalie. Sage came about because I wanted the girls to have "flowery" names and couldn't think of one for a male, so he became a "herb". :)

My Kakura's were my first family and I just wanted cool and unique names. They were supposed to be of Japanese and Irish descent, only their middle and last names reflected the Japanese. I don't recall them off hand but their 1st names were pretty cool: Emerson (oldest girl), Presley, and Dallas.

[Aries66]

I bought a baby name book for my sims,pretty weird huh!

These are some of the last names I use,
Rodriguez,Johnson,Hunter,Taylor,Hilton,Windsor,Perez,Cruise,Winslow,West,Vanderbilt,Haywood,Martinez,Kaplan,there are so many can't name them all.

(A few of the girl names I use)
Sahara
Alexia
Ariel
Moira
Tiffany
Sierra
Ciara
Trinity
Selena
Felecia
Porsha
Lacie
Sayuri
Lyric
Persia
Golden
Beauty
Fawn
Natalia
Friday
Taryn

(A few of the boy names I use)
Jet
Dante
Chet
Carlos
Justin
Zavier
Antonio
Diablo
Jonathan
Tristan
Christian
Adrien

[Winter_SC]

I try not to repeat names that often, cause its get confusing, but my favorite guy's names are Landon and Josiah, and I know I've had several of those. I think I've reused Emma a few times as well. Right now I'm just playing the families that came in Pleasentview, but I can tell you the names of Angela and Dustin's kids! Their first born is Juliana, who is now a teen, and their twin girls names are Sara and Leila, who just started school. :) Ang is full term again, and we're hoping for a boy this time.

[mysimagination]

I keep an ongoing list of names that I like so that I can use them when playing with my sims. ;)

Right now, I'm playing my first legacy family, the Montgomery family.
My founder, Cheyenne, is married to a downtownie named Noah. Together they have two kids, Aidan and Audra. Aidan was abducted and recently gave birth to an alien daughter, whose name is Luna.

Not many sims in my legacy to name so far, but I do have a rather extensive list of names I want to use.

[Simmed]

My two favorite girl names are Jamie, and Tasha. ( t A sh A, not tosha.. lol ) Tasha is a very uncommon name, that's why I like it. :P And Jamie is such a snug and cozy name. :D I also like the name Amanda, which means 'Worthy of Love'.

[simicide_SC]

I usually use old fashioned names that don't sound like they were thought up by stoned hippies.

Names I use: Matthew, Marcus, William, Anne, Shelley, Elizabeth, etc.
names I do not use: Dylan, Codey, Kelly, Tiffany, etc.

[DeviceNet_SC]

Sims i have made

Females
Ariel
Brianna
Devi
Laura
Leanne

Male:

Baily
Jeff
Maverick
Peter
Sam

Last names

Lynne
Slee
Taylor

[flashbangg]

I usually use old fashioned names that don't sound like they were thought up by stoned hippies.

Names I use: Matthew, Marcus, William, Anne, Shelley, Elizabeth, etc.
names I do not use: Dylan, Codey, Kelly, Tiffany, etc.

The same applies to me; I love traditional names like Victoria etc, which gets kind of confusing when there's about 10 Elizabeths running around Pleasantview xD I hate names like Dylan, they remind me of the Disney Channel.

[xRachael17]

What are your favourite names that you tend to use a lot in your game? What are the names of your favourite families, and your legacy family? Do you have any cute themes that you use?
I love names
I sometimes just google names and browse through the baby names etc, as that gives me plenty of inspiration.
Jasmine
Violet
Rosalina
Imogen
Felicity
Abigail
Louisa
Brooke
Sunny
Amelia
Olivia

Cameron
Ethan
Aaron
Ryan
Andrew
Oliver

[HelloClarice]

I've actually got two legacy families, the Thorpes and the Hills. I've named them in alphabetical order according to their generation.

I tend to like naming my characters things like "Anna" or "Anastasia" or something. I'm not particular with my naming, really. I'll call characters whatever makes sense, though I do like naming characters after places - "Maywood," "Brooklyn," "Paris," "India" et cetera.

[x-tashi-x_SC]

My fave family is the Griffin family (family guy freak alert!)
Okay there's

Josie and Dean
They had 3 kids: Steffi, Simone and Roxxy (steffi was adopted)
Roxxy moved out. Got married to Mikey
Adopted one son: Avri and gave birth to daughter: Chloe

[DeviceNet_SC]

i hope TS3 has optional middle name entry

[humblebumble]

i hope TS3 has optional middle name entry

Me too. That'd be great.

[Fernweather]

What are your favourite names that you tend to use a lot in your game? What are the names of your favourite families, and your legacy family? Do you have any cute themes that you use?
I use a mixture of fairly ordinary and unusual (and even silly names). I have a custom random name package in my downloads folder so that my townies/NPCs will all have names in keeping with those I give to my playable Sims.

Some of my favorite names in my current game are random names given to townies and NPC's:

Honor Trust - Female carpool driver.
Clever Bootstrap - Male uni student.
Crime Shadygreen - Female uni student.
Lucius Ottertrap - Male grand vampyre.

[DieNov]

The weird-but-cool names I created:

Geaufer Vennuoso - Alien Father
Joarrea Vennuoso - Alien Mother

And my favourite characters :
Valiant Valcrist with his lovely wife
Emily Valcrist

[stargirl!]

I'm fairly boring with the names I create, but I usually name my sims after people I know or musicians/old hollywood actors. The family I'm playing right now:

Bacall - named after Lauren Bacall, I love her!

Ben Bacall - father and named after my childhood crush
Kristen Bacall - mother/wife and I just chose a random generic name because I drew a blank while naming her :D
Emmy Bacall - daughter; named after Emmy Rossum
River Bacall - son; named after River Pheonix
Mike Bacall - son; named after my boyfriend :)
Carey Bacall - daughter, and I know the names don't really go together but I promised my friend I'd name one after her :)

[FeFeMJ]

I usually just use names from movies and books, but the name of my current favorite sim is River Meadowbrook. :)

[Lemon&Lime]

lol i actually have an old baby book that i use a lot and I use stuff from whatever I'm watching on TV at the time...

My fave right now is The Tudors: Henry, Anne and baby Elizabeth (can anyone guess what thats from? :D)

I also have Hendrikson and Grant families from the HBO series "Big Love". In the past I've had familys with names from Law & Order: SVU and Judging Amy... My favorite people names at the moment are Lilly and Roman...

I use an old baby book too! Its my best friend when I'm making/naming new Sims!
When I'm naming Sims I mostly take the Sim's class into account... especially in my medieval hood.


My favourite upper class/rich/important sims names -

Male -
Benedict
Frederick
Harold
Demetrius
Lawrence
Lombard
Lancelot

Female -
Elizabeth
Catherine
Seraphina
Adelaide
Evangeline
Augusta
Henrietta


Middle class names are a big mix, quite often shortened versions of upper class names or 'modern' names (I find middle class Sims the most boring in my medieval hood lol)

Male -
Benjamin
Harry
Lance
Ernest
George

Female -
Bethany
Kathryn
Lynette
Helen
Gladys


Poor/lower class Sim's names are usually short and plain (in comparison to high class names; this helps me distinguish between them and gives me a guide for the class of NPC Sims)

Male -
John
Ben
Chris
Philip
Simon

Female -
Mary
Anne
Sally
Lizzie
Ruth

[JacobEdward]

I use this ten-year-old baby book that's really beaten up, but I love it and it has thousands of names! :nod: So here are my favorites:

Males

Kaylen
Gabriel
Lionel
Silas
Prosper
Skandar
Nathaniel

Females
India
Ireland
Isabell/e/a
Agatha
Deirdre
Roxanne
Winona

:p Yeah, I like weird, old-fashioned names. I have a legacy family right now.
The founder is Alyssa Daniels, who is married to
Derek Vijayakar (now Daniels)
their daughters are
Pippa and Aggie
She's pregnant again by Darren Cheater, because I wanted a pretty heir, and I'll name it
Nemia or Devyn.

[princesshaichu]

Right now I'm on a French kick. Scarlet and Yves had eleven children: Georges, Yvette, Adrien, Jacques, Nadine, Christien, Marin, Louis, Henri, Miette, and Odette (in that order). Georges had Ambroise, Yvette had Soleil, Adrien had Erasmus (oops), Jacques had Vivien, Nadine had Candide and Victoire, and the rest have yet to hook up, although Louis just moved out with one Olga Krasinsky.

[naplesstevens]

I love naming my sims! I usually use cute, but slightly odd names...the kind I think would be cute for an actual child, but that I would never actually inflict on them:
Poppy
Piper
Juniper
Fitch
Jurnee

I did have one spree of naming families by theme:
La Fleur Family: Iris, Rose, Violet (you get the idea)
Stone Family: Opal, Jade, Jasper, Ruby...
Nutt Family: P., Wally, Hazel
Anos Family: June, Augusto, May

Silly, I know...but fun.

[ElZorro]

I named one of my plantsims "Pecan Sandy" after the cookie.

[Lemon&Lime]

I named my favourite Sim's husband (made for her in CAS) Windigo Ombay, and he is a Native Sim.

Windigo is "a giant monster of Ojibwa teachings" and Ombay means "come here; let's go" in the Ojibwa language, spoken by American Indians.

[humblebumble]

This thread is so inspirational. I don't need any name generators software now!

[Moonstream27]

My fave right now is The Tudors: Henry, Anne and baby Elizabeth (can anyone guess what thats from? :D)


omg! my favorite family is the Tudors!!!!! 122 and growing :) to keep track of them, i name them according to birth order, in typical royal fashion...Queen/King, Prince/Princess, Duke/Duchess, Lord/Lady, Sir. i know, goofy, but i came up with it years ago...

as for their legit names, i usually take them from whatever book i'm reading, and i try to give kids from the same parents names from the same book (hard when i take a break from the specific parents and haven't read the book in a while...) i have ones from Kate Elliot's Crown of Stars series, Frank Herbert's Dune, Mists of Avalon, and my latest trend, Shakespeare...Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing. I also do movies when i get bored with books; Emma, Battlestar Galactica, etc.

Then of course, there's my various plant sim themes; the oceans, plant names, trees...

During finals :D i name sims after whatever i'm studying, so i end up with things like Clemenceau, Constantine, Tiberius, etc. helps me remember them for the test too!

My fav names at the moment are:
Princess Rebecka Tudor (a favorite, i'm on the sixth generation of her line at the moment.)
Prince Logan Tudor (Dark Angel)
Queen Adelheid Tudor (Crown of Stars)
Adriatica Merovingian (plant sim)
Prince Tybalt Sampson (Romeo and Juliet) (Tiffany's son)
Sir Conrade Jitmakusol (Much Ado About Nothing) (Regina's son, hate the last name, but hey, Regina refused Prince Alexius Tudor's marriage proposal, Regina Tudor would've been a good name, sigh.)

Lady Jayne Tudor (i've got one of her in every generation, because in the second generation i had a teenage sim Lady Jayne but she died, she was the first sim to die on me, and i had had big plans for her, so i always name one sim after her in each generation...kinda backfired when i revived her...)

[kustirider2]

wow, 122 sims. i only have about 40 :P

[luminous]

I love quirky, untraditional names... things that you should probably never, ever name a child. LOL.

Girls:
Euhlia ("Euh")
Cinnamon Aloe
Bluebird
Easter
Cutie Pie
Elphie
Lamb
Pixie
Loser (yes, I actually have a girl named Loser XD)
Welcome

Guys:
Heather
Bon Bon
Mohawk
Cyanide
Promise
Julius ("Us")
Meytall ("Me")

Also, some names just work as first & last names: Louis Lewis (snagged from film The Baxter), Kevin Fred, Trick Razor, Fizz Razor, Tulip-Marie & Tilda-Rose Heartsdale, Agent West, Missy Robinson.

And yes, Us is the son of Me and Euh. ;D

[Moonstream27]

wow, 122 sims. i only have about 40 :P

that's probly a good thing, lol, i play obsessively and have no life! :D

some of those are pretty crazy, luminous, but one of the girl names is my last name, lol. i found it amusing :D

[Lemon&Lime]

Here are a few names I've called a few Sim's in-game born children recently...

- Dyana
- Celeste
- Tallulah
- Palladin (the only boy born for ages!)
- Penelope

[Nightlight]

girls:
Allegra
Silvana
Malesia
Hermosa Luz
Sophie
Nadia
Viola
Aurora

Guys:
Damian
Davide
Raphael
Travis
Gianuario
Samuele
Alejandro
Jean

[coko]

I try to name my sims based on the type of charcter I want them to be.

I currently have:
Naomi Banks - a model named after Naomi Campbell and Tyra Banks
Miles Tonkley - A SBB type who's a sports star. Tonkley as in 'tonk' (I think that's a London/UK phrase) or 'buff'
Vicky Vixen - a young socialite who likes to party and meet young guys
The Kawasakis - A japanese family (I was lacking inspiration that day!)
Aretha Nubian - a natural righteous sista who's the mayor of my custom neighbourhood
Isabella Fanucci - An Italian single mum with twins for Peter Ottamas
Myra Uppity - She's a bit stuck up
The Urbles - as in urban. A mixed raced couple with one son
Lil Big Jones - My homeboy-soon-to-be-rapper when i can be bothered to finish making the career
Steven Strong - another SBB type
Fatima Boum Boum - a big-boned girl named after the song 'Hey Fatty Boom Boom'

[Eva Aisling]

I'm about to start my game over, but my legacy sims were named McGillicutty. That was Lucy's maiden name from "I Love Lucy", and the one she always gave when she was up to no good and didn't want her husband to find out.
I'll probably just go back to Sims this time. [dork]

For first names, I try to think of one that compliments there character or what I intend to do with them. If I can't think of anything, I usually just randomly generate one. I tend to lean toward more realistic names that I encounter in the U.S.

[daniball95]

i like alot of names, lets see.....

~Girl Names~

Jesslyn
Jacie
mariah
Anna
Riley
Samantha
Meyghan
Caitlyn
Jersey
Allyson
Bethany
Asia
Anesa

~Boy Names~

Kevin
Joshua
Joe
Nick
Aiden
William
Tyler
Adam
Wade
Derek

[sunshinyness_SC]

mm the family i'm playing at the moment has

girls names:
- Addison (inspired by Addison from Greys, but bears no physical resemblance)
- Winnie (cute old fashioned name)
- Ramsey (i like using more guyish names for girls)
- Daisy

and the boys names:
- Cale (originally everyone in his family had a name starting with the letter 'c')
- Coe
- Kaspar (he was err... very pale)
- Maxxie (like the character from skins :) )

[ElZorro]

The last two sims I named were Ragnar and Atterdäg.

[aryannaface]

Right now my names seem to be:
Emma.
Marie.
Molly.
and then random names from the baby name book i have.

Mick.
Mason.
Lewis.
Israel.
Westley.

yay!

[michaelajand]

I've been accumulating names for a Victorian neighborhood that I plan on creating when I can play Sims again. (My laptop died, and the family desktop's graphics card died immediately after that.) And I may have gone overboard on the names, yes. Some of the surnames (like Mayhew and Blenheim and Carlisle) came out of a book on Victorian life that I have.

SURNAMES
Milton, Watson, Baker, Davenport, Edison, Mayhew, Thompson, Blenheim, Portman, Waterhouse, Carlisle, Spence, Godfrey, Gardiner.

FEMALES
Amelia, Clara, Evelina, Florence, Charlotte, Josephine, Lily, Harriet, Arabella, Christabel, Victoria, Emma, Eleanor, Estelle, Margaret, Rose, Martha, Violet, Flora, Marianne, Cassandra, Elizabeth, Hazel, Rhiannon, Octavia, Alice, Helene, Gemma.

MALES
Theodore, Anthony, Terence, Christian, Samuel, Walter, Lionel, Stuart, Emmett, Ernest, Victor, Gabriel, Edmund, Gareth, Edwin, Edgar, Alexander, Benjamin, Quincy.

[psivampyr]

Daisy and Nef Peacebloom- my town hippies that live minimal needs
Jake Forester- hes my woodsman and he lives in a small shack in the woods
David and Sara McDermott- the high society
Nate and (his wifes name changes when I remake him) Chandler
Ricky and Sammy Chandler- Nate's brother (David, Nate and Ricky were originally Titianna's children when i first played the game- I reset the game and remake them occasionally)
They all have had kids but the names vary on how I am feeling and what I'd like.
but I prefer them from this list-
Ivy
Evie
Piper
Marnie
Luke
Brodie
Nathan
Hawk
Peirce
Thanatos
Stilles
Neve'
Veronica

[charlie-chan_SC]

The names I've got at the moment are:

Blair, Sophie, Belle, Marianne, Fortunus, Nikki, Charity, Tabitha, Adrian, Caryl (she was adopted. Blah) and Christina.

[Lemon&Lime]

The most recent names I've used are; Dyana, Celeste, Tallulah, Penelope, Palladin, Gabrielle and Gwendolyn. The last were twins.

[Ferret II]

Favourite names of mine at the moment are:

Ruby, Evie, Archie, Alfie, Hamish, Felix, Phoebe, Robert, Michael, Alan, Edward, Jasper, Tony, Charlie, Sam, Elliot, Mabel, Sophie, Megan, Alice, Beatrice, Betsy, Devon, Millie, Katie, Emily, Rachel, Daisy, George, Max and Heather :D

[Dreea]

I always give my sims unique names. I invent them when I create the sims. Names like Amera, Sychedelie, Naema, Sarisa, Amareea, Ariss, Samira, Zharick are just some of my females name. My real life dogs are named Khianna - female and Ra-Moon - male, so yeah, I am into unique, crazy names. I like the last name to be short and nice like Harash, Leon, Du'Olivier, Said, Elix. I don't usually play with men so male names are common like Tom or a little bit unique like Sajed. :)

[Moonstream27]

Favourite names of mine at the moment are:

Ruby, Evie, Archie, Alfie, Hamish, Felix, Phoebe, Robert, Michael, Alan, Edward, Jasper, Tony, Charlie, Sam, Elliot, Mabel, Sophie, Megan, Alice, Beatrice, Betsy, Devon, Millie, Katie, Emily, Rachel, Daisy, George, Max and Heather :D

i'm detecting a twilight pattern...

[Flux1212]

Out of 72 households, these are some of the main ones:

Haworth
Delacroix
Usher
Dupree
Fairchild
Zorek
Esterhaus
Montfort
Roberts
De Mandeville
Ducasse
Tricou
Goth
Cassavetes (this is Cassandra Goth's family)
Hanson
Baden-Powell
Fontana
Dellamorte
Peru
Reynolds
Beauregarde
Stratton
Mackenzie
Van Helsing
Pons
Storm
De Barbezac
Beaujolais

My neighborhood (Avondale) has a lot of New Orleans in it, so there are a lot of French families. Some of the surnames:

Gaudet
Thibodeau
Boudreau
Rabideau
Chauvin
Lanaux
Charbonneau
Arceneaux

First names -- too many favoriites to list all, but here's a random sampling:

Female: Cleo, Circe, Hecate, Minerva, Selena, Anastasia, Poe, Winona, Luna, Amelie, Callista, Isolde, Mia, Orchid

Male: Peregrine, Damon, Ivan, Julian, Remy, Elwood (I find it a lot easier to come up with good female names)

[Ferret II]

i'm detecting a twilight pattern...

:laugh: Funnily enough, I don't like the name Bella!

[Jadore]

My Household:
Channing Liu
Ava Liu (maiden name is Dash)
Shwetha Liu

Last Names:
Asagao
Sole
Ventura
Tao

Female First Names:
Adele
Cara
Madelyn (Mady)
Layla
Kiley
Cassandra (Cassie)
Gabrielle
Sydney
Rae

Male First Names:
Chad
Nolan
Rich
Nate

[xbRiAnNax]

Female
Skila Hanback (pronounced like Skyla)
Lexi Jones
Ava Jones
Angelina Torrez
Kiley McKynzie
Kalai Weaver
Lexa Jones
Justine Jones
Maisea Vaughn
Ayla Miller
Lila Langley

Male
Julian Kallan
Kyrian Jones
Cam Langley
Tristan Jones
Ethan Jones
Nathan Vaughn
Noah Vaughn
Lucas Calhoun
Payton Centowski
Rowan Taylor
Hayden McCormick

[ptrcancer]

I tend to pick boring names, or name people after ancestors. A few names (a name with a relation in branckets symbolises who the sim was named after):

Male
John (great great grandfather), Paul, James, Michael, Ronan, Frank (grandfather), Francis, Bernard (grandfather), Charles (great grandfather), Patrick, Pietro (great great grandfather), Robert, Anthony (father), Antonio, Julian, Joseph (great great uncle)

Female
Lucilla (great grandmother), Catherine (great great/grand/mother), Imogen, Pauline, Julia, Hannah, Sarah, Mira, Alleriana, Kathleen (aunt), Claire, Carla, Alice, Diana, Jennifer, Diane

Surnames

Tamber, Tamborrinni, O'Gamhna, Taylor, Lethler, Johnson, Jackson, Michaels, Jones, Green, Smith, Molineaux, Seel, Combs, Visitor

[Lemon&Lime]

I've just started the asylum challenge, and I was stuck as to what to choose for the surname that will not only help me remember that they're part of the asylum but also won't sound too odd when one of them escaped and started a family or whatever.

So they are called the "Crayse" family. Hehe.

[Sta_r_obin]

I had a neighborhood and I tried to use "nature"-themed names.

Last Names

April, Fawn, Ivy, Meadows, Lark, July, Autumn, Fields, Willows, Rivers

Male First Names
(I'm uninspired)

Luke, Sammy, Izzy, Xavier, Jamie, Zachary, Mario, Damien, Tibalt, Andy, Robin, Ethan, Fox, Jean

Female First Names

Luna, Allison, Eva, Zena
(I don't have many girls, haha).

[lolwtf_SC]

Male: Danté, Christian, Juan, xxx.Jr, xxxIII and IV so on,

Female: Moonunit, Étoile (pronounced eh-twah), Lalune, Luminae, Soleil, Monpetit, ugh can't think of any more. All sentimental French sounding or space related or both.

[Miex]

My favorite name right now is "Dorian Gray DeLeon" for one of my male sims and "Ophelia" for a female sim.

[Dreamydre]

Female
______
Ursula
Bailey
Manny
Branwen
Skylar
Adora
Juniper


Male
____

Ethan
Aiden
Maddox
Chase
Daniel
Daryl
Duncan

[DarkPhoenix]

I sometimes like to use themes when naming my Sims. For instance, right now, I have a family in my game where everyone born into the family is named after a song. So... Iris, Jack, Diane, Sharona, Judith, Thomas, Rose, Maxwell, Sadie, Lucy, etc.

As for last names, I just go with whatever sounds good to me at the moment (even if it's a weird combination of syllables), which means that there can be some weird-sounding names.

[Ainotar]

I have noticed, that nowadays I name my Sims in alphabetical order. First one will start with A, next with B and so on... My family Koivu had kids called, Antti (m), Benjamin (m), Cecilia (f), Daniel (m), Elisa (f)...

I use mainly Finnish names, only if my sim really is "foreigner", he might have foreigner names. Lastnames are often by trees. Like Vaahtera, Koivu and Tammi (Maple, Birch and Oak).

[ElZorro]

I have noticed, that nowadays I name my Sims in alphabetical order. First one will start with A, next with B and so on...

I did that when I was playing around (briefly) with an Asylum.


Unrelated to that, I found a list of very unusual names in an article about New Zealand.

In New Zealand it is illegal to name your child:

Talula Does the Hula
Fish and Chips
Yeah Detroit
Keenan Got Lucy
Sex Fruit

In New Zealand, parents have been allowed to name their children:

Number 16 Bus Shelter
Violence

[Spicycookies_SC]

I use Beatrice as a last name.. kind of weird of me, eh? I don't have a lot of sims in my game, so it's easy for me to remember most of their names..: Burmey, Eliza, Alexandra, Candice, Juliette, Don, Kevin, Neil, Ravi, Ryan, Robin, Amy, Sara, Nathaniel, Jacob, Curtis, Brandon, Kathleen, Manda & Mandy, Jesse, Jessica, Roy, Lakin, Noah.. the list goes on.

For last names I have Beatrice, Berche, Cherish, Jones, Ashtun, and I think there is even more. :)

[Lemon&Lime]

Name's I've used recently are;

In the Extended Oakley Family
- Arabelle
- Reuben (a twin)
- Rosette (a twin)
- Elroy (3rd gen.)

In the Goth family
- Eleanor (a twin)
- Elizabeth (a twin)

[LAXman#31]

John Jacues

[luminous]

Ooh, some of these names are so elegant. :D I'm on the other side of things.
Recently, the Co-Lah family -

- Sota (AM)
- Lula (AF)
- Coco (TF)
- toddlers Kilo & Pi-Zho (twin boys)
- Toto, their dog XD

[chispassenia_SC]

I only play with a family: Hamilton
Fathers: James and Zoe
Teen boy: Scott
Teen girl: Jade
Twin child: Kara and Kasmira.

Another last names at Neighborhood was: Kensington, Caine, Bonasera, Brown, Svetsaether, Murphy, Gordon, Stefan, Mandy, Nagano, Doe.
First woman names: DeeDee, Mao Su, Jane, Mary, Sidney, Cat, Jessica, Jill, Alessa, Andrea, Melinda, Sandra, Callie, Lilly.
First man names: John, Jinx Lee, Justin, Jarod, Cristian, Peter, Victor, Jack, Eric, Martin, Duncan.

Another names in the list for use:
Girls: Allya, Antoinette, Azadeh, Shyla, Sunset, Tara, Tasha, Gwenaëlle, Armelle, Kianna, Deondra, Delancey, Katherine Scarlett.
Boys: Bradley Lee, Michael Angel, Adam Steven, Charles Martin, Duncan James, Sean William, Loïc, Gildas, Arthus, Pierre Marie, Pierrick, Ronan, Yves, Nicolas, Erwan, Stepháne.

[Alek92]

These are my fav names:
Jack, Mike, Johan, Johny, Tony, Jessica, Samantha, Betty, Christina


and last names:
Smith, Richardson, Samson, Newby....

[milkiemybaby]

Haha...in one Legacy (last name Landon) I had a theme of politicians.
Girls: John McCain, Clinton
Boys: Osama, Obama (twins)

[Dreamydre]

Err how about Skylar Candler?

[Pockkt]

I take really common names, and spell them weird

Knowelle (Pepperfarm)
Deryeck (Whoor)
Audrennah (Summerdream)

like that.

[Mrs_Weasley_SC]

I use Shakespeare, and Terry Pratchett.
So I have young Esmeralda Weatherwax playing with Little kiddie Machbeth

Also I have word cut and made names, like
Ce Ment (male)
Obli Vious (Male)
Typ Ical (Senior Lady)
Hist Orian (A green alien lady)
also:
Tee Nage (Girl)
Ura Nage (Girl) This is actually a Judo Technique www. judoinfo.com/images/animations/blue/uranage.gif

[Zamn_SC]

I usually use strange names... because I love them so much.
Example: Miro Opiate, my legacy founder.
Sometimes I get inspired about a song and named a sim with them.
Like Jacqueline Matineé (a sim that I adore so much) I named her because I was listening Franz Ferdinand.
Other times I just copy the names from videogames or books.
Example: Toxa Classico (from Legend of Kartia; videogame), Alhana Starbreeze (from Dragonlance; book) and Misery Chastain (from Misery; book and movie).

[Jennybean]

Here's my Landgraab Legacy so far... I'm going with the ABC Legacy too.

Generation 1: Adele & Malcolm Landgraab
Generation 2: Briseis, Bernice, Briony, Bailey, Bram (boy), Bella
Generation 3: Cedric (son of Briseis), Cody (son of Bernice), Caitlyn (daughter of Briony), Casper (son of Bella)

What is so surprising about this legacy is that nearly all of Malcolm's kids were... not so pretty, and yet they had beautiful children! Briony, for example, barely had a face. Caitlyn is adorable. Bernice was ok, but her husband had the worst maxi face template.... Surprise!! SUPER cute Cody! :D I can't wait to see the rest of them!

[BAH_SC]

I have a hard time thinking up names, so sometimes I ask my husband (who doesn't play) for ideas. This is why I have kittens named after types of pasta, and a guy named Bilbo Peanutbutter running around my neighborhood. :blink:

[SimzLover08]

lol @ BAH..

I sometimes like names of states and countries for females.. kinda unusual? :/ Like Asia, Korea but I spell it like (Koriya), Nevada, and Arizona. For males I suck at their names. I use Damien, Jacob, Brandon, Quincy, Xavier, Caleb, Troy, and DeJon.

Last names.. Jameson, Richards, Whitman, Mitchell, Jones, Johnson, Phillips, and Anderson.

[PuX- 80's]

I searched for Baby names and came up with a very good site (http://www.babynames.com/NSI/) for names.
I found a little section that gave you themed names like, Halloween, Celebrities, Pets, Shakespeare.


I liked:
Crimson (Blood)
Damien (So happens to be the kid in Omen)
:D

[lekate_SC]

Uh, my names tend to be semi-generic, because I usually write them down on a sheet I have and go off that.

First names I really like are: Ian, Oliver, Noah, Jack, Tyler, Max, Sophie, Rae, Stef, Brie, Alexia, and Emma. Last names I'm really bad at and usually look for company names (since they usually have a founder's last name in it) on whatever I have close to me at the moment. :P

[SundaySim]

I normally just use what ever pops up in my head. I am going to start using themes for each family so I get a mix of names. But I haven't had that many births in my hood yet.

[DancingSimmer]

Households I've been playing recently:

Pribynski
Rutherford
Harrison
Kalkowski
Green
McCloud

I need more creative names... lol

First names (male):
Geoffrey
Michael
Zachary
Nathaniel
Timothy
Jacob
Mitchell
Johnathon
Xavier
Cody
Aaron
Cory
Patrick
Scott
Peter
William
Jeremiah

First names (female):
Elizabeth
Katelynne
Patricia
Monica
Monique
Yolanda
Tina
Rebecca
Courtney
Jessica
Jacklynn
Alexandria
Heather
Hannah
Hope
Francesca
Desireè
Sasha
Isabella

[Charley-x]

Eloise Myres < i use ALOT. if they where all in the same N'hood it would be eloise land haha :P
Most Boy names:
Billy
Jack
Ryan
Most girl name:
Eloise
Michelle
Amelia
Aleesha. :P
Imm soooo creative. not. :)

[Sav5-0]

Families I've been playing lately:
Love:
Chad love, living with Marisa Bendett

Precious (my faves! ^.^):
Bunny (wife) Precious and Cutesy (husband) Precious, with their triplets Darling(girl), Honey(boy), and Angel(girl)

Roseland:
Cyd Roseland(creepy guy who came with Pets) and his fiance Alyssa Joy

[Quetzalcoatl]

I tend to create more male sims than female ones because I can never think of a good name for women :D

I mostly use for male sims:
Jonah (after the kid in 'Sleepless in Seattle' xD)
Elias
Chris(topher)
Ben
Jake
Jacob
Luca(s)

[dzenox]

For guys...

Gavin
Joel
Daniel
Gabe
Joey
Andrew
Josh

And girls... (The last five in game babies have been boys!!)

Monica
Melody
Emma
Olivia

Last names... (I'm so uncreative with these)

Clark
Hurtado
Lander

[Mrs.Black_SC]

now I'm playing just with one family: The moonstones.
The Father (Marcus)
with twin toddler girls (Alana and Aleia).

[Kavkid]

Kitson is the big family I have right now. Half the people in my neighborhood are Kitsons. There are others, like Pederson, Landgrabb IV (someone married him from the Kitson family.)

Right now there's too many people to put down their first names, but I'll put down a few:
Seán and Kaylynn (starters of the Family)
Owen and Scott were the sons.
Alex, Lucy, Angela, Adam, Ciarán, and loads more, Owen had a lot of kids. There is another Generation.. but there are too many to name.

[Lemon&Lime]

I recently named Sims these names (I only play generationally, except occasionally when I make one Sim in CAS)

- Zanu (the child of Chloe Singles and Ajay Loner)
- Elroy (born to my custom legacy-style family, 3rd gen.)
- Kitty & Willow (twins born to Vidcund Curious after he was abducted, I'm not 100% sure that one is called Willow, it might actually be Violet, but the other is definatly called Kitty)
- Clara (Pascal's alien child)

[Destinita]

I like the name Desireè. Woo sexy.

[AndaleTheGreat]

I always like to name them based on people they are based on.
I call my regular character (the one I always remake) Andy Radski which is my nickname and combined mine and my wife's last names.

[WooHoo]

Names you'd (hopefully) not name a kid in real life. Grenadine is a recent favorite. I'd not name a real baby that, but a Sim? Absolutely!

[Dr. BaconStein]

When not recreating Sims from the console games or elsewhere, I usually pull all of the names out of a baby names book I have. :F

[kustirider2]

Am i the only one who goes through loads of pages just to find good names :lol:
I have about 7 word documents full of names :P

[Charley-x]

kustirider: no your not i do that too.. all mine are proper english names aswell harhar.. or if i'm folllowing a theme just sayy grey.. i'd google.. "whats itlalian for grey"
:)
im that sad. :D

[GiipsySimKittyn]

Favorite names for girls:

Rain
Lacey
Alexis
Adelaide
Ruby
Odette
Evie
Saaiya
Jayne
Audrina
Sylvia
Elsa-Beth
Annette
Issah

LoL I obviously like the letter "Y"

Favorite first Names for boys:

Milo (pronounced as My-Low)
Dimitrius
Leo
Damian
Arden
Charles
Cleeve
Troy
Nathaniel
Pierce
Jed
Logan
Grant
Brody
Malcolm

Favorite Last Names:

Foxworth
Marquet
McGregor
McAdams
Winslow
Brooks
Jackson
Simons
Rawlins
Joseph
Stonewall
Andreas

[Shion_SC]

It's pointless, but I really wish sims could have middle names.

I don't really care about male names, for some reason, so they usually end up being James or Matt or something equally boring. My favourites in my custom hood are:

Alice (Alice Maria is a nice combo)
Lenora
Estella
Maura
Dorothea
Noelle
Flora
Olivia
Nanette

So basically, I love old lady names.