i have this thing where i call the first born girl "soda", the researching mother "Nani" and her researching partner "lilo". I also call the best man "kaylan".

In my first tribe, I didn't and I had trouble keeping track. I didnt rename them because I wanted the tombstones to have same tribal-sounding names.

The minute I learned the trick of the stews, I created another village and named them after my officemates from my jobs haha. The good ones get totem's named after them

Another, when I only wanted runners and elders, I named them 1-100, with only the runners and elders having names.

A final tribe I created from experience, I name them my long lost friends and acquaintances, That way, I can remember the good stuff while playing

i have re-named 1 villager so far b4 he was fungo now he is called fungi

lol

I rename my villagers, sure. =O I don't really like the names sometimes, but Bobo is a cute one. =D

Edit: Oops. I just noticed that the last post was quite a while ago. Well, I'm stupid.

It's OK, some people have brought back threads from two years ago. Everyone's happy to read new opinions.

I do sometimes but only names i don't like

my dad once changed um all to mexican foods and once i did a whole tribe of "J"s

I change the names that are the same name in a row if for ie 4 or 5 villagers have the same name in a row I change them to other names.

I change duplicate names, but recently I find that about every five minutes or so real time, my people's names change to someone who is already there. Sometimes I start out with one name, then five minutes later everybody in the group has the same name.

I started making a list of the original names and what they're wearing, so when names change, I can go back and look at my list and change their names back to their original ones. But then if a kid comes up with the same name and the same outfit as an adult it's hard to keep up with after they reach working age.