Oh my! I'm so sorry!! I didn't even think how it sounded! I was meaning something like what Lukerie says here:

I should have given an example. You can be sure, I always treat my villagers with the utmost respect and Guiding Hand kindness! However, I don't want to cause any trouble, so I'll drop the idea. And I deeply apologize to anyone offended.

I also have a way of last naming villagers. All my original villagers names automatically become the last name of their child.

Example: I have three girls: Waiata, Kia, and Lomai. I also have three boys: Nolo, Moto, and Tui. If Lomai and Tui have a baby, the last name will be Tui if it is a boy and Lomai if it is a girl.

After that I just keep repeating the last names. It's a good efficient way of keeping track of your villagers. It is also good if you like to see what original villager your tribe came from.

I do the same but with... the names!! For example, my last born is "Waipi PaiRuk", daughter of Pai and Ruku! (And she's so cute!! )

It's ok, HappyPlayer!

I make that villager 7.

lol thats real smart
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I use the fathers first name as the mother and children of the unions last name and use something in the same catagory as the mother. Like storm=father, Rose=mother, girl child will be like Daisy storm, or a boy child will be like Weed storm. lol

I usually leave them alone. But if I dont, I make a theme per village. Like drinks or clothing. And I label the village's name that name. Cool huh?

Wow. The numbers thing... If someone wants to assign numbers to their villagers, I think its their perogative. I also gave numbers to one of my villages as a way of trying to keep up with who's who and did not once feel that village was any less important than any of the others. I have tried the various ways mentioned by others, but the best way for me to keep track of parentage was just to keep a family tree of my own. As for names, half of the time I keep the names the same. Sometimes I will alter it if the name is too weird or if I already had a villager named that. In one village I gave all Anglo names in alphabetical order. It was a trial to find "real" names in the letter Q after several generations. And yes, I look at baby names on websites to find some of my names.
I love VV and VF. Happy naming!

I do last names too, like for example, If Meza Uppleware marries Rapo Sander, the kid( s) become Sanders, So they usually inherit their father's last name but sometimes their mother's, These are the last names I use:

Sander
Uppleware
Tolstoy, or if female, Tolstoya
Jones
Awen, female Awena
Goldyson

And always, there's a royal family, so King or Queen or Prince or Princess counts as a last name, like Prince Raku.

Some tribes I leave the game's names, but change them if some outstanding characteristic surfaces. Like I had one farmer who was doggedly persistent from the very start, he never wandered off to pick coconuts when it was time for the crops to come in, became Master Farmer really young and was the tribe's 1st esteemed Elder. I renamed him "Steady Eddie" because whatever task I put him to he would stick with it.

Another tribe I named all the first generation with names starting with "Z" - when a "Z" mom & "Z" dad had a baby, that next generation I gave names starting with "Y" and so forth thru the alfabet. I have tribes with Spanish names, tribes with Hebrew names, tribes with Russian names, tribes with names from Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series...