I have renamed several of mine. There is the one that looks like a Goth kid... black clothes and the white Kabookie makeup.. I named him Manson.. for Marlyn Manson. I also named one of the girls Paris(.As in Hilton). cause she is always dancing, and being lazy around the village. I also have Twins I named "Thing 1 and Thing 2" Hey the way some of them look too bad they don't have guitars , drums, and keyboards.. I bet some kick *** music would come out of them!

I almost always see a trait as soon as the baby is two =/
I always enjoy naming them, and my brother and sister who I play it with always enjoy the names, however, my 7 year old sister who lacks in imagination ended up calling all her villagers "Rosie" (her name)

I've taken to renaming my villagers names that suit them. Such as the grey haired male was renamed Einstein and became a Scientist. Red-haired pony tailed female is Scarlett (she also had the red dress). The male brown bowl head was renamed Dude. Spiked brown haired male became Spike. I guess my favorite though is the male black haired with the grey sides, his new name was Dracula. I have fun trying to think of the names that match them.

I started renaming to keep track of the villagers easier. I started with me and my family. Then went on to name people after some of my favorite tv shows, I have the cast of House, The andy Grifith show, Gilligans island(simply because they were castaways of course) etc. I started then in on naming them after my employees. I realized I was losing touch with reality when i started to freak out over people breeding that are named afer my family members. I was like that is your brother, duh, it is a game take a break from the computer.

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I rename mine, but I keep the first letter the same, unless I really think a certain name suits that villager.

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But on my next game I think I am going to name them after "Survivor" characters... I can't what to see Richard after the beach is cleaned

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I'm debating using charcters from Lost for my next lot of people.

At first i named them after how they look - i also had an einstein with grey spikey hair who became a master scientist

but then my harry potter obsession took over and i gave everyone names from harry potter but when the population got too big and i couldn't think of any more harry potter characters i left their names as they were.

by the way, my einstein got renamed to dumbledore

Didn't Mr Howell just call her "Lovey"? I didn't know she had a "real" name.

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I always name the golden child "goldie." Also-we always name the guy with the big-jug head "Yogurthead". Don't ask why--My 7 year old thinks he looks like a Yogurthead and I kinda agree with him.

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I usually rename the GC "Himself". Otherwise I don't usually rename villagers unless I spot duplicates.