I only rename the duplicates

i renamed mi gc jesus

At first... I took the HONOR of naming each child. I still keep my "fanny" for my master farmer gal in each village!! and I have Fav names for certain "looks" BTW... I DO have a dark skinned person. Been hearing a lot of chatter about it (lack of) just wanted to let people know. and happy to say that my villagers took off in a raft recently to find the other village.. interested to see how that works out. My oldest village has over a million tech points, and I let them progress as they wish. Interestingly enough, they all find something to do. Had a "town tramp" no training ... just became a "master parent" on her own!! LOL

Sometimes, they start out with the same names...so then i have to change the name so i can keep better track of them!

I rename all my villagers, in alphabetical order, and use jobs as last names: Andy Builder, Beth Farmer, Carl Science, etc...

*Really* annoying when the game switches ages around though, you have to rename everyone :p

I got really really frustrated with my a group of very lazy villagers...had a run of luck where i got several (as in over a dozen) who did not like running, working, or learning, or who did like laundy and resting

so i renamed one of them Marshall Herff (aka Marshall Herff Applewhite, founder of the Heaven's Gate Cult) and set him off to make some magic stew so they could go catch the spaceship before it was too late

i then redressed all of the people so they were dressed identically, and let them follow the path

After all of his comrades had gone to the big mothership in the sky, i sent him to join them

Not making light of the tragedy of the cult, i just had to set apart the villagers i intended to make go away, so it wouldn't be easy to knock off just any villager at any time i want

has to be some ceremony to it yanno

That's pretty funny, Eyeshigh

i rename some of the babies of one of my preetiest mums.its kinda like a tradition now.but just her babies.it all started with her(name was bindi and it was too normal so changed it to bindila)and yea.

I rename where I really do not like the name, or where it is somilar to a "proper" name, or where the Villager looks like someone I know and I will give tham that name.
I find it annoying to have two Villagers turn up with the same name. They should be able to stop that in the program. Also annoying is a distinctive Villager which has one name in one game, and then they turn up with a different name in the next game. That should be able to be stopped, -perhaps something for VV3.