i rename ones i cant pronounce or duplicates

I also rename them after their jobs. Mr. and Mrs. Farmer, Mr. Build or Prof if I train them to be scientists...I try to keep track of the marriages in the beginning. I caught Mrs. Build one time in the middle of flirting with mr. Farmer...Put a stop to that flirtation, the moment I walked in on them! (Yes,the ocean worked fine). I also tried to ad sr. and jr. to names, in the beginning, but it seems there are limitations to the length of the name? Well...never mind, we'll work around that one.

I don't rename mine, I actually like the random names, most I think are pretty or exotic, but one kept me laughing for a long time, one of those burly looking guys named Tutu, who loved to dance. He looked really funny!

I didn't even know I could rename villagers. I'm gonna start now. Some of them just deserve new names.

I would have liked to call one Lazy Idiot, but he died with his whole village in an interesting computer clock timing experiment.

LI got on my nerves so bad, I would have killed him off deliberately if I'd had a chance. Everybody was working but him, and he always walked around with the label "Bored" underneath his current activity. Hello! It's an island with no electricity for your computer, LI, of course you're going to be bored! lol

i keep the same names, but i try to keep track of whose kid was whose by adding a last name to each of the kids. (i.e. keiki + olu = jane kelu)

it gets kind of hard to do when kids start popping up all over the place, but the sense of order gives me a little bit of peace. (anal much? i know, i know...)

I rename if i get a duplicate.... I have noticed something tho.... every once in a while i get a female named Banga... and every time I turn around she has a baby...lol coincidence? as for last names....the original 7 i designate as a-f... offspring i use a combo of the letters according to the parents ie ab af abc etc

Hubby named his original "elders" Fred, Barney, Wilma. Betty, BamBam, and Pebbles LOLOLOL. Unfortunately for him, Wilma wanted nothing to do with Fred, she preferred BamBam's company in the "Conjungal Hut".

LOL!! That's pretty funny!
Personally, I find that I spend quite a bit of energy naming villagers. It's a good place to use some of the wackier names usually reserved for hamsters and such , plus I find that I tend to remember details about villagers I've named better than those that I haven't.

I always to just because its fun for me to. I have named them all after singers, or groups. The Beatles, MCR, and so on. I like to see little ringo run...run ringo..run!!!!

OMG!!!! Mommy now ya got me thinking.... I got one Farmer that loves to Run EVERYWHERE!!!! I gotta go rename him Forrest now, just to make Hubby laugh!!!!