I’m currently in Sunlit Tides. I happened to see that the Grantham family had five kids, four girls and one boy, the boy being the middle child. Their youngest daughters are called Janell and Janel. What on Earth?? Why the complete lack of imagination :D :D Janell with two Ls is a child and Janel with one L is a baby. Originally Henry was called Julio, which is a nice name but didn’t fit with Sophie and Katherine, so I renamed him to Henry. I have a number of NRAAS mods including Story Progression. Anyone else had odd names like that?

Not necessarily odd, but I have about 5 different variants of Jamie and nearly 10 variants of Daren/Darrell/Darryl etc. in my game.

I can just imagine those Sims being in class or at work and hearing their name called and being so confused as to who’s who!I did rename the girls. Child Janell is now Jane, and baby Janel is now Abigail.

Yup! I just do what you did, and rename the town residents’ kids to something that fits better and is unique to that save. Too many similar given names are confusing. One of my current saves is in Midnight Hollow. I rarely play premade Sims, but I do progress them with MC commands. One of the resident households consists of husband and wife John and Jane Doe, and their children Joseph, Jennifer and James. Jane is also pregnant at the start with baby number four. Jane gave birth to another boy, and out of all the names possible, the game named him Joe. Bad enough his older brother is named Joseph, but... Joe Doe?? :lol: At least it kept to the J theme! But I renamed him Joshua. The family next door to the Doe’s is the Salas household, starting off with husband Jay, wife Tatiana, daughters Sandra and Frieda, and an unborn baby. The baby was a boy called Trevor, which I didn’t change. However, their fourth child ended up being a boy that the game named... Joseph! :joy: He’s called Andrew now.

On unusual player-chosen names getting reused, I used to have a handle on this but then a player at MTS reported seeing sims born in his game with names like Slavatore, Ferd, and Brain. Those were misspellings he used by accident (rather than Salvatore. Fred, and Brian) and they couldn't possibly be in the game's first name database spelled so badly. On the other hand, many of my actively played sims have odd names that I've chosen, I've used all of the letters of the Greek alphabet by now and I have yet to see those, WhatHisName, or Shmoopie (etc.) show up on other sims on their own. One theory is that the sims need to be saved into the household bin for their first names to get picked up for further use but that doesn't seem to hold true in my case or I would occasionally have sims born or spawned in-game with the name "igazor" among some of the above. :)

@thuggishsplicer actually your comment about Patricia Bedlington reminded me... I have an Appaloosa Plains save, her son ended up being called Jamel! So a Janel, Janell and Jamel. I tend to use fairly traditional/non-weird names for my Sims, so I don't know where the odd ones come from.

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UlanDhor
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Not necessarily odd, but I have about 5 different variants of Jamie and nearly 10 variants of Daren/Darrell/Darryl etc. in my game.
Lucy_Henley
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I can just imagine those Sims being in class or at work and hearing their name called and being so confused as to who’s who!

I did rename the girls. Child Janell is now Jane, and baby Janel is now Abigail.
quixotictiger
New Spectator
6 years ago
Yup! I just do what you did, and rename the town residents’ kids to something that fits better and is unique to that save. Too many similar given names are confusing.

One of my current saves is in Midnight Hollow. I rarely play premade Sims, but I do progress them with MC commands. One of the resident households consists of husband and wife John and Jane Doe, and their children Joseph, Jennifer and James. Jane is also pregnant at the start with baby number four.

Jane gave birth to another boy, and out of all the names possible, the game named him Joe. Bad enough his older brother is named Joseph, but... Joe Doe?? :lol: At least it kept to the J theme! But I renamed him Joshua.

The family next door to the Doe’s is the Salas household, starting off with husband Jay, wife Tatiana, daughters Sandra and Frieda, and an unborn baby. The baby was a boy called Trevor, which I didn’t change. However, their fourth child ended up being a boy that the game named... Joseph! :joy: He’s called Andrew now.
WillowWend
6 years ago
I named one of my children Elvira to be unique...now there are like two other children in town with the same name... remembering everyone in towns first and last name is confusing lol
mrcsdasilva
New Traveler
6 years ago
There are some names that I cringe and I also rename the children. In Appaloosa Plains, I even have girl/boy names for the premade newborns (Dakota Fox's sibling is always renamed to Montana, Ethan Parrott's sibling is Grahan or Tamika and Patricia Bedlington always has a Wayne or Winona). Yup, I have the names on a paper to remember whenever I replay the neighborhood. ^^0

But weird names... off the top of my head, I can't remember any case.
igazor
6 years ago
On unusual player-chosen names getting reused, I used to have a handle on this but then a player at MTS reported seeing sims born in his game with names like Slavatore, Ferd, and Brain. Those were misspellings he used by accident (rather than Salvatore. Fred, and Brian) and they couldn't possibly be in the game's first name database spelled so badly. On the other hand, many of my actively played sims have odd names that I've chosen, I've used all of the letters of the Greek alphabet by now and I have yet to see those, WhatHisName, or Shmoopie (etc.) show up on other sims on their own. One theory is that the sims need to be saved into the household bin for their first names to get picked up for further use but that doesn't seem to hold true in my case or I would occasionally have sims born or spawned in-game with the name "igazor" among some of the above. :)
Lucy_Henley
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@thuggishsplicer actually your comment about Patricia Bedlington reminded me... I have an Appaloosa Plains save, her son ended up being called Jamel! So a Janel, Janell and Jamel.

I tend to use fairly traditional/non-weird names for my Sims, so I don't know where the odd ones come from.
WatrDragon
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I normally take names as they come, although some of them are really odd.

So far I had names like "Rudio", "Wigbald", "Onko" and "Isolde". My favourite has to be "Uhlbert".

Also, the game named one of Teodor Medina´s (from Isla Paradiso) daughters ""Marina", which I found funny. Marina Medina. Also, the son of Oberon and Titania Summerdream (from Moonlight Falls) got named "Reginald", which means "king" or "ruler"", which doesn´t really bode well for his parents.
UlanDhor
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"Waterdragon;c-17393588" wrote:
So far I had names like "Rudio", "Wigbald", "Onko" and "Isolde". My favourite has to be "Uhlbert".

Except Rudio, which I don't know, those are at least real names. Isolde is probably the best known of those.
WatrDragon
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"Turjan;c-17393684" wrote:
"Waterdragon;c-17393588" wrote:
So far I had names like "Rudio", "Wigbald", "Onko" and "Isolde". My favourite has to be "Uhlbert".

Except Rudio, which I don't know, those are at least real names. Isolde is probably the best known of those.

Yeah, just not very common (or old) ones, most of them germanic in origin.
"Onko" seems to be a variant of "Onno" (a name from Eastern Friesland, a northern region of Germany). And a coffee brand.
And "Isolde" always remembers me of the opera.