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This happened to me on PC as well, and I have a feeling I know exactly what is happening.
All of the pre-made sims have localization keys associated with their names. For whatever reason (my hunch is new localization entries), when you load a save made prior to the July 20th patch after applying the patch, it reads the names from the localization keys, rather than the save file. As far as my experience goes, it doesn't change household names, just the names of sims.
If you edit all the names back to what they were in the old save and save the game, the edited names remain on reload, so it's just an issue with loading saves made prior to the patch.
That's exactly the problem. You've articulated it well enough for even me to understand.. Makes perfect sense to me. I should also point out, it's not just the saves... It's sims made prior to the patch as well. If I load a previously edited NPC with a changed name, then the same issue occurs.