Do you rename Sims? Particularly non-played Sims?

Nah. I'm too lazy.

That honestly sounds like way too much work lol.

I don't rename anyone, even after a Sim gets married. I kind of think the City Living names are charming and they feel very ethnic to me. What ethnicity? Who knows, but I don't mind them!

I've only ever given surnames to adopted pets because they need a last name to cheat the relationship... I adopt a pet, take them into CAS (fulleditmode) and just make a copy pretty much. Delete the old one, add a last name so that if there WAS a relationship prior to me doing all this, I can have the same relationship once I've created this clone in CAS... It's all that issue of pets not being able to be trained not to do certain things. So once that's fixed, I probably won't even go through the process of giving them last names.

I use a mod to control those City Living names, but before I started using that mod, I renamed often. I just like being able to pronounce sims names, even if it's only "close enough". Some of those city living names though, I am completely baffled on where to begin pronouncing them.

I’m very picky when it comes to the game-generated townies I keep in my saves, so I always give the ones I keep makeovers and change their names to better suit them. Although, my current save file has been generating some decent names lately. It created this beautiful sim named Jewel Xu and I just adore her. She’s an extremely skilled bartender in my game who frequently works in San Myshuno. :smile:

Mostly only where it needs to fit into a specific scenario I'm developing; other than that, I actually have a mod that generates less 'exotic' names so I don't really have to change that many.

Once every Simweek, I go into manage households to rename townies and give them makeovers. It takes a lot of time but it's so nice seeing well-dressed Sims in my game afterwards!

I will rename & change looks of sims if cheats to create my own versions isn't available (this was something I did with the Get Famous expansion pack at first for different directors/make-up artists/stylists/etc.) If I can create my own via cheats or anything else, I will get rid of the computer generated sims (either by deleting or plopping in my cemetery lot specifically to kill them off).

I used to but don't really bother anymore. I play rotationally so I have plenty of sims of my own to look after. I give make overs to townies my sims have became friends with and once in a while I also go to manage households and remove households that share the same name... I know it's futile since the game keeps generating new ones with the same names(!). So yeah I would be better off with editing their names instead but they just annoy me too much.

Yes, my game is in Spanish and it doesn’t generate any Spanish household, only Japanese names and the same 3 last names repeated all over.

I rename them all the time and give them makeovers.