What's your sim name style?

I just go on a random name generator and generate until I find a first and last name I like :''D

I usually use the random name generator and try and find a name that fits the personality I envision for that sim. If random name generator isn't giving me what I want, I search up name ideas on Google

It all depends on the family I'm playing. Right now, the two saves I have are pre-determined. For instance in one I'm playing my Cantrell family that I created for the mini-series in my siggie. In my other save, it's my Ancestors, so their names are what they were. Problem is, there's lots of duplicate names in that family. An uncle and nephew born a year apart in RL, the nephew before the uncle, yet because he's the next generation down, he gets the II in his name, just to help keep them sorted.

Now, since I never fully played out the sons in my Cantrell family inside the boundary of the written series, when I get them married off, I will simply choose a name I like for their children. If I'm stuck, I use the randomizer. I used an old pocket-size Name the Baby book I've had for decades in the past. The randomizer works just fine for me, unless I can't find a name that suits me. Then I pull out my old standby — said all but tattered Baby Names book

Sometimes I do a little research trying to find names that "mean" something. Like I had a ghost that I named Ancillia Caretaker. I had a vision for her to become a maid/caretaker and help other sims in their households as ghost. I do things like that with Aliens often also. I go stereotypical too and name sims according to what how a name is usually associated (which people might find offensive). As in I might name an evil male Damien or might name a rich, snobbish girl Tiffany. I might name a nerd Myron (even though the only Myron I ever knew in real life was a football player).
It wouldn't actually work well if I were writing a story that I intended to publish but it amuses me.
For normal sims.. sometimes I just roll the wheel until one fits or it makes me think of one.

When I make Sims I always end up creating a little backstory to them in my head. Once the Sim is ready I go to Google and search for a good name.
(Example: if I create an Irish Sim I search "Irish names" list from Google and choose one for my Sim)

I look for names associated with whatever I imagined the cultural background of the sim to be
but I rarely take the names exactly as they are. Usually I'll sort of adjust them to make them sound better to me, but by then they're usually not recognizable as real names anymore

Omg lol me too haha I made the first sim my sim self and named after me but after that lol they haven't had normal names. I make up names and look up names. My current gen's children are named Scarlett, Iven, Arden, Fredrik, and Catriona. Kind of normal I guess maybe lol but I love unique and mythical names too and I also look up cultural names and such lol whatever I am in the mood for :D B)

The first few sims I made were all characters I’ve written in stories before or characters I’ve always imagined in stories I would like to write about but haven’t yet. They’re all fantasy stories, so the names I come up with are slightly less common. For the rest of my sims, I usually just use names that I like, or sometimes, I make a sim without having any idea what I wanted to make, then look at the end result and think “Hmm...this guy looks like a Jasper so I’ll name him Jasper.”

For aliens, I use an alien name generator because I want aliens to seem as otherwordly as possible, so their names are really funky in my game. I also have one alien who I named “Desire” only because her backstory is that she came to the Sim world but couldn’t remember how or what her name was. Then ahe found the joys of sim woohoo and became a woohoo addict, and the sim who she lives with promises to do that for her because he just wants to use her, and he was the one who ended up naming her Desire. So yea, I try to think of names that might have meaning for some of my sims too.

A few other sims I’ve made are based on random characters from other games, shows, etc, but I try not to make them identical and give them their own personality, but I sometimes just get the original character’s name and change it slightly as well.

I like coming up with silly names but it's always been my thing since TS1. When I can't think of a silly name I use the generator. Or if it's a vampire or alien, I might google for ideas if I can't think of something myself. Actually had an NPC in a save not too long ago named Sonny Day. I love it when the game generates funny names!

I love using Nameberry.com for my sim's children. I envision if I was the sim what name I would pick for my kids.