What's your sim name style?

I used to go on the internet and look up names that I thought would be fitting for whatever, and sometimes I still do that for specific characters like if they are particularly ethnic.

However, for the most part i just randomly generate the name until I actually like something.

Heh I use the randomiser most of the time. But then there’s my new character for a sims story named Ugga....Really depends on my mood.

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

this unless i have something specific in mind xD

I lean towards Celtic, German, and Scandinavian names. Mostly because I'm a Scot obsessed with European countries and culture.

I like passing down similar sounding names in a family, derived from a grandparent, distant relative or honored mentor. Jacques de Villareal's grandaughter is Jaqueline, for example and if she gets a brother he'll most likely end up being Yukimura (Yuki Behr is the mother).

I also have an old baby name book on my desk that I consult in case I run out of ideas. The book has some real old-fashioned danish, dutch, german, russian, slavic and biblic names that fit the wacky sims world surprisingly well. There's times when my sims have a different background and I need to google or just make up something, but the book is my first go-to.

It depends on the sim, it depends on the family.

- One family may name all their kids with a Norse theme, another family may be going more vanilla with the names. Depends on the parents.
- Sometimes the name might be ironic.
- Sometimes I might be trying for historical accuracy, if it's supposed to be a very old vampire or something.
- Alien names are usually keymashes that I fix in order to make them pronounceable. Hyphens and apostrophes may or may not be included. Honestly I find aliens way easier to name than most other creatures for this reason; I don't need to consult any name lists or go by the few names I can think of off the top of my head. I can just make it up on the spot!

Notably, my game is also in Norwegian, so of course I tend to avoid English names. They just don't feel right.

Honestly I don't really have a particular naming style, I just go for whatever seems right for the sim in question.

At some point I honestly want to try doing the icelandic naming convention for a legacy, in which the baby's last name is the parent's first name. The game allows us to pick the child's first AND last name now, so why not?

I like to give my aliens sciency or astronomic names like Aries, venus, or Data
The vampires get dark or vampiric names like Blade, Fester, or Drusilla
Otherwise, I go with the randomizer or I let all the kids have names beginning with a certain letter.
I also give the rich kids long exotic names like Ophelia, and sometimes I give ethnic names relevant to the race of the sim, like Osei and Nzinga for African sims.

I create my Sims based on my own novel characters. The novel set in alternate universe which nations, languages, and cultures are different from us. However, I keep the names simple so (hopefully) readers won't find them too unworldly.

I use the in-game generator so i guess my style would be lazy? lol.

I use the in-game generator so i guess my style would be lazy? lol.