I called my cat Cooking Fat

Mostly I use Writers, Poets and Artists .

Keef1973 please don't double post use the edit button instead.

Ooops sorry I'm new here

Girl names:
Calliope
Lorianna
Delilah
Magdalena
Adelaide
Sage
Sasha
Kelly

Boy names:
Ovid
Sylvester
Nicolas
Roger
Joshua
Darryl
Dennis
Dylan... I guess I like D names.

In my Strangetown now (descendants of maxis sims and custom):

Curious (children of Vidcund and Circe)
Ford (m)
Leia
Ruby


Curious (children of Pascal and Nervous)
Antares (m)
Alan (adopted with maxis name)
Altair (m)


Curious (children of Lazlo and Crystal)

Zooey
Seth
Cassily


Schaffer
(don't remember her name)
Eric
Hilary
Amberly

Kim (children of Robert and Cynthia)
Justin (maxis one)
Alexis (f)
Devon (f)


Grunt (children of Buzz and Lyla)
Tank (maxis)
Ripp (maxis)
Buck (maxis)
Yvonne


Loste (child of Ajay Loner and Kristen Loste, also known as Kristen Singles)
Marietta

I tend to use names of authors, models, and characters. I'll also look through magazines and see if I can find a name. Or I'll just look around my room when I'm very braindead and whatever word comes up I'll use in some variation.

I'm also obsessed with French names for my sims.

These are some favorite names I have used for my sims.

Girls:
Melissa
Jennifer
Jessica
Auviana
Amira
Laney

Boys:
Robert
James
Michael
John

Last Names:
Ramirez
Montgomery
Johnson
Phillips
Larson

This thread is awesome. It's so nice to see what other people are doing about names.

I'm in generation 8 in the legacy challenge so names are starting to become few and far between. But I always have names that I use over and over.

Last Names
Champion
Dagger
Bain
Prescott
Lockhart
Browning

For first names I usually have one way before hand for either a boy or a girl, and the names are usually really distinct. Next up for a boy is Rudyard and for a girl is Aeryn. If I pick a very common name, there's a reason for it, usually I name the sim after a TV character, which I do a lot of the time.

Boys Names
Riley
Finn
Alex
Chance
Everrett
Emmett
Schyler
Tracer
Malcolm
Sam
Noah
Abraham
Lyndan
Lavelle
Milo
Micah

Girl's Names
Clear
Anya
Parker
Evie
Emma
Delilah
Stokely
McCoy
Tierney
Abby
Dita
Ace
Hayden
Calamity
Wisely
Loxley
Wilde

when thinking of uncommon names, I either switch the genders, make last names first names, think of a descriptive word I like, think of a character I like, think of a song I like, Or sometimes they just come to me out of nowhere.

I pretty much stick to semi-common names, but there is one family I made that followed a unique theme. The Citrus family- Fruites, Limone, Lyeme, Mandarine, and Kumquat. They got deleted with my last reinstall, though.

Females
Audrey
Anais
Ava
Brigitte
Carrie
Eliana
Grace
Hannah
Haylee
Lisette
Miriam
Naima
Noella
Onyx
Pauletta
Sarai
Sarah
Taryn
Uli

Males
Adam
Braeden
Cale
Cole
Davide
Gregory
Michael
Noah
Nolan
Orion
Paolo
Quincy
Ryan
Samson
Sutter
Tim
Trance
Yolan

Last Names
Ayers
Bradley
Dorchester
Friar
Gonzalez
Greene
Holander
Meyers
Nunez
Paulson
Rhine
Winters

My Legacy Family was the Winters family and after the 3rd or 4th generation, I started to name all the kids after planets (Jupiter, Neptune, Venus) and different mythological characters (Aphrodite, Artemis, Daphne, Gaia, Hermes, Juno, Persephone, Selene).

I know I mix and match names from TV shows actors I was previously watching that night. Sometimes I'll mix the characters in the show's name with an actor's name, such as:

Derrick Walsh. Cookies to everyone that know where that name came from. ;D

Also, I was cooking and my sister had mentioned okra, and I thought it would be a cool name. So I'm planning to make a clan of sisters named: Okra, Oatmeal and Honey O' Tarian. (last name was based of the word vegetarian)

Worcester Family
Adele
(children of Adele)
Salem
Juliet
Jared
Jesse
(children of Salem)
Evie
Cerise
Morgan
Rosalie
Wendy
Jasper

Broke Family
(children of Brandi, with three different husbands)
Criss
Amelia
Seth
Summer

Larson family (children of Jason and Nina)
April
May (I know, I'm really lame)

Burb family (children of John, with two different wives)
Avri
Claudia

Noire family
Vendetta
(children of Vendetta)
Amaryllis
Apollonia
Skyler


Those are the main ones. They mainly come from books, movies and TV: Seth and Summer are from the OC, which was on when Brandi had twins. I got Cerise from a bottle of Black Cherry Soda-- it was turned on the french side, and it said "Cerise Noire," which is where I got that surname from as well. Vendetta was from V for, Jasper and Rosalie were from the book Twilight, April and May were... well, duh; and Apollonia was from the Godfather.

Sometimes I'll look at my mom's gardening books for names.

Let's see, my names aren't so creative, so far I have:

The Blacks: Marcus, Sarah, and Johnny (Johnny's named after his granddad, Jonathan Burb. Marcus is married to Lucy).

The Johnstons: Sage, Grier, Valentina, Cadence, and Brynn

The Kilches: Ennis, Lindze, Evan, Eric, and Eden

The Rhodes: Marianna, Aubrey, and Genevieve

The Torres: Danny and Deanna

Lol um I have seriously a weird taste in names here are my 5 most recent families

Swanson: Zariella & Kayleigh (sisters)
Falleta: Kateryna, Aiden, and Mischa
Johnson: Tsarina, Calub, Jakkob, Lianna
Walker: Robyn, Cam, Adam, Melisa
Cross: Krystyn

haha i like Tsarina the best... Tsarina is a Russian Princess which makes me so tempted to name the next child Anastasia...

Melissa

I have a sim called "Grandmaster Ramrod". My neigbourhood is special.

But usually I either stick to classic English names, foreign names (depending on where the sim is from) or mythological names.

LMAO Lolli, dare I ask? Grandmaster Ramrod sounds vaguely naughty

Names I have...

Ladies:

Catriona
Moneta
Aeode
Alessa
Valeen
Miral
Faye
Simone
Valentina
Eleonore
Merope
Aenea
...etc

Gents:

Tristan
Ash
Hype (Hyperion)
Heathcliff
Gabriel
Ted
Sean
Anthony
Jason
Jonathan
...etc

Last names:

Falconbridge
Loveless
Traumer
Tekk
Brewster
Gillespie
McCarthy
Griffith
Renard
...etc

So, I usually pick either obscure, little known, or classical names for my sims. Sometimes I go with more ordinary ones, too.

I tend to look at common names in England to help. I never name them after people I know though. Last names, sometimes something I hear off of TV or lists again.

Last:
Reddin
Hall
Legacy[I'm SOO creative]
Brettin

First:
Skyler
Keegan
Nathan
Guss
Annika
Lexy
Spencer
William

Hehe I found a funny method for getting names.
I thik everyone of you knows the spam which you get daily. So before I delete the spam I just look at the adressor's names and write them down. Then I mix the names or if they sound good I use them. You see, you can even made the useless things a bit useful.:D

You're not wrong there

Ok, trying to show some variety there :D

Males:

Oztal (Xk'krylg'hnreblvian alien)
Yliopëxunox (Xyliriaxon alien)
Farouk
BabySugaDaddy (chav)
Midnight (son of two Enayla sims...)
StackPointer (Geek alien)
Xavier
Pierre-Lionel
Cream (Ball joint doll)
Valentin
...etc

Females:

Ymn'ixxu (Xk'krylg'hnreblvian alien)
Earth (daughter of an alien couple)
Julie
Bootileesha (chav)
Nathalie
SharedDocs (Geek alien)
Splynntarsêl (elf)
Marie-Anne
Véronique
La Pomme (apple!)
...

Families:

Neebtadrizk
Geek
X
Duchemol (= What's-their-name)
Greenthumb
McNinja (yes, the webcomic one)
Filchard
DaChav
...

I love La Pomme...such a weird thing to have a sim of an apple.

I usually try to follow a theme when I create names. In my current legacy challenge the second generation is three children.

there names all start with N (since their father the founder's name started with M):
Norman
Nicole
Nathaniel

all norman's kids name start with O
Olivia
octiva
Opal

Nicole kids are named after states
Texas
Virigina
York (after New York)

Nathaniels Kids are all going to have bible names
John
Mark
and if the thrid one is a girl ruth, boy paul

Last names are:
Adams
Fairchild (Nicole husband was a prof from university she took his last name)

Legacy

Hermosa Luz Suarez
dad.. hum.. I don't remember, sorry :P
Beatrisa and Marisol (twins)

My fav female names

Nadia, Sophie, Malesia, Melanie, Francesca, Viola, Michelle, Luisella, Sara, Ornella..

My fav male names

Daniele, Alejandro, Alessio, Jean, Giacomo, Damian, Leonardo, Diego, Noel

Last names...

Damiani, Lover, Monticelli, ecc ecc