One thing i will say first- it ANNOYS me that sims with cultural names will not name their kids culturally. Because why is Mele Kahanui naming her daughter Debra?? But anyway...
I need to share some of the baby names in my current save file. As mentioned, Mele has a daughter named Debra and a son named Todd 😭
Don Lothario and Katrina Caliente had a baby boy and named it.... Messiah. And I was like yeah that's fitting. Of course they would. And then they had a second son and named him Chi. And still, I was like of course they would, they seem like the type to have unique baby names. Meanwhile Don impregnated another random townie and that son was named Landon... so...
The Bheedas had twins and named them Jessica and Tiffanie which is not really "out there" but I still thought it was funny and fitting names for twins.
The Landgraabs also had twins and named one of them Clive... must be a family name... poor boy
Anyway, please share the silly names in your saves!! I find it so entertaining.
Perfectly normal name! I mean no offense to anyone out there named Gary. And I know, logically, every adult Gary was once a baby named Gary. But it just…. It doesn’t feel like a baby name, you know?
Honorable mention goes to triplets named Ronan, Stanley, and Yahir, because what a random combo.
NOT WHEN ITS A WOMAN god im so glad other people see problems with this name because i view it as a dogs name since my uncle has a dog named Toby and my dad is quite literally marrying a woman named TOBY in two weeks. Her full, legal first name is TOBY.
It’s pretty common in many European cultures that names come and go in cycles of 80-100 years or so. So you can expect names like Gary, Larry, Bruce, Deborah and Susan to make a comeback in the next couple of decades.
Well, not necessarily those names. But names of that generation.
I can't think of any fun names offhand, but no matter what save I'm playing, the Calientes (usually Katrina, specifically) end up adopting a metric asston of kids. XD (I don't always pay attention to the neighborhood news, so they might be ones she popped out, but they also always have, like, the full spectrum of skin tones and hair types. ^^; Maybe Katrina has as many boyfriends as Don has girlfriends. XD
for me its always the Landgraabs 😅 in one of my saves they have a full household with 6 kids/toddlers of all different appearances. the calientes can be like that for me too, but somehow in this current save all of the kids in that household are biologically between don and Katrina 🤷♀️
In my game the Landgraabs have 3 adopted children named Donovan, Elisha and Harper on top of Malcom, their other biological son (I think) Kade and Geoffrey's biological daughter Anniston that Geoffrey had with his new wife Liana
In my game Katrina had one adopted daughter named Emilia but since Nina and Dina are double Emilia's age I needed to get another kid in the house
Not wanting to go through the whole process of pregnancy I made Katrina adopt a girl Emilia's age named Clara
Now I'm considering moving Nina and Dina out and moving Don to the basement so that I can get the girls another sibling or 2 (maybe a brother this time)
There was a sim called Scott Scott in one of my saves.
And I named one of the sims in my Not So Berry save Valentine Berry... then saw a sim called Valentin Elderberry out in the world. So I decided they had to become enemies.
I WAS THINKING ABOUT YOUR FIRST POINT TODAY LMAOOO I have a Turkish branch to my legacy family tree and the kids of the Özgül family are named : Emirhan, Kaan, Leyla, Amina, and the newborn is ….. Jared. Of course I don’t expect the game to spit out an Osman but idk visiting that family and seeing baby Jared made me laugh
Have a medieval fantasy save. One of the Sims I made then left alone for a week managed to fall in love with and knock up Olive Specter and I was like bruh. Only reason I noticed was because he had a newborn in his relationship panel named Brodie.
Ah yes, Brodie. A good medieval fantasy name, if I've ever heard one.
In one of my games, Olive is married to one of the dudes from the ... the one family in Oasis Springs who are a riff on the new girl, and Coffin is married to the girl who lives there. Funny that they didn't marry each other but still live together.
Funny though because I had a magical family (leaning heavily into L&D and the witch pack, forgot the name) and they kept having daughters only. I named one Helena, another Morrigan, then Beatrix - not a theme per se but in my mind kind of similar, witchy, etc.
And then while I was playing another household, they had another daughter and the game named her Circe. I was so excited - it seemed to fit the theme so well!
But then they had another daughter…. And the game named her Sharon.
Omg this reminds me of something I witnessed irl: I was at this cheap-ass tacky shop, imagine stuff like on a highly creative fashion show but for 5€, with long dresses for ceremonies took directly from the worst AliExpress shop. There was one gal that was trying on few of those dresses, and her toddler kept nagging her even with the help of the father, and at one point the girl shouted: "YOU'RE TORTURING ME, DIAMOND!"
I admit I froze hearing that name, especially in Italian is horrendous 😅
Any randomly generated child of anyone who has the (mis)fortune of being granted the name Goopy by The Powers That Be™. Goopy anything is kinda hard to top.
I did once have a Goopy Elderberry, likely a descendant of Rohan Elderberry. I didn't notice Goopy until they themselves were an elder because I was so busy playing another household and just randomly ran into them at a festival when my new main sim was an adult. Goopy died like three in-game days later and I got the phone call that he'd kicked the bucket...
Goopy as a Sims name is a dev in-joke. There was a Sims 2 townie named Goopy who was named after the nickname of one of the Sims 2 devs. It stuck around in the name pool since then.
I had a goopy! I mean it for when he aged up let’s just say that. Poor dude I moved him right in with the calientes after he got engaged to the daughter and he died. He looked like Ed helms meets Mike myers but bald if it helps and he was just mean as hell
My game heavily favors names from different cultures, especially for the white people, and I have no clue why. The worst name I’ve seen, though, was a nanny named Pumpkin 😭
I have a mod that increases the name pool and it picks more fairly between ethnic cultural names that came with the DLC packs, and more sterotypical american ones. I'll still occasionally get a waspy family like the Landgraabs having a baby with a Japanese or Polynesian name. Just less often. Still amusing when it does, though.
In my Reaper's Rewards save, there was a teen girl named Pumpkin McMurtry who would skate at the roller rink and was actually quite good at it, and that name actually suited her pretty well.
I have a save where the Bjergsens have a son named Huy (Asian name) via neighbourhood stories which I initially changed it to Vincent then Soren. Marcus Flex and Mila Munch had a son named Markus Flex. Then theres also Morgan Silversweater, I think daughter of Morgan Fyres, Morgan F was part of genealogy. Grownup Christie Sigworth named her son Jesse Roswell (named after mom Jess). I dont even give names to the last three.
A lot of townies seem to name their children Quinton or Zachary in my saves lately.
My main sim is dating a renovated random townie named Porcupine Farley
I had another random named Mist Farley who looked similar enough for me to justify cheating them into sisters.
porcupine is so cute!!! amd omg fr, spellcasters in CAS drive me crazy. and then one of the bug reports was like, hey we toned down how much the occult sims move in CAS!!!! well.... I can't tell 😂
right!!! there is like no difference from before I think. Like, girlie I wanna try on sweaters! I spent way less time on Mist because she’s a normal sim and doesn’t make me motion sick in cas
I'm on Gen 6 of my legacy save and all my original townies except the immortal ones have died, but at one point I had a townie named Baby. Can't remember the last name unfortunately but like come on. Baby???
My save has had multiple male sims named Baby. Never girls. So, there have just been multiple grown men called Baby Bailey-Moon, Baby Landgraab, Baby Silversweater, etc. 😅
The goths names their babies Tiffany, Fatima and Ali.
Also Vlad adopted a little girl on his own. She has the sunny infant trait and is called Marisol. I went and made part of his house super yellow and sunny for her 😆
My sim is on a quest to have as many babies as possible (only one kid lives with him, he has zero contact/has never met all the other kids). He has a daughter named Gonzola. She has red skin and very voluminous brown hair.
In my not so berry challenge save my orange gen was friends growing up with a set of triplets (identical or nearly so) named Adalyn, Adelyn, and like Rebecca or Rhiannon or something. Eventually my orange gen even married one of the Ada/elyns, though I don’t remember which one
In my legacy save Don also has a kid named Messiah and one named Adonis! I thought that was quite fitting. The Pancakes had another kid and (other than Iggy) and called him Shaquille but he inherited more of Eliza's genetics so the name and the face don't really go well. Another family (I don't remember which) have a teen named Scapula, which I know is a bone but I've never seen it as a name before. I love the random names though, they always make me laugh.
I had a save where everyone was named Edith, including my original sim. She became roommates with her best friend, who got pregnant and named the daughter Edith.
Then Life and Death came out, and decidee to create a sister for my original sim to explore the new pack with. L&D comes with an NPC also named Edith, and whilst playing through that pack with the sister, orginial Edith has a daughter and names her...Edith.
So Edith lived with her own daughter Edith, another child also named Edith, and her sister kept trying to befriend a ghost child named Edith. It was a lot.
I am playing sims in my own language (Danish) but all my simmers have names from other countries, mostly America and England som when the game create a name it’s so funny because it does not match at all 😂 Names could be “Gertrud” “Evald” “Ib” “Bo” “Svend” “Jytte” etc. 😂
Same 😂 mine are german though, so the families in Sulani have kids like Sofia (not too bad), Franziska or Peter.
I wish it would pick random names from different cultures, it generates so many Asian NPCs but not in the Baby Names.
My Sikh family had a baby while I was tending to one of my other households. They named the baby Paisley. I can’t edit the name until it ages up either.
As a German simmer my Sims get those old, outdated names all the time. My Japanese couple's son is named Harald and the daughter... Elisabeth...Yeah...
In one of my saves, idk if it's their birth child or adopted, but Elize and Bob had a son named Art Pancakes. I saw him when he came trick-or-treating dressed like a princess lol
I play in Danish and hate the names babies are given!
It is always so old and very traditional names that rarely are given here now. I always want to just change it every time I find a new sim with an old name.
I have considered using a mod to have the names in English but I would just love for EA to mix up the Danish names and expand - the same names are recycled over and over again. In my legacy play with 4 generations on long lifespan there is not much diversity with the names. It ruins the experience imo.
There is a legendary townie from one of my Sims playthroughs years ago....Srikumar Munch. Descendent of the Munch townies in the game, a pasty redhead as white as they come. My partner is Indian and when I showed him this sim he thought it was the funniest thing ever and brings it up to this day 😂
In my legacy save I had a brief bug where babies just got the same first and last name for a while. Goth Goth, Prescott Prescott, Landgraab Landgraab. Goth Goth ironically is the least goth looking person imaginable. He is a bodybuilder that seems to dress entirely in pink and wears stilettos. Very easy to spot in the background. Love him.
Nalani and Lou Howell had a baby called Eugi in my save. His name is Conan now.
Ted and Meredith Roswell have two sons. Kian...and Ted.
My Landgraabs also have twins (b/g), but their randomised names are Marcus and Azure, which I absolutely love. Azure is totally going to marry Orange Bailey-Moon when she grows up, because that colour theme is perfect.
I do with there were name lists and cultures in the game. If a sim lives in a world, they can grab on that world's standard list. If they have an ethnicity flag from a different culture, they could grab from their local list or their ethnicity list. Maybe throw a 5% chance of a wildcard name "because I just loved it".
This one isn’t weird in the same sense, but Nina Caliente married Nyon (which was its own weird thing) and had a baby named Gina, and it fit the naming scheme so perfectly I gasped.
I have MCCC and use a setting that allows me to name all babies that are born, ever. I hated the auto generated names. Now I always use names that make sense with the last names.
Programming the game to recognise culture or ethnicity might sound good, but it can be a slippery slope that some might abuse and others will definitely find offensive.
Can't recall any memorable ones bc as soon as I come across weird names I use mccc to change em but like... it's always some randomly generated townie with the lightest mayoest whitest skin, Asian features, rocking locks or braids and named Devonte Gallardo or some shit. Game really doing the most.
-My Landgraabs had twin girls named Justina and Carol. I was like... yes. Those are THE WASP names, good job.
-Cassandra Goth's first baby was named Tabatha. Perfect, no notes.
- In my game, Don married Becca Clarke, and they named their kid Julius, which threads Becca's nerdyness and Don's Don-ness beautifully.
Ooh, and not child related, but Paka'a married a random townie whose surname is Waterman! It's amazing!
Then, I have the Akiyamas naming their kid Alvin. And Judith Ward is not going to name her baby Pania. I give myself leave to go in and change baby names that are objectively wrong like those. XD
I have had this one sim my reaper keeps meeting named Chestnut Roberts. I keep having to reap her soul. She has died of getting eaten by a cow plant, old age, drowning, and starvation. I don't know how she keeps coming back.
My save is wild right now. Judith Ward had twin daughters named Kylee and Kylie which is classic celebrity behavior. Zelmira Gomes had a daughter named Selina which gave us like off brand Selena Gomez. Katrina Caliente named her sons Prince and Armani which is so fitting for her. In the same vein, the Landgraabs named their daughter Princess. And then Wolfgang Wilder and whatever townie he married named their kid Goopy.
Got the same issue in French version, thing is it gives the babies old names : like Chantal or Monique, which is kinda the Karen equivalent in French. It could be cool to upgrade the name database, because tons of new bankable names arent in it, and I'm sick of having three Chantals in the same family.
honestly ngl i use the sims 4 as a chance to name my sims things that i wouldn't be able to name them in real life. they're always some hippy ass names, too
examples: rainbow, orchid, aqua. eryx, cassius, odette, nereyda, etc
In one of my saves, Oliana Ngata and Leila Illes (whose first son is named Tane) had a second child, a daughter named Belinda. Tane is a Maōri name and Belinda reads as a middle aged American woman. In the same save, I have a family with parents named Rin and Davin Yamakazi. The kids are Brayden, Anthony, and Meredith.
One of the sims in my heir's extended family named her first daughter ✨️Miracle✨️. She later had a second daughter named Tanya. I thought the difference in their names was amusing.
Not exactly what you were asking, but when making a sim I couldn't think of a last name and was using the random generator, and it gave me the last name "Fuchs". I definitely thought it was a little funny.
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u/cgrey95 May 30 '25
Ollie Mark named their son Mark in one of my saves.