Kyle Alcott - I could not begin to tell you what I was
thinking when I was 16. I know I picked Kyle's name well before deciding anything about him, and when I
later decided to make him French, I didn't think to change his name to anything a French person could
actually pronounce.
Gabriel Blume - Gabriel's name was inspired by the song
Gabriel by Lamb - I think I just had it on a loop when I was developing him.
Maria Madison - I wanted her to have a 'normal' and pretty/feminine name. She was originally intended to be a
very different character - sort of shy and sweet and very depressed because of her sister's passing. Then she got sorted into Hufflepuff and everything went off the rails very quickly.
Richard Madison - To match with Maria I wanted him to have a common name, and when I first sorted him he went by Ricky to sort of reflect a 'cheeky' nature.
Ainsley Lynch - I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do when I first came back to the site. The very base skeleton of Ainsley's character was basically a redux of a character I sorted in 2010 (Aisling Fincham) but never got to RP because IRL Life got busy and I had to leave the site for a bit. I wanted another shot at a similar character, so I picked something similar and went from there.
Lizzie Taylor - I wanted Lizzie's name to be something quite common and energetic, and I think I pretty much just went with the first thing that came to mind. I realised later that oops I named her Elizabeth Taylor, so I had a bit of fun with her
hating comparisons to the actress.
October Alcott - I knew right away when I came back that I wanted Kyle to have a kid, and that he was the kind of person to pick an unusual name. I settled on October after mishearing someone on TV whose name was actually
Tovah, and realised too late that I had given another French person a deeply un-French name. I've since decided the Alcotts are just. huge weirdos or something.
Kahurangi Josephs - I wanted her to have a Māori name, and after doing a bit of reading Kahurangi stood out to me. It's a kind of pounamu (precious native greenstone), a term for the colour blue, and a national park. Her middle name, Ataahua, means 'beautiful'. Her name also breaks down into two other words - a Kahu is a kind of bird, and Rangi is a shortening of Ranginui, the sky father.
Harley Tsuji - I picked Harley because it sounded cool and punk like a name a cool punk would have, and realised later that if I was making her parents quite uptight that that was perhaps not a name they would pick. ( I have since gotten better at thinking before I name.) Her middle name, Akane means 'red', and all of her siblings similarly have Japanese middle names that mean different colours.
Vivian Brackenstall - I wanted Vivian to sound like a withering Victorian poet who lives on the moors and writes of his Woes, so I picked a very old-fashioned name for him. His surname comes directly from a Sherlock Holmes book, The Adventure Of The Abbey Grange.
Caro Taylor - Being Lizzie's little sister I wanted her to similarly have a shortening of a long, slightly old fashioned name, and Caro is a
very kiwi name of shortening Caroline.
Kauri Tipene - Again I wanted Kauri to have a Māori name, and I wanted it to be something quite common. Kauri is a very common name, and I felt like its meaning fit the vibe I was going for - it's a very long-lived (though sadly now endangered) and very large, sturdy kind of tree.
Zoe Tsuji - After naming Harley I figured her siblings all needed to have modern-ish sounding names, and Zoe has always been one of my favourite names. Her middle name, Aoi, means 'blue'.
Adelia Kolter - I'll be real, I don't remember naming Adelia. I think I wanted something classic-sounding, but I don't recall much of my thought process.
Edmund Westwick - Daph and I made the Westwick twins in a 3 am frenzy based
entirely off the name Westwick. I found a website that inexplicably used the name "Kanye Westwick" for Kanye West (whose name is not and never has been Westwick) and we both desperately wanted to use it. Their first names came from trying to think of names that made them sound like sickly victorian orphans, and at the time I was very much unaware of Famous Scumbag Ed Westwick so oops. His middle name, Clinton, comes from a webcomic character I disliked at the time but now like very much.
Charlie Madison - Charlie's name was originally Chloe in my notes, but I knew very very early in their development that I wanted them to be nonbinary, and thinking it through I realised I was more comfortable starting them from a place of a gender-neutral name so that name dysphoria wouldn't be an element I had to decide how to handle.
Ruby Morales - Ruby was another one I don't really remember naming, but I know I've always loved the name Ruby, so I probably just plucked it out of my head.
Acacia Dunn - Another name I don't remember choosing! But it's pretty!!
Dominique Malone - I do remember wanting something very distinctive and sort of old Hollywood for Domi, to offset her larger-than-life tendencies. She was originally Dominique Fontaine, but I changed to Malone after realising someone else onsite had a Fontaine family.
Cedar Dunn - After naming Acacia, I thought it would be cute if her brother also had a tree name, and Cedar stood out to me after reading a few lists of tree names.
Emily Madison - I wanted Emily to have a very Australian name, since she's such an Australian archetype, and Emily jumped out at me. I realised too late that it jumped out at me because I
have an Australian second cousin named Emily. Oops. I also didn't realise at the time that Emzies' name was Emily. Double-oops (sorry Emzies.....)
William Kaimarama - William's first name came from a plot where his whole family had shortened nicknames they all had different feelings about. (Nobody's allowed to call him Wills but his family!) His middle name, like the rest of his family, is a native plant, and his surname is the name of a river, and it can also be broken up into the words 'kai' - food and 'marama' - moon.
Bernard Hackney - I wanted a kind of. old man sounding first name for him, and looking at lists of surnames 'Hackney' was literally TOO perfect for his personality
Jason Tsuji - Another Tsuji, named with a similar thought process to Zoe. His middle name, Haku, can mean both 'white' and 'older brother'.
James Holland - James came to me already named, though in all the Holland characters' bios he was... William Holland. I didn't really want another William, so I decided he's one of those people who goes by their middle name instead of their first, so James Holland it was.
Finn Madison - I'll be real I don't remember naming Finn I probably just ganked it from Adventure Time
Nell Wright - IIRC Nell also came to me pre-named, but I do like her name very much
Efren De Leon - Efren's name was a result of a lot of googling common names in the Phillippines, and settling on whatever sounded best to me.
Clifton Ward - I'm 99% I just plucked his name from the air I have no memory of choosing it at all.
Eva Marsh - Came to me pre-named!
Blake Irons - Blake was another character who came to me in a plotting frenzy with Daph. My big dark secret is that his very earliest character concept was based on Jake Paul - I wanted to make a character who was TERRIBLE and see if I could redeem him. Obviously he developed a bit more between concept and RP but I wanted a similar-ish sounding name, and Blake Irons fit the bill.
Shale Night - Shale was originally attached to a very large family owned by a RPer who isn't onsite anymore
Their family had a pretty rigid tradition of naming all the kids after rocks, and Shale is the best character in Dragon Age: Origins soooooooooo......
Connor Holland - IIRC the only guideline Daph gave me when naming Connor was that most of the Hollands had pretty traditional names. I think I named him after Angel's son from Angel???
Lucy Holland - Again, Hollands with traditional names! Daph and I planned Lucy a LOOOOONG time before she was actually born (she ought to have been in school by now!) but the election held things up pretty dramatically so I sat on this name for a few years before getting to use it.
Bijoux Laurent - Yes she is named for the Hamtaro character but hey at least I finally managed to give a French character a French name...
Hester MacGillivray - I had had Hester on my 'to use' names list for a LONG time before sorting her, and MacGillivray came from digging around to find a Scottish clan and tartan I thought suited her well.
Vincent Holland - Came to me pre-named
Emery Elwood - I don't remember my naming process here RIP
Rupert Cresswell - LMAO THIS IS MY FAVOURITE NAMING PROCESS BC IT WAS SO SILLY AND LED TO SUCH A GOOD RESULT so Daph made Miles first (I don't even remember if he was originally going to HAVE a twin, though I know we had been talking about Michael Sheen twins for a while) and he was well and truly named by the time I was developing Rupert. Before I picked a name we were joking around about calling him something that rhymed - Niles or
Giles. So I named him Rupert, for Rupert Giles
Jenna Irons - I named her at the same time as I was developing Blake, and I knew she was going to be even worse than he was. I wanted a 'popular girl' name that wouldn't be out of place on a mean cheerleader in a 2000s teen movie, and Jenna fit the bill.
Thistle Carnahan - Thistle was another name I plucked off my to-use list after it had sat there for years, and I don't remember my exact thought process at the time.
Maggi Watties - HAHALKJSHLDJF OH NO I HAVE NEVER PUBLICLY EXPLAINED THIS JOKE so a while ago I was chatting with a few people about characters who all had food names (at the time I was planning to sort a character named Brie Boykin who wound up shelved sry Brie... one day...) and we kept talking about more and more exaggerated silly food names and I realised... to people outside this region... Maggi Watties wouldn't.... even.... read as....... a food name............ Maggi is a brand best known for their instant noodles, and Watties make sauce and baked beans and things like that BYE HAHAHAHAH her name was food all along.
Aleja Morales - Anna and I also named the Morales twins a long time before they were born, and IIRC I just found Aleja googling common Chilean names to try and find something that Ignacio and Ruby would both like.
Alexander Alcott - I named Alex waaay back when I made Kyle's first bio and I think it was just. 'hmm this is a cute name for a baby brother' but hey at least it's Frencher than Kyle...
Manaia Te Rangi - When I sat down and named all of Kahurangi's niblings I did a lot of research to find names that fit each of them. A Manaia is a guardian from Māori legend, that acts as a messenger between mortals and spirits.
Nessie Westwick - you know Zoe was gonna name one of her kids after the loch ness monster
Giulia Alcott - I'm digging myself out of this hole with
actual French names......
Hinemoa Josephs - Kahurangi had a long time to decide on her daughter's name, so I wanted to put a lot of thought into it too. I settled on Hinemoa, from the legend of
Hinemoa and Tūtānekai. There are a lot of names from Māori legend in the family, and I thought Kahurangi would like naming her daughter for a powerful wāhine who wasn't afraid to go after what she wanted. I considered making her surname Hōhepa, the Māori form of Josephs, but I decided against it ultimately, partly because macrons not working in usernames would cause problems, and partly because I think Kahurangi would want them both to match, and changing her surname would be a bit more complicated
Ngawaiata Martin - Ngawaiata's mum works in radio, so I wanted something musical. Ngawaiata means 'psalm', and breaks down into 'nga' - the and 'waiata' - song. Pretty simple thought process, there.
Blanche Broomhead - These were both names I'd had on my to-use list for a while, and when Kiersten and I were plotting the twins I threw out Broomhead and we really quickly developed their family's whole backstory, which will hopefully lead to some fun plots down the line. As far as Blanche goes, idr which one of us picked first but we agreed we wanted pretty old-fashioned first names, so Blanche it was!
Rāwhiti Te Rangi - Rāwhiti is another victim of macrons being a bit weird on HNZ. His first name is the Māori form of David, but macrons play a pretty big role in Māori pronunciation. (Kaka, Kakā and Kākā all mean very very different things!) The general grammar rule is that if you
can't use a macron you double the vowel to show the difference in pronunciation, which is why his username spells it Raawhiti. Rāwhiti is the correct spelling, though.
Ryan Marshall - Came to me pre-named
Timothy Bright-Root - I started from the surname here, one of my sims wound up with it by chance and I thought it was so delightful I
had to steal it for HNZ. As for the first name I wanted something more serious, since he's intended to be quite a serious person.
Kitty van Zijl - Kitty was a name I've had on my list for a while that fit her personality well, and van Zijl came to me while I was developing her - her PB is Dutch, and I decided to make her a descendant of Dutch immigrants. (Dutch surnames are pretty common here.)
Holden Marshall - Came from a list of old-fashioned names, to match with Penelope.
Duffy was just a google search for Irish surnames
‘Arvel Art Ayers’ was exactly what a random generator gave me and I loved it)
Here's mine, however they are by far not as interesting as some 
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