I never change the name but I add last names.

I got a slow mo today!!!! I named her little turtle and she is 2 I started her off good though! she likes medicine so you know what I did! I also started her on building already too......

I have a child that is so slow when I use her (try to avoide it now) to pick up anything, it vanishes before she gets it to the hut/food bin!! OMG - I changed her name to Molasass.

for some fun reason... my villagers like to steal each others names. for example "yseult" will magically become "maynard" and "maynard" become "cobain." or i will end up with 3-4 villagers who all have the same name. i dont know why it happens, and i fix it whenever i notice it, but its still kinda funny.

hi jane , that is a well know _bug_ . it's been in vv1 and now vv2
probably will be in vv3 as well !
thats ok, i don't mind it much

We have recently found out what causes that _bug_, and it's something that can be prevented. There's a timing issue that can occur under certain conditions (when the computer is very busy or on older, slower computers). To prevent villagers' names from changing, don't scroll rapidly through the details screen, which causes the name of one villager to overwrite the name of the villager next to him in the details screens.

well how fun. at least its easy to fix and doesnt effect anything else.

I tend to change the names to something more exotic.
"Hula" wasn't doing it for me.

I rename each child after its' parents, who were named after THEIR parents, etc. etc. etc. All my names sound vaguely Hawaiian, except for Solo...I couldn't resist...he's now HanSolo, Master Doctor. And you just know, when I got Obi, he became "Obiwan". Even funnier, I got a child yesterday called "Kenobi". Very good, LDW!