Anyone have any sort of Naming game going on with their families? I'm doing an alphabet themed game with one family. Here's how it works.

The first two were named Arthur and Annabel, and they had six children: Alice, Alexander, Adrian (adopted), Asher, Athena, and Amadeus.

Even though the names start with A, I try choose names that don't sound all that similar to each other except for the fact they begin with A. I also try to choose names that seem to fit the child's looks and personality.

Since I like leaving things up to chance, I roll a die to choose which child inherits, and it's Athena!

However, I can't have a family entirely of B starting names because Athena's name starts with A. So I decide she'll marry someone whose name starts with B, and she'll have only ONE child whose name also starts with B, and that child will inherit and marry someone whose name starts with B, and then they'll be able to have a full B family.

In order to keep it challenging to me though, I decided that for these transitional generations, the names would have to have some different theme in common to tie them together since they couldn't begin with the same letter. Athena's name comes from the Greek goddess of wisdom. I looked for a Greek god's name that began with "B" and found one called Bacchus who was the god of wine, and that name was used by both the Greeks and the Romans. Therefore, I gave their daughter the name Bellona for the Roman goddess of war.

So then Bellona's parents pass away and she inherits. She marries a handsome brown haired man named Bran and have children including the first set of twins! Beatrix and twins Bethany and Bridget, then Benjamin, Belinda and Basil.

When it became time to inherit I rolled the die again and the choice this time was Basil.

The name Basil comes from a type of herb plant, so that would be his theme. He marries a woman named Camellia,which is the name of a type of flower, and they have a daughter named Cerise which is the French name that means "cherry".

Cerise grows up and adopts a little girl named Catriona. She then marries an interesting man with back white hair named Calvin. They have five more children named Charles, Conor, Caleb, Celeste, and Coralie.

Right now I'm looking forward to seeing which one will inherit next!

I've been enjoying this theme, but I hope LDW fixes the bug that doesn't allow people to progress pass 30 generations or I won't ever get to Z. I still have a long ways to go though, so hopefully it'll be fixed by then. There's a good chance I might get tired of the theme too, but so far I'm having fun figuring out what to name them under these rules.

I'd really love to hear what other sort of self imposed rules such as naming themes people are following to make the game interesting to them.