Well this one was wierd.

I've been playing for a while and decided to run through all my Villagers to check out their stats, instead of just checking random villagers here and there.

I found three of my Villagers who were all aged within a few years of each other.. well.. all three of them were named 'Okau'. I thought that was pretty strange so I renamed two of them.

A couple of my other villagers I just had to laugh at are 'Obi' and 'Kenobi'

This is a known _bug_ that LDW haven't been able to reliably duplicate or eradicate. All you can do is rename your villagers again. The _bug_ also exists in VV1, although it seems to happen more frequently in VV2.

When i get a toddler who has the same name as a villager close in age i take 2 letters from each of the parents & make a new name ie: Keli & Aika had a son with same name as villager a few years older, so renamed him KeTa. Bindi & Tatoo had a daughter same name again so called her TaBi. I do have a few with same names but they are 2 or 3 generatins apart like Jade, Jade2, Jade3 ect.

Again my strangest name experience would have to be the father's name was Kenobi and the son's name was Obi (I posted a pic in photo thread). But generally if I get a duplicate name I either just add a letter or similar to jlb67, do a combo name of the parents.
In RL - I have a cousin that named her child the same name as her older brother. And it's Micheal, so it's not even an uncommon name! So Micheal had an Uncle Micheal (by blood)

In another post, I described making a last name out of the first three letters of the parents' names. Two funny results ended up as Ima FatBob and Kayak AteBob. I kid you not! I've also had Obi, Wan and Kenobi show up in another village.

that is not uncommon

in my family we have 6 or 7 men named Jack on my father's side.

i gave up long long ago on worrying about inbreeding. they don't actually get the mutations and become deformed, so its not a big deal to me

LOL!!
wow.. Obi, Wan AND Kenobi.. Thats awesome! I haven't had Wan come up yet.

I have had Tuna and Kayak though.

I'll keep an eye out for anything else amusing that I get come up.

My personal fave is Ima FatBob. And how cool is it that there is actually a Wan to go with Obi and Kenobi. Were any of them wearing the white two piece, karate like outfit? Y'know, the jedi gear?

I had a set of twins called 'Obi' and 'Kenobi', but the one I thought was the most apt was a girl called "Moma" who went on to be a master parent LOL

I had a villager who hated fish.
His name was Bass.
Ironic much?

Tuna, Juju, I think I had one named Totem...

There are others they just don't come to mind right now... I have named my villagers lots of stuff though. One I named John Mayer

Hi. I name my villagers the way Native Americans use to name their children - from nature. Well, all of them except Moon Doggie that is. I have an Angel (from angelfish), a Tiger Lily, a Pearl, a Mako, a Briarwood and an Orchid and so on. I'm sure that will get old as soon as my brain does dead on natural names. Thanks for the subject. It has been fun reading.

Sherrill (a newbie to the site)

I have a female farmer right now named Tuna.. why would you name a girl Tuna?!?!?!

maybe it's a name from another culture -- or maybe the namers werejust having a bit of fun

I think my next game, I'll go with Elfquestish names. Right now, I usually use the names they are given.

in vv1 i renames one of the pink haired villagers chen-chen and one of the redheads named Leetah

and i have had a couple of striking blondes i named cutter

i am sad none look like skywise tho

I had a Moma who never had children because I maxed out the population and then was unable to breed her before she turned 50! I've also had the name Tuna come up several times for a girl. I usually try to slightly modify the name if I have another villager with the same name, but if that doesn't work I pick an Americanized name that starts with the same letter.

I just had a girl called Papaya. And one of the best fishermen in my village is called Coho.

In a different village, I had a Moma, who died when she was 8 (there was a famine in the village). Hilariously, her epithet said, "Friend, teacher, and parent".

The one name generated in the game that bugs me is "Noriko". It's a girl's name in Japanese, but in VV1 and VV2 it's given to guys.

I had a female called Tuna and she hated fish lol

if your mother named you Tuna, you would hate fish too!

I think I would hate way more than that.

lol

i don't thik you could really hate your mom for a name, even one that horrible

My fav villager name is Kayak... if he gets a twin I always rename him Canoe

I have noticed quite a few Maori names in VV1 and 2. Names such as "Rangi" are Maori names. Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand.

I just had a girl called Ebi, which means "shrimp" in Japanese! I don't know about y'all but I wouldn't like to be called "shrimp" all the time growing up!

I have a girl, name is soda, I aslo have one named, city. So i renamed the parents: pop, county. just a thought

..lol, you are crazy, thanks for making my day

What about that well-known hot Spanish dish, Tuna Casser Olé?

Am I the only Geek who's most time consuming part of the game is trying to come up with 105 unique names for the villagers.. I started naming them alphabetically but it got 2 confusing and I has a hard time coming up with names for q x and I, so I just try to pick a name that fits But Im running out of them.

I really hate some of those names in VV2. Teapoto for a boy and Titta for a girl. Some others I dislike are Papago, Mamba, Banga, Nofo and Bixa.

I was at a high school graduation last night and one of the grads was named Aziza!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt like such a dork because I got all excited and started clapping. I'm hoping the people around me just thought I was clapping for her!

When I first started my VV2 I had 2 people with the same name. One was a boy and one was a girl, I think the name better fitted the girl as it was Aisha. Curently I have 2 boys named Popo only 2 years apart, same mother, but different father. I never rename them.

I started my new game and a girl named "City" drank a potion and became a Master Builder right off!

^Now that is funny.
In my latest game, I have two kids both by the name of Taro. It took me until the younger kid was 5 to figure that out.
I also have a guy who the game originally named "Lapis". I changed his name to "Lapis Lazuli".

Not sure if this is the right topic to post this, but I have a kid named Soda who likes playing and gets "jumpy" for no reason... She drank too much soda I guess That is only if they have soda in Isola of course!!!

I also had 2 pairs of twins in a previous game named Guapi & Goby. They were 9 years apart born to different parents.

There are a lot of names which in Italian have an actual meaning.
For example in a tribe there is a man called "Pepe", which means Pepper, or a girl named "Lupa", which means "female wolf".

That's because Carla is Italian. Arthur and Carla and family also spend some time in Italy every year. "Isola" itself is Italian for "island".

I had something similar, except it was with my VV3. 2 people were named Gata and they were both girls.