More Names Variety

Info Update 30.07.2024:
Mods compatible with 1.108.335.1020 (Lovestruck patch). No changes necessary.

By default, if your sims visit Sulani, San Myshuno and Mt. Komorebi often, the game will generate sims to populate festivals, streets and to take part in activities. These townies do not get their names from the same list you have in CAS (randomized) but have separate lists of culturally appropriate names. These lists are short (some only 10 names long) and you may have noticed some repetition or have grown tired of seeing the same names over and over again.

There is also the situation, for simmers who play the game in a language other than English, where they have a very limited pool of random names.

If you have an overpopulation of Japanese or Islander townies see my other mod Rebalanced Townie Generation.


This mod expands the cultural names lists with names taken from census data. It does not replace the default names, it just ads to the lists. The game uses the same name list for cultural names, weather you play in english or norwegian (as long as it uses a latin script) so you will get expanded cultural names regardless of the file you grab.

The mod also adds a good chunk of names to the regular names list if you grab the file corresponding to the language you play in. These are a bit different:

English version
- I added names from the following cultural background: Armenian, Bosniak, Bulgarian, Croat, Greek, Magyar, Romanian, Slovene, Turkish. Names are mostly from national reports on name frequency.
- As there is no cultural tag for these names it’s very unlikely that a random townie will get a Greek first and last name for example. It will most likely be a mixture from a base-game name and maaaaaybe a new random name. This is ok and doesn’t stray from the base game that also has a varied pool of names.

Czech, French, German, Italian, Spanish versions
- I added names of corresponding cultural backgrounds. Meaning italian names for the Italian version and so on.
- Czech names have extra names for feminine and masculine declension of family names
- For French I added a couple of Maghreb names as well.

Korean version
- unfortunately the game uses transliterated English names which look very different from regular Korean names.
- I expanded the lists of names with typical Korean names but left the default ones in as well.
- I'm not certain if the korean localization uses the common cultural lists names or has a separate one in hangul.

ONLY USE ONE FILE.

Overrides

The mod (whichever you use) overrides the following resources:
sims.sim_spawner.Tuning.xml
sims.sim_spawner.SimSpawner.SimData.xml

Compatible 1.103.250.1020

Indian-female_first_names
Indian-last_names

Indian-male_first_names
Islander-female_first_names
Islander-last_names

Islander-male_first_names

Japanese-female_first_names

Japanese-last_names

Japanese-male_first_names

Moroccan-female_first_names

Moroccan-last_names

Moroccan-male_first_names

ENGLISH-RANDOM_NAME-female_first_names
ENGLISH-RANDOM_NAME-last_names ENGLISH-RANDOM_NAME-male_first_names