OMG, that was my favorite part! I loved changing the names of the characters, I remember naming Locke "France" for some reason...
It is a female name... :P and a country name!

I also remember my mom playing the game and naming Relm after me because I was an artist. She also named some of her characters after her sister, her sister's hub, herself and her hub's name... Which is somewhat funny :P

My dad would give the characters strange names and he would put them all in capitals. The only one I remember really is KOTEX and it was Cyan. Why the heck did my dad call him like that? I'll never know.
I did ask him once and he started laughing and telling me that I remembered weird things.

Right now, my characters mostly have my friend's name and some names I enjoy hearing...

As a child, I would name them all sorts of fun names, but it was so long ago I can't even remember them, it's so sad.