When I was a kid I would always name my characters after people I knew in real life, but now at the ripe old age of 20 I just leave them with their default names. The only exception that I can think of is Tidus in FFX, because they never say his name anyway.

It's weird to go back to an old save file and see that you named the main female in the game after a girl you had a crush on in the 3rd grade.