User blog comment:Cavia porcellus/Help needed with naming families/@comment-5385060-20130224171158

Sounds like an interesting story. As for names, I suggest looking at name sites. Or, since with most pre-made sims, they are very punny in names. Something I find useful for naming just about anything, story or games character wise, is going into Google Translator, and picking a language from the country I want them to be from, then make a list of words that describe them (a new word, on a new line), then traslating into that language. The one that I like, becomes their last name.

As for first names, I'm not sure about those. It depends what names you like really. Baby names sites help a lot. Though, at the minute, I'm totally into making up names from plants, the common names of them or making my own from the latin name.