Are you going to name your character Larry Bird Jr·? If not, what are you going to name him?

Bonus question: Did you name your P4 character Charlie Tunoku?

I'm going to name him Barry Tunoku. and yes I did name him Charlie Tunoku in P4.

I just went with good old Charlie.

I always just name the protagonist using my own name in my first playthrough; I'll usually use whatever's closest to a canonical name for a second playthrough (in this case, I think he goes by Akira Kurusu in the manga). So I'll use that!

Larry Bird Jr. really was an inspired choice. I can't go that route because I am that person that needs to have a 'canon' name or as close to it as possible, so I'm naming him Akira Kurusu after his name in the manga adaptation. I named P4 protagonist Soji Seta and then Yu Narukami on subsequent playthroughs. Because I'm boring.

I plan to name my guy "Chris Surfboard". I have no idea how I came up with this, but it just seems good to me.

I usually like to name my characters their canon name. Is Larry Bird Jr his canon name? I haven't been following much of this game because I want to go in as cold as possible.

I think I'll be going with my old Persona 4 standby: Miles Davis

Larry Bird

Sr.

If I remember right, the canon names of the P3 and P4 protagonists weren't officially set until some time after their respective games were actually released. (Only when the official manga adaptions came out, I think?)

That said, yes, Larry Bird Jr. is most definitely the official Atlus-canon name for him.

Will never be seen again

I think I'll name him "Crispin Slipstream" because that is a cool guy name.

I think I will come him Han something.

I prefer to name my Persona protagonists after Star Wars actors and then give them the same surname of Hara (an actual Japanese name, don't know what it means, but being called Hara-San sounded good to me)

Persona 3: Mark Hara

Persona 4: Alec Hara

And Persona 5: Harrison Hara!

Biden Tyme.

When I started my current P4 run, I was drunk looking at JObama memes.

I thought I was clever.

I won't use Larry Bird Jr. I did use Charlie Tunoku, that's canon as far as I'm concerned.

I named my P4 character Jason Kidd so naming my P5 character Jason Kidd Jr. would make some sense.

Bort.

My son's name is also Bort

Charlie 2noku. That, or Steve Harvey.

What about Sammy Davis Jr Jr?

Samael Lee or Lupin Lee

Make him the devil or the fictional thief that the persona is base on.

@metalsnakezero: Arsene Lupin jr. is pretty good... So many good options listed in this thread so far!

At some point in the quick look I thought I heard them say April Knife, so that's a hot contender.

Chuck Tuna

I usually pick a random Japanese name, maybe I'll go with Kaz Dojima

@redhotchilimist: That's the best name. I don't know if they actually said that in the quicklook or you just imagined it but I think you just won at names.

Given how everybody already thinks of him as a no-good delinquent for trying to save a woman from a drunkard, I guess I'll just go with "Righteous Goodman" to really rub it into their faces.

It means "meadow" or "field", and is spelled 原! :)

I named my Persona 3 protagonist Kirk Thornton, after the voice actor. Mostly just a whimsical joke, but I tried to justify it as the character being a foreigner living in Japan. Nothing in the story really conflicted with that notion, so yay!

For Persona 4 I decided to follow the rules a bit more and come up with a technically-Japanese name, and went with Kisuke Kisaragi. Kisaragi being the traditional word for February, and Kisuke being a super outdated name that has weird connotations with red-light districts. Thought the name sounded dumb enough to work.

Haven't thought about it for Persona 5 yet. Should probably go with another 'K' sound since I seem to have inadvertently done so twice already...

Fred West.

I'm thinking my character's gonna be "Dick Johnson".

I'm gonna name him Akira Kurusu. According to the Persona 5 manga (there is one, apparently), that's his official name.

Thanks! They probably said "April 9th", but I haven't been back to check.

I'll use my own name. Because I wish there was more anime in my life.

Kenpachi Ramasama.

I'll never do my math homework.

Thanks a lot man!

Ryo Kinoshita

Because he is awesome.

If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis!

I name every hero in a Zelda game "Link" so I'm gonna go with Akira Kurusu.

I did name my Persona 4 character Charlie Tunoku. Larry Bird Jr. seems like as good a name as any.

P4 - Samwise Toshiba

P5 - Meriadoc Nintendo

I like Lord of the Rings and Japanese company names.

If it can fit, Gary Zbyzko, Larry's lesser known Japanese brother.

Timothy Moisture, son of Saul Goode

I did go with Charlie in P4. This time I thought about it and I like English names mixed with Japanese names. like how Vinny did it with charlie Tunaku. The first name I came up with when I saw the main character was Travis and I looked at a Japanese name generator and got Tominaga. My names Thomas so having the first syllables of the last name rhyme with my name was a bonus for me. Thus Travis Tominaga is born.

I'll probably go with Jordan V. Bird. Better game than Larry Bird Jr. even though I liked the turnabout of Larry Bird being in the cage at the top of the screen in LBJr. The first game, Larry Bird, is the all-time classic, but I've never quite managed a kill screen.

I often name my characters Rasputin.

I've named every Persona character I've played Li Shenshun, in honor of the MC's alias from Darker Than Black. I just like the sound of it, got good word feel.

If I ever played a girl - never played P3P - she'd be named Misaki Kirihara, same reason.

@matsemann08: Never named my dude after Charlie. Might do that or Larry or Akira (the manga name) in a second playthrough.

Thinking of naming him Ryu Hayabusa for my first run of P5.