" We have recorded a thousand different popular names "

I wonder if they'll do multiple nicknames for really common names like "Joseph" (my name). Not sure whether I would choose Joseph or Joe. If it's relegated to one stupid moment in the game and not for the whole game, then I couldn't give less of a shit about this.

@rongalaxy: Seph, works for Joseph and Sephiroth, the perfect name.

Hoping for Ian! But i'll be a bit bummed because I usually name my fallout characters after camera names. Like Elan Minolta or Nikkon Pentax

I kind of hope they actually just use Vocaloid, or one of the crappy text-to-speech things from 10 years ago, and awkwardly insert that into every line where someone references you - that would be the best. I mean they still all kind of look/move like robots anyway! :P

As for names that have multiple spellings but are pronounced the same, I'm sure it will be quite easy (though time-consuming) for them to add all of those to the database and link them to the same voice samples, or just show a list of the available names that are close to what you typed in and let you pick the pronunciation you want. I'm really curious to see how this all works, mostly if you aren't using a name they accounted for, but yeah I seriously doubt I'm going to name my Fallout 4 character after myself even if my name is one of the ones they recorded so I'm sure I can find something in the list that I'm happy with.

Also, I don't think it would be too surprising if the recorded names are actually used by a lot of people in the wasteland, considering these games tend to only have a handful of actors doing the voices for the general population. That's not a criticism, I totally understand why they do that, but it does mean it wouldn't be too difficult to implement in a bigger way - unless they're going for more variety this time. I do expect that it won't be wide-spread, but it's not completely out of the realm of possibility.

I feel like people are underestimating the popularity of most names. Probably over 90% of the people you've ever met have a name that's in the top 1000.

The chances of my name appearing there are about a billion to one, so nothing has really changed for me.

My name is Mohammad. Eff "U" and "E" Mohammed/Muhammads.

I bet NPCs don't use your name and Companions do. I would wager that they probably just yell it out at random times like "Brandon! Over here!" Or "Brandon! Wait up!"

I feel like that would be the easiest implementation.

So your birth name is Cashis Cleuy?

@dadjumper: as a Callan there is a 100% chance Callum will be as close as I get

Based on what I read in an interview from someone who attended quakecon, the name list is quite varied. The guy was as excited as could be because he could have fuckface as his name. I'm assuming that they didn't record every line with the different names as well. Seeing as most people don't use your name in the middle of a sentence it would make sense that it pulls it from the list the goes on with the conversation.