What did you name your Shepard?

Naming my Shepard “Commander” was pretty amusing

Eh, I just name him after myself or one of my kids at this point. If it was possible for the first name to be said in-game I'd probably care more.

German.

Seasons, because Seasons don't fear the Reapers

I named my FemShep Kate, after Kate Mulgrew.

On my current run with Femshep I gave her the name “Aoife” cause I like Irish names and my headcanon for this run is that nobody calls her by her first name because people struggle with Irish names and don’t know how to pronounce it.

I’ve been off and on learning the Irish language for the last few years so in my head my Shep knows how to pronounce her name but she gets frustrated with her colleagues and friends not getting it right so she just has them all call her Shepard or Commander.

I named my guy Mark, after My dad

John because that is literally my name and I played a Soldier.

Then I started trying out the different classes and I named my Shepard accordingly.

Evan Shepard the Engineer.

Ian Shepard the Infiltrator

Vance Shepard the Vanguard

Sen Shepard the Sentinel

And John Shepard for Adept. I hadn't thought to change the names until after trying the Adept class.

Alastair Bismarck Shepard

My name, obviously. Oglethorpe Van Cumgutter the Fourth.

First name: Shifty Second name: Looking

My first play through I just named my Shepard after myself. Now I pick names to differentiate between which play throughs I’m doing.

Like Renee Shepard for a renegade run.

Right now I’m doing Kira Shepard. I took the name from Death Note because it means killer, and Kira Shepard is trying to get as many people/squad/crew mates killed as possible lol.

Femsheps: Veronica, Marin

Brosheps: Adrian, Noah

Games I usually go with Khaelin, don't know why but it stuck during World of Warcraft as a Blood Elf Paladin. If I play a female I change it to Khailina. (In my head their siblings.)

I'll counter your Jacob with Miranda.

Had a nice oops moment when Mass Effect 2 started.

Richard, because Dick Shepard makes me laugh

I actually like the default Jane.

Vincent. I dunno why but I use that name for most ingame characters I play. It just sounds so cool.

I'm a Shepard, myself, so I named Shep after me a lot.

Why in the world would you name him Jacob

Viktoria.

I don't really know why, I just thought it fit the Shepard I made.

I was into lost when the first game came out so I used Jack for my first run.

The favorite name I had was Shepard Shepard

Second place goes to my first renegade Shepard: Spoiler

I always just stick with John

Ben, as I had Benjamin Sisko from star trek in my head when creating the character for the first time. Ever since it's almost always that for regular playthroughs. Name and look. It's just what feels right now. It differs only for renegade or other specific runs where I try something different from my usual choices.

Malcom Shepard.

I’m using the Dragon Effect mod this play through so I currently have Cullen Shepard running around.

Dick Shepard. Then in Andromeda, I have Dick Ryder. For some reason I like naming my character Dick. I named my character that in almost everything Ive ever played.

<(*^*)> Shepard, :D Shepherd, Cthulu Shepard

If they're not going to say it, I may as well make it unpronounceable.

I'm sure others have done this but naming them "Commander" makes me sleep better at night.

The one I write my fan-fiction about is named Leia. I have over two dozen different Shepards. I've lost count on how many times I've played through the trilogy.

Cassiopeia. It's a very pretty name fitting for a badass heroine imo. She's also the one who I write about so she's my canon Shep.

Minerva.

She named herself (she's Earthborn and didn't have a given name) and thought it sounded cool.

I usually use the default names, with a middle initial so that I can differentiate between my characters

For Mshep: John, Ryan, Ethan, and Eric so far.

For Femshep only Jane.

Ishmael

John

:(

My main is Tiberius who is a Paragade with default Sheploo face Cade is my Renegade with TINY bit of Paragon

Girly-Pop Shep is Annika and she’s Paragon.

I had others but lost all my data so who knows anymore 🥲

Nathaniel James Shepard!

Cheryl

Man very creative names here.

Persephoni and Brutus

My tarantula and my dog

Nolan for Paragon. German for Renegade lol.

I used the default names for my first ManShep and FemShep playthroughs

So far, I've also had Philip, Rita, and Mark. Mark was to allude to Mark Meer and Mark Vanderloo, although he used a custom face

I named my Femshep Reina.

I named her Sam and then met Traynor in ME3.

John for Default Male Shepard, the default name suited him.

Arianna for Female Shepherd, I had a dream I was her and her first name was Arianna.

Sheppy

Jane. Every single time lmao

I go the JoJo route. Currently Joseph.

My actual first name for the male shep. Named my female shep Lexi. I like the femshep better.

Mr.C ,chupra clause.

Alena cause it's pretty much my go to name if I'm playing a red hair female character in video games

Hailey for my Femshep.

-My Parangon Vanguard was the default "John" Shepard

-My Renegade Femshep was named "Saray".

Wrex

I usually just use my first name. I don't know, I never really think about names.

Merlin, Michael, León, Séan

Chlöe, Jane (stuck with that one to see if Chakwas would call it)

Matthew, Andrew, Frederic, Jameson, Michael, etc.

Jennifer, Samantha, Riley, Abigail, Charlie, etc.

My paragons:

Alan-Name based in the first american in space. In my headcanon broshep is a descendant of that astronaut.

Amity-I did femshep in my first run and the name stick since

My two renegades have the default name

Necro Shepard

...it wasn't me being an emo teen, it was a reference to the Necrofriggians from Ben 10, since Big Chill is my favourite Ben 10 alien.

Alexander, Grant, Simo, and Jennifer for Femshep

First play through Grayson

Renegade Shep: Cain

2nd play through: Akira

Male - Shepard, that way when people are talking to me they are using my first name

Commander. I always kinda bothered me that no-one ever calls you by your first name, so I made it part of his backstory that he never had one. “Shepard” was a childhood nickname that stuck.

Cross

I use a shorthand to let me know who I was gonna romance and their morality for the playthrough. Currently that would be RenLiGaJvk

Male shep I used used Colin or the Default As for my female shep: Sarah

I named mine Lucine. It’s an Armenian name meaning "moon."

Sterling

Iolas (eye-O-loss), Ian, Liam, Toller

John, because it's essentially my name, and the basic name, plus, not many other main characters in the series have that name. Jack Shepard would work, but then you have Jack and a Lost reference.

Jane for female, cause basic, and Jennifer... For Jennifer Hale.

My favourite/canon femshep was named Jordan.

The only time I attempted to play male shepard, I named him Langston. He was going to romance Ashley, obviously.

I've had a lot of fem sheps, usually with old-fashioned names like Ophelia, Charlotte, Hope (a full paragon), Vincent, and Ingrid.

Barry. Every game I play it's Barry, usually followed by DaBro or Broski if I get to pick my last name. That's not even remotely my real name. Had a teacher in school just straight up forget my name so he called me Barry for 6 months. Naturally everyone else started calling me that too, and I honestly thought it was hilarious so I started using it for everything

Arthur for my first Paragon playthrough and Lucius for Renegade

Male: Crux Shephard (never played the game so the name worked out) Female: AvA Shephard

Fiona. I use this name for most of my female main characters in game

My FemSheps name is Aster. I spent way too many hours scrolling through baby naming sites.

I don't see a reason to change it, but I also play default femshep so I consider her to be the character instead of my character

Ramses Shepard & Anies Shepard

Ramses was a paragon whereas Anies was Renegade.

Ripley

Elijah

Arthur

Femshep is either Tabitha or Iridian
Maleshep is my name or default

Kazuma, custom Asian male Shepard. His voice totally fits the character I made imo, and I can’t see Shepard any other way now.

Shepard Shepard

I name all my characters Schmucko

Wake John Shepard, random af from when u was in HS

NGL I wasn't sure what to name my FemShep so I let chatGPT pick and now her name is Alexis lmao, but this is my first playthrough of the trilogy. Probably gonna draw from mythological names for future playthroughs though, I feel like it would fit the sheer badassery that is Commander Shepard better lol

Maybe I'll draw from one of the in-game goddesses, or call her Siha, we'll see which way the wind blows when we get there 🤷‍♀️

No clue what I'd name broshep though 😂😂😂

Whenever I have the option to name a character in a game, it is always Bill Prescott or just Prescott. I don't even remember the exact reasoning behind it, it's just neuron activation now.

So for Mass Effect, I went with the name William P. Shepard.

FemSheps - Jennifer, Kirsten, AnnaSophia

BroSheps - Jonathan, Grant, William

Souad for the first one (femshep "natural" run, playing like I feel) . Broen for the second one (with a male Shepard closest to my real face) and Shen-Mi for the wildest one (femshep bitch renegade run). I always use these names in every rpg where I do different runs (ok, I used multiple names for 5 playthroughs in Bg3 lol)

My Engineer Shep? Dexter.

Because he’s a huge nerd who loves his fellow nerd, Tali.

Mallory, after the late great Jessica Walter, who all my Shepards seem to turn into at some point.

I've had several 😆, most of them named after gemstones

However, my most recent one (and also canon one) is named Kassandra, after the mythical prophetess.

Kassandra is a prophetess at first favored by Apollo, but when she spurns his advances he curses her foresight so no one will believe her predictions.

I found it appropriate given the fact no one believes Shepard about the Reapers until it's far too late.

I named my Shepard Tzipporah

Sacha (default guy) Denki (Kaidan femshep) Insin (Insanity run)

There's a couple of others, but I can't remember them enough. Ones a Liara romance one and probably named something starting with L or whatever.

I name mine Wrex

Male Shep: Apollo Fem Shep: Artemis

Femshep is Ellie, Broshep is Riley. 

When I was a kid and played mass effect for the first time I called him Pissmaster be because I was a kid with kid humor.

I still name him pissmaster every time I start a new game and I have over 41 saves called Pissmaster Shepard that I used to organize by date and level lol

I go with a different name each playthrough.

BroShep was Jack (and yes I romanced Jack), and Kal (romanced Miranda).

FemShep has been: Jax, Sam, Sarah

I made mine look as scruffy as possible and named him "scrungo."

Bella is my favorite and headcanon-official Shep I've had, and Alex is my current.

Additionally, my favorite and headcanon-official Ryder I've had was Alessia.

I name my female Shep Dusk, and my male Shep Axel.

Each Shepard has a different name.

My current Shepard is called Kendra. The next one will be named Xavier.

I think during my first playthrough I named her "Commander" and during the second playthrough I just went with my own name.

Commander is my default though.

I name every first character of every game I play either ham, or some iteration of Kenny Loggins. I’m playing ME1 for the first time so I named the commander Kenilogyns. She’s pretty cool.

I like to name her based on how I make her look. Eris, Nyx, Arsin, Rose, things like that

First time playing through as a female Arana

I named my femshep Astoria

Kara Shepard after my other favourite sci fi lady (Kara Thrace/Starbuck)

Bingus.

I named mine Sarah. It's my favourite girl's name (from Kerrigan, i think), and if I ever have any daughters, i'd like it to be incorporated somehow :)

Named mine "Solomon" because I was briefly obsessed with Solomon Grundy. Made Kasumi's mission funny.

My Second FemShep is Daenera Shepard (GOT/ASOIAF) Second MaleShep is Jason.

I usually go with commander or shepherd

Soldier: John/Jane Infiltrator: Axle (Male) Adept: Luna (Female) Vanguard: Rock (Ruthless Earthborn Renegade) Engineer: Kira (Japanese Engineer)

Whoever was the hero in my last sci-fi watch. I'm very lazy

Shepard

My go-to is James or Jamie for mshep, and Jane for fshep, but I've had a Keith and Valorie as well.

Rudraveer 

 Meaning - 'Rudra' is the fierce aspect of Lord Shiva in Hinduism and anyone who goes against Rudra gets obliterated due to the God's sheer ferocity and power. Rudra is also the God who eradicates obstacles for his devotees by completely uprooting their problems in a ferocious manner.

'Veer' means brave, courageous hence, 'Rudraveer' symbolizes the attribute of my Engineer War Hero Shepard being as brave as the fierce aspect of Lord Shiva where the Reapers do not stand a chance against him and where Shep prevails no matter the odds while ending clearing the problem once and for all.

Commander Roy Shepherd.

Bonus: Silas Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall and Lorelai Trevelyan, Inquisitior.

Winston for my first playthrough then Sterling Archer for my Archer RP playthrough

Pie, always.

various names, last 3 were all V, because of Cyberpunk lol

i named my femshep kara because i thought it fit her

I named her Buffy, which might sound ridiculous but it is what it is 😂

My femshep is Ekaterina Shepard.

Femshep: John

Broshep: Jane

God.

I never know how to name my characters so I use to grab the closest thing by me and quickly seek for a name there. My first Shepard was named Ellen after Ripley from an Alien DVD, my second was named Maïa from a book, and the third was named Shara from Star Wars : Shattered Empire.

Leilah

Ack. So many names, FemSheps- Aletys, Ferrica, Indira - I mostly managed to make her look East Indian, Carol - best friends name, Aria - yeah that was an oops in 2. 🤣

MShep - Matthew, Eric.

Mastacheef! Mastacheef Shepard. (He is a hero in two universes)

FemShep: Sally or Jane

BroShep: Kirk or Lance

Prikachu. That's my wife's nickname.

Jon. I prefer the spelling without the 'H'. I used the Amidala mod for my F!Shep run so I named that one Padme.

For my darkest timeline run allow me to present Ham Shepard, balding man in his late 40s with significant facial scarring and a shotgun. Particularly hilarious to see him flirting his way around and then just making all the worst choices

Chicken Tendies! Named my second one Charlotte lol

Lola, so that James is saying the right name after all.

I first named my shepherd my own name, Sofia, and then on the next play through i named her Andromeda. It was after Julie Andromeda Mao from the expanse because i was just watching that show for the first time then and i thought it was one of the prettiest names ever😸

You should never rename The Shepard.

I remember having had Iris, Jim, Towa, Kalyna, Dariya, and Cassandra. 🤭 This is not a comprehensive list.

Ippo D. Mara

I'm a writer and when it comes to choices-matter RPGs, I like to base my character in each playthrough on one of my existing characters and make choices in-game according to their personality, values, and backstory. This is how I enjoy things.

My Shepard is named Fenra, which was the name of my first ever DND character that I sadly only got to play as two times before the group stopped playing (it had come to some arguments between the DM and another player in the group)

I even tried my best to model my Shepard after my DND character, but her hairstyle isn't right (DND Fenra had a short, low Ponytail, in ME she just has short hair, but I always see her with the ponytail in my head)

I'm a basic person. John and Jane Shepard.

fuckbad

My femshep is named Eve usually. Broshep is default. 😄

I don't remember anyone using the first name even once. I left it as John and no one ever called me that. It was always "Shepard" or "Commander".

Spooder for Paragon shmeegle for renegade

Dude Shep - Arild

Fem Shep - Sachi

All of my Shepards have different names. Some of the ones I've used:

• Izumi
• Seong-mi
• Hikaru
• Hana
• Sabrina
• Amanda
• Alexa
• Angel
• Ziara
• Lilith
• Trevor
• Jason
• Damian
• Maxwell
• Adam
• Seth

My girls’ names for the femshep and Alan or my name for maleshep

Jane, because my brain won't let me change default names if they're given.

Beef. Why? Because I can.

Wrex

I went with the default name

MaleShep is John, for John Shepard of Stargate Atlantis.

FemSehp is Amanda or Sam, for Sam Carter of Stargate SG1.

I named my shep Athena after the goddess of Wisdom and war 😌

I named mine “Athena” - goddess of wisdom and warfare seemed pretty apt.

Not a lot of boring people like me, I see. I just give her my first name.