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OK so I got absolutly tabled at the weekend playing a 1000 point games with Space Wolves against Orks. Admitedly this is only my second game in over a decade so I'm not to unhappy.

I found that after the game I went home and had an urge to paint up my "last man standing". A Rune Priest Terminator. And whilst painting decided on a name for him.

Corvax Dyn-diwethaf-sefydlog (Last-Man-Standing)

I was wondering if anybody else has done this and what are some of your colourful names.

I call my venerable dreadnought "the revenant".

I call my ork warboss with PK Gutsmasha III

All my Terminators are named so preform well some don't

I've named every single dude in my SW army o.o (just in case, under the base there's a paper with said name xD)

No as I play IG there are no last man standing, just dead men or disposebal hive scum

I name cool stuff, or good stuff that won't die, although some can be hard to remember, such as my Empire captain, Rudiger Von Meinstadt Baronshwatrzher!

No.

yeah, though I kind of stopped for no reason :/

I named every sergeant and independent character in my Crimson Fists. I've named a handful of officers in my IG army, and the Lords in my Iron Warriors. When I still did Space Wolves I named every Wolf Guard member as well.

Kind of, mine earn their names. For instance my GK dread after 3 turns of close combat/trying to kick a lictor to death, the lictor rending and penatrating then only scorings 1s and 2s (fortituded and bad rolls yay) needless to say, he earnt his damn name: Brother "Open Casket" Ivo

Every Captain and Commander in my Blood Angels army are named. Haven't got round to the sergeants yet....

Pretty much everyone in most of my armies has a name, though I haven't settled on squad leader names for my GK army yet.

Some of my favorites:
Elan Morin Tedronai and Ishar Morrad Chuain, my Eldar army's Farseers
Skaldi Blackstaff, my WoC army's Sorcerer
Tassarath the Curious, Wraithlord
Furyk Karede, Grey Knight Grand Master
Saris Revant, Inquisitor

I give lots of my soldiers names, when they die, I get rid of their names and make them a nameless grunt, only earning a name when they do something notable. I keep track of some of the more notable guys I name and their actions, stuff like a guardsman who managed to destroy 5 vehicles in death or glory situations until he was killed, or a Demolisher that racked up a lot of tank kills and earned the name "The Emperor's Retribution". Hell I had one guardsman who survived an absurd number of battles before finally dying. Being too attached to him I decided to convert him into a Marbo count as, paint a very thin coat of white paint on him and called him "The White Death" fluff is that he is some avenging spirit now or a saint or something. I figure it is tame compared to the Sanguinor.

Most of my higher ups get names. About it.

-My Archon is called Ardath Dei
-My Chief Librarian is Epistolary Vassos
-My WIP Sons of Orar army will (hopefully) all be named with their titles and all that written on to their bases as I did with Vassos

I find it hard not to name my guys, after investing time in buying, modelling, painting and then later gaming them. It just makes it much more personal and "real" to me.

Damned if I'm naming all my Dark Eldar though, that'd be impossible!

After my last defeat in battle I called my commander Numpty.

One of my good friends (and a fellow Guard player) would run a Primaris Psyker in his lists, using a drunk and half naked clown model with a bottle of booze. The booze was painted bright colours and represented his force weapon (or bottle). We called him BoJangles. He never failed to either kill himself or shoot some absurd number of shots with the lightning power. He never performed 'average', it was either die embarassingly, or kill everything in sight. Such is the problems of running a depressed, alcoholic clown as your regimental HQ.

I've named the lord of my warband, all of his chosen, and Dreadnoughts - it just seemed right.

Bores

My Company Officier is 5-6-01.

I name my Leman Russes when they do something awsome:

Skykiller-A LRMBT that took out a Valkyrie that all out'ed with a single battle cannon shot on the first turn.

Old Faithful-A LR Executioner that has never been destroyed in a game, once it was the last unit I had on the field when the game ended.

I call my chaos Land Raider "Doom of the Emperor". In 7 years of gaming it's only ever died once, and it was against another chaos player. a couple games ago it soaked up 38 longfang shots and only lost one lascannon.

Like most people, I tend to name my important units (like my company commander), and my vehicles (not transports, but actual tanks, etc.), but nothing else.

My current guard commander is named Daxos P. Clinton, because the names have a greek theme, and the name of clinton is associated with high-ranking gentleman officers. My tanks all have goofy names that sound like people would name their tanks that. A basilisk named Lord Excellence, for example, and russes named High Fidelity and Steel Badger and the like.

Whenever I'm playing a special character, I always try to make the name an anagram of the actual special character's name. For example, Al'Rahem for me became Rhamael.

Well I run a themed Imperial Guard army. It's a co-ed combined arms regiment, so I rename all of the special characters that I use. Some are more jokes than anything, but they work. For back drop (on two of the characters) the planet of EnVer (home world of my regiment) turned out to be a Necron tomb world. For 5 years the people of that planet rebelled against the Necrons until help finally arrived after hitting a nasty warp storm. Any way here are my character names.

Creed - General John Conner (converted to look like the terminator character from T2).
Kell - "Uncle Bob" (I converted (mildly converted to look like the terminator, but in Cadian gear)
Nork Deddog - Dork the Dog
Harker - Sergeant First Class Kara Black
Marbo - Corporal Lisa Abrom (Black's twin sister)
Straken - Colonel Shana Starvein
Alrahem - Lt. Sirmier
Pask - Commander Aaron Plinkston

The only character that I almost never use is Sergeant Bastonne and I keep the name the same. Mostly because I like it.

As some of you might have noticed a lot of special characters are fem-guard. I had time for conversions and enough counts as models to do the trick.

My Farseer, Autarch, Warlocks and Exarchs all have names. All the rest usually die far too often to continually re-name!

Iranna.

My Commander ShadowSun is named the Arbiter

I have a BA sniper named Lucky. He spent a whole week on the carpet of a heavily trafficked area. He wasn't stepped on once...

That's more than lucky!

You just reminded of my Kabalite Warrior "sergeant". I left him in my flgs for about 4 weeks, went in for a game, found that I didn't have him, asked around and he'd been put behind the till.

The manager said he was about to chuck him out as no one had claimed him! So I reckon I should name him Tra' Shbin or something...

I name all sargs most IC and anything that just rocks.

BTW, in the OP title, it's "Heroes" not "Hero's".

No, but they all have back-stories none-the-less. Somehow fluff is easier to remember then names, so they're all 'this guy who did that'