Mass Effect: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Shepard

6. The Top 5 Female And Male Shepard Names

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Although it's ultimately pretty much a redundant choice, as everyone will still call you 'Shepard' even when you've got a first name, it's really interesting to see how players chose names for their hero.

After Mass Effect 3 was released, Bioware sent out information relating to the top names people chose for Shepard.

Interestingly, the top female name is Sarah, while the top male name is Jack. Maybe everyone subtly was influenced by Lost, which had a character named Jack Shephard (bonus H), who also had a wife called Sarah?

If you chose to play as FemShep, the top choices for the names, in descending order of popularity, are Sarah, Kate, Alice, Jessica and Alex.

If you chose to play as MaleShep, the names, again in descending order of popularity, are Jack, James, Chris, Alex and Michael.

What did you choose as the name for your Shepard? There's got to be someone out there who called them something mad like Theodore or Percival, right?

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Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.