Obviously the correct way to pick names for a math problem is alphabetically, so you can refer to the people with A, B, C etc in your notes. [name_f]Or[/name_f] E for the one with “evil” intentions, L for the one who lies and such.
In high school my entry for a programming competition had [name_m]Alan[/name_m], [name_m]Bruce[/name_m], [name_f]Charlie[/name_f], [name_m]Dan[/name_m], [name_m]Ezra[/name_m], [name_m]Fabio[/name_m], [name_f]George[/name_f], [name_m]Hugo[/name_m], [name_m]Ilja[/name_m], [name_m]Kevin[/name_m], [name_m]Luke[/name_m], [name_m]Martin[/name_m] & [name_m]Neville[/name_m], “alphabetically because it’s common in math problems and all male to protest gender tokenism”, a comment that earned me a spot on the List of Fun Things We Found in Entries