Well, now that I've "grown up" (-snort-) a little, I almost ALWAYS use "Link", but when I first started playing the Zeldas, I would enter in goofy names, in hopes to hear them say my name in dialogue, and see if it was funny. (for example): In Twilight Princess, the very beginning of the game uses Epona's name a lot. I would mess with this and name her "my pants" or "your ***" or something along those lines. At one point the one dude says "Hey where's [Epona]?".... and Ilia says "I washed [Epona] for you" ..... so I would make it say stupid stuff like "I washed your *** for you" and "Hey, Where's my pants?" and so on and so forth. xD
But yeah, if I didn't use the default names, then that means I was being a goof, and fuddling around with dialogue. xD
I never used my own name..... Who would?
er- that is to say- Females..... if a female who has a clearly-female name, uses her name- then that would be a little strange xD
Link always being called by a female name just kinda sounds strange to me.
Though, if I ever had done that, it wouldn't matter, because my name is Shannon. Shannon is a unisex name.
(Males named Shannon are usually in Britain/Europe-area though)