Monkey Names

"Name a single monkey from each Monkey Tower type! The first placed monkey of any type will be the named monkey and record its individual lifetime stats! Edit monkey names in the Upgrades panel in-game, and check stats via the Main Menu Profile."

- Official description of "Monkey Names"

 is a feature that was first added on Version 19.0 in Bloons TD 6. It is unlocked through the Trophy Store, purchasable for 50. It can be found in the Games & UI category of the Trophy Store.

When given to the first placed tower of their type, it renames them to a custom name for all future games, up to 20 characters. Renamed towers will also appear in the player's profile with their own unique public stats. Due to issues with public visibility, names that contain inappropriate or offensive words are filtered. Each word in a name has the first letter capitalized, and can only contain letters and spaces. No other characters are allowed, including apostrophes.

With Monkey Names, statistics dedicated to the towers themselves will be visibly recorded.

Starting from Version 29.0, this will also apply to Heroes too. Hero skins are treated separately from their normal counterparts, so can be renamed based on skin (e.g. Original Quincy can be renamed as "Son of Quincy", while his first two skins can be separately named "Evolved from Quincy" and "Wolfpack Quincy", for instance). Starting from Version 30.0, naming Heroes is no longer possible, but all statistics relating to them will still be recorded.

Summary
Obviously, as with most Trophy Store items, there is little-to-no advantage of having Monkey Names, but it is worth utilizing Monkey Names for the benefit of yourself and others. Feel free to give your first monkeys any desirable name, but keep them PG.

Tips

 * Because of its visibility to public profiles, it is possible to use this to form short messages to other players.
 * Monkey Names is also handy for use in Co-Op Mode to produce short messages to other players in a similar way to on public profiles, although Monkey Names cannot be edited during Co-Op Mode due to syncing reasons.
 * You can try using a very specific order of naming all towers, which should help assist with special identity and minimize potential instances of accounts impersonating yours.
 * Simply name a monkey to any name, including the default name, to put a tower on the list of Named Monkeys. This will allow stats for a certain tower type to become public. If you don't want the towers' stats to go public on your profile, simply uncheck the checkboxes on said tower type.
 * One could name their monkeys based on the hotkeys on their computer, making it easier to remember what hot keys are for each monkey.

Trivia

 * When a player who has Monkey Names inherits a teammate's first tower of a type due to that teammate disconnecting, that tower gains the player's chosen name, sometimes resulting in 2 named towers. If that tower is already named, it keeps its old name.

Banned words
Besides obvious profanity, inappropriate anatomy-related words, racist words, and names of certain controversial alt-right terminology (especially relating to the Third Reich), here are a list of banned Monkey Names, often due to either the filter algorithm or due to filtering a seemingly innocent word.
 * "Acid" was a banned Monkey Name pre-28 version. Link.
 * "Grape" was also a banned name pre-28 version. Link.
 * "Damn" is banned later on in the game, but seems to be added to the filter as of Version 23.2, which meant that some players were still able to keep their tower name to contain this word before the filter change. Link.