I put exactly what you said, using Copy-paste, but when I try to talk to this event, it gives me the noMethodError. Here are screenshoots. (the second has some words in spanish if you wanna know what they mean just tell me.)
Maybe my version's $game_actors script was modified before distributing it. Could you send me the game_actors script to compare?
Well if we can't find a solution I will have to erese the option to choose the name :unsure: