I'd like this question answered myself.

This feature would be phenomenal.  I had a large text doc of fictional planet names in GC2, and I think it would be cool to have recognizable opponent/unit/city names here.  If you want to share what you are thinking about creating and what it would effect (ie soldier names, city names, etc.), I bet the community would be able to come up with a list fairly quickly.

this would be really awesome

Especially considering the amount of lore the publishing company helped create, a list of names for each faction would give a less sandboxy feel to the game and more ability for modding specific factions.

Sounds great, but please leave this as an option, I actually like the random names!