Success, interesting question.
I know McRoberts' Reply was a special case.
There was a suggestion for naming the Varsities at Nav School and my suggestion for Cambridge colleges was 'best' but nothing came of it.
In the 60s, with centralized servicing I think it more or less died out with none of the Vulcans named. The VC10s were different and probably named by the great and the good.
Nimrods in the 70s were also anonymous. Now I think the Shacks on 8 were named on a particular theme but whether it was aircrew or ground crew I don't know. I think it was the ground crew as they owned the aircraft and only loaned it to us.