How did you come up with your characters name?

[wolf-wonders2239]

I'm not sure if many other people do this, but honestly I like to find really interesting and pretty words that sound good on the tongue such as:
Verdict, Apracity, Diesel, Mercy, Repo, Prevulsion etc

Some of them are real words, some aren't. Some characters can be totally unrelated to their word-name thing, but hey - it's pretty LOL. As long as it doesn't mean something offensive in another language SNORts

[Burnwolf]

Usually I have all of my characters named after certain elements or celestial bodies (i.e. Cobalt, Lunar, and Stratus) If I cant come up with any I just go for the generic names like my characters Ace and Dakota

[Vwang]

When I was new I had to make a pretty lame name for my first character who is Wingedflyer

[Felfonz]

If I don't use a baby-names website (usually Behindthenames) and find something Nordic/Russian, I've either come up with a random name from a random word (like Keeto from Ketose or Remlin from... well I just thought of that one actually) or found a name I really like from some random source (I like the name Fyodor, as in Fyodor Dostoevsky; Lance, as in the guy from Voltron; Rueben, as in the guy from the bible).

I don't have much of a habit.

[Psilocybin]

My main char, Teva, is literally the name of sandal. Teva is a brand of outdoorsy, hiking sandal, but it's pretty name so whatevs.
As for Puck, I'm a huge hockey fan, so Puck seemed fitting. xD

[FlyingGrass]

If a name pops into my head at any time of the day, then I'll look it up on the web to ensure I am not about to name my character a rude word.

If I'm too out of names, then I use a name generator before plugging the name I find into a search engine.


My main character, Gui, was named differently. I was thinking of tech/game-related names when Graphical User Interface came to mind, I liked how the name fit my mech and it was a short name too. Gui's name is an acronym.
I put the "F" there since many times have I seen others getting chars' genders wrong, and the "MechCat" is there since my mech was sometimes mistaken for a lion.

[Insoholic]

Great topic idea, Reaper! +floof

• Hayes (main character): Being a Hayes Grier (an american internet personality) fan, I loved the name and decided to use it for my main character.
• Varjak Boghosyan: I actually stole this one from the television series "Pretty Little Liars". As for "Boghosyan", this is an Armenian surname, particularly associated with Western Armenia. I really liked it and decided to use it as a family name for Varjak.
• Chanteloup: To be honest, I have no idea how I came up with this name. It probably has something to do with my "Google Researches".
• Keeshan: There's a NPC named "Corporal Keeshan" in "World of Warcraft" and I guess I really liked the name.
• Enjol: Enjolras is a fictional character who acts as the charismatic leader of the Friends of the ABC in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. I loved the name and shortened it to "Enjol".

[Hakumi]

Oo, interesting topic here c:
For some of my main characters... The name would usually pop into my head. One in particular being Pandeer.
What basically happened was that I was editing a chibi version of a panda character that I had and while going through the items, I accidentally clicked the buck antlers and boom, the creation of this brown floof was born. As for the naming part, since it reminded me of a buck / deer as well as it being a Panda, I wanted to combine the two together somehow and 'Click' the name Pandeer was born.
Lol. And this was all by accident also so I guess when it comes to me naming my character, it kinda just flows out once I create them c:

[Wyldercat]

Love this topic! It's always interesting to see how people come up with things like this. For me I either browse this handy website, or have an interesting name pop into my head and stick it to a character. Usually I use 2000 names for roleplays or one-off characters, however, for my mains I'd much rather come up with a more unique or uncommon name that comes to my mind naturally. It just feels more genuine for my "mascot characters" rather than picking a name from a database.

I also take personality and character design into consideration. For instance, Scuttle is a shifty and intelligent but scatterbrained young street cat, Pip is the tiny shape of a friend, Mako is a type of shark which would fit my gnoll ranger nicely, etc.

[Faeris]

aw jeez this is my first post on here. welp, too late now :p

Since I'm starting to play the game again (yay) I only have two characters, so this'll be pretty short.

Thaed: Anagram for death (pretty much just backwards with the 't' and 'h' switched around). His preset features his head as a skull and... well, why not? He doesn't really look grim or whatever but I liked the sound of it and it's spelled quite nicely so I went ahead and used it. It kinda stuck after that.

Rosky: One of my irl friends was spamming me earlier as I was away from my phone and they typed this, so I decided to use it as my second character's name. I was originally planning to use Lubec(a) because I saw it in my history book and thought it sounded nice, but I'll probably just use it for another character.

Last names are the hard part, however. I usually use behindthename or fantasynamegenerators for that.

I must admit that I'm planning to name a character Milk because milk is just... so darn good. So if you see a character named Milk sometime in the next 1-2 weeks, it's me. c;