Naming your Characters

[Jackkdaw]

Been wonderin' this for some time now.

How do you guys come up with names for your characters?

Do you make up names?
Get them from somewhere- book/tv/song/etc. ?
Foreign languages?

Please, enlighten me.

ouo


I know for me, personally, most of my names are interesting names I've found in the Bible. (Such as Manasa, Manoah, Ashera, Molek, etc.)
Or something based off an interest of mine- like my fursona, Jackdaw is named after the ship from Assassin's Creed 4.

So,
How 'bout y'all?

[OreoHeroz]

Me..I just make them up. (Like: Kavern, Arakia, Adro, Knux, Zireal, etc.) I've lately noticed most of my character's names end with i's. (Ryevi, Joki..I can't think of them right now 3x) Sometimes, I'll take them from the Bible, but it's rare since me gusta making them up.

But sometimes, I wonder if the names are an offence or a bad thing in a different language. .o.

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Ellemane
Well, my religion is Pagan. (Don't start a fight with me ya guys please >-<) and my family are wiccans as well as me. My wiccan name is Bellia (Beautiful) Klia (Fortune) Ellemanae (Element). I'm an extremely spiritual person so I chose my char's name to be Ellemanae.
Das my storeh.

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Ellemanae
Well, my religion is Pagan. (Don't start a fight with me ya guys please >-<) and my family are wiccans as well as me. My wiccan name is Bellia (Beautiful) Klia (Fortune) Ellemanae (Element). I'm an extremely spiritual person so I chose my char's name to be Ellemanae.
Das my storeh.
I usually get my ideas from like thoughts, books, songs, and movies.

[Vespian]

I practically wing it most of the time and make up my character's names (such as Vespian, Rauven, Valkiin, etc). However, I always have a base that'll help me come up with the new name via switchin' the words around or addin' a letter or two.

Caspian = Vespian
Raven = Rauven
Falkiin (a username one of my acquaintances used to use) = Valkiin

Ehheh, I think ye' get the picture, aye? As for the middle/last names, I technically use a simple word that comes from another language.

Vespian Soule (Soul, French) Vahlok (Guardian; Dovahzul)
Rauven Vale (Hollow; French) Secer?tor (Reaper; Romanian)
Valkiin Vilineous Schnitter (Reaper; German)

[Jackkdaw]

Ah, very interesting.
Thank you three for sharing. I love how creative people are with naming their characters. That's awesome. <3

[Crin]

Most of the time, like most of y'all have said, I just combine letters to mimic sounds that I personally like in names and what not. Usually there's an "ae" in there or a name ending with a or i. Then again things like my pen names, Emecay or Crjinnyx (Crin) were completely random when I thought of them.

I also found that naming characters after very basic things can be interesting and unique in an odd way. I've had characters named Chart, Henna, even Tape. As much as I love random letter combinations, sometimes very simplistic nouns like that work out nicely.

[RastaForLife]

Personally I use words from different languages, colors or words from specific religions (aka Rasta). If I am truly stuck, I will go to trusted old Google and look up unique names

[WolfQueen]

I mainly name my characters from reference. For example, Altserj was named after Alt-J, an indie band I was listening to when I created her.

Other times, I make the name up on my own. For example, Zylan was just a flash of idea in my head.

I used to name my characters by a foreign language all the time, but that seems cheesy now. Kiefer-Zahn is German for Jaw-Tooth (according to GT).

[AeropostaleWolf]

I used to RP on YouTube (I know, who knew there was RP there?) In my beginning stages of RP, and I really liked the names the users came up with. Auru, Pestilence, Cobalt, and I think Lean was one of them..? Anyhow, I just used a few names from my old YouTube buddies. Another way I figure out names is using other languages for them. I've used Aegean and Ionian (after the seas near Greece) for two of them. I tend to get a few of them from books and songs! I used Rontu for one of them, and Rakuen for another (Rakuen is a song from Wolf's Rain soundtrack). And one last method is getting them from offline. xD Super lazy way, but it saves me lots of time.