Now, we all come to a point in the process of writing where we just don't know what to name a character. This comes as a huge problem especially if the as such unnamed character is the MC. So, I thought I might start this little thread in hopes of generating some good ideas for people. Below are a few of my own. They're more fantasy like but still good. Check them out and adopt as you like.
Cyena
Fellan
Tagart
Ostia
Galander
Plia
Ker
Deuner
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Some interesting, normal names, swiped from my spam folder. (I've named characters from spam before. It's a surprisingly useful resource for randomly-generated names.)
Orville N. Joseph
Dexter Sharp
Dominick Cross
Randolph Piper
Rae C. Darden
Rhonda Shelton
Lovetta Jelinek
Abby Gerome
Elvis Stanley
Kelly Z. Holliday
Ernestine Meuller
Erwin Len
Aaaand that's all I can be bothered for, but I might come back with more later. Woot, a use for spam!
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Continuing with the spam theme...I kept the subject lines I found interesting.
Ponce Adalbert unreasonably dissuade
Hugh O. Salas
Randell Wade Philip - 100% results
Gertie Bauer forethought combustion
Joanna A. Sears
Lionel serial carpet
Frost N. Neville
famm aza FROM RACHEL
Emmanuel curd
Gray X. Joseph nuptial
Dorothy Woodruff
Dickson S. Samson roar lifeline
Tilly K. Norman Fwd: advertisement-7a712e85161.pdf
Elisabeth S. Parker
Lowry Sophie washcloth
Brady Bobbie
Gareth Jones
Stephens Christina derive horror
Virginia Evelina
Tobias W. Bolton
Downey Sarah
Miles Bessie
Dyer
Annabel Ferguson
Joe Solmonese
Kamara Yusef
Campos J. Stanislas
Edmund Wood
I love the name Ponce Adalbert, but I've never been able to fit him into a story.
Emmanuel Curd could also be neat.
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"Dominick Cross" is a great MC name. I love it. I may just use that unless I come up with something better, which is unlikely.
"Ponce Adalbert" is indeed awesome, in a Don Quixote kind of way: "I am Poncé Adalbert, scourge of the west!"
I am so working that into my story somehow.
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I deliberated upon Sieglinde Stark and very very briefly on Sieglinde Spitznogle for the name of my main character, but both are pretty ridiculous sounding, so they're up for adoption ;)
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Okay, since I took a name (and I might another) here, here's a few I found that I think sound good, but don't have a use for:
Toni Hoyt
----------Hilary Jefferies
Arlene Merritt
Miranda Gedman
Insert witty comment here.
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This thread will perhaps save my story many times over. I have this thing with names that start with J. No idea why, I just do. The only people I know that well with names that start with J are Johns, and I have never used that name. >_>
Random J names (first name only):
----------Jack
Joe
Jesse
Jessica
Jeremy
Jerome
Jackie
Jasper
Jordan
James
Jose
John
Jenny
Joy
Jesus (Spanish pronunciation or religous figure, YOU CHOOSE!)
Jeff
Jagger
Jerry
Second year at NaNo. Maybe I'll actually start on time this year and get it done?
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Some of my spam names
Coleman
----------Young Krum
Kerri Madison
Alexander Osbourne
Jodi Duran
Jose
Ben Hurt
Antonia Atkinson
Ash Brie
Regana Tenisha
Faithe Jett
Cathleen Looney
Elbert
Celeste London
Bobby
Suzanne Ashley
Nettie Howell
Rosemarie Finley
Rodger Addison
Anthony Schrock
Katherine Kiser
Lorraine Ledford
Lorenzo Lang
Geraldine Belcher
Tara Tatum
Archie Easley
Cecil Briggs
Rosie Harrington
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Just some random names:
Patti Elizabeth Beckwith
Evan Darnell Parker
Cody Millhouse
Rowan Lloyd Foxworthy
Xavier Heinrich van de Bogart
Milo Foxworthy
Max Bartholemew Quadgeley
Percy Tyreese Schmidt
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Okt 18, 2007 - 12 17
Yay for spam names!! I also work for a recruiting firm, so a lot of interesting names come across my desk daily!
Some of my favs that I've never been able to use:
Echo Wickenburg
Betty Baker
Pemberley Parker
Jaques Bellefontaine
Mary Katherine Hamilton
Trent Bennis
Emma Kensington
Charlene McBeal
Kenneth Upo
Kato Gutierrez
Skitt Jayko
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I'm going to be swiping names off this list of star names~
http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/
They're awesome if you're writing something with a fantastical bent to it, but don't want to resort to the bang-the-keyboard method of generating names.
----------I'm tired of calling stories "the story I'm writing now" or "the story with XXX in it" or "the story about XXX event". Come what may, this next NaNovel is going to have a working title...and that title shall be Baseball Until Further Notice.
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I'm taking these ones:):) Sadly I can't leave any becuase I'm horrible at names, which is why I'm adopting them:)
Cyena
----------Galander
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- Stargate SG-1
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If anyone is interested, I have an enormous Notepad file of potential villain/fantasy names. They're not labeled male/female, but include meanings. PM me and I'll send you the list -- I'd rather not murder the thread with a gigantic list of character names -- neatly alphabetized, of course.
----------Senioritis -- Four men in a coffeeshop. They write a novel.
Echo Flux -- Peasant girl saves the world with SCIENCE!
(That was NaNo 07. Screnzy?)
Ballroom Blitz -- The kind of highly-meta play that gets written by a student in Tech Theatre.
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Liliana Morse
Jordan Fowle
Lux Jones
Mercedes Dean
Leila Brookes
Maya Dangerfield
Roy Black
Franklin James
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I met a girl named 'Zenobia' (Nicknamed Zoe) once, and I always wished I could use it for a character, but it never seemed to fit (I don't write sci-fi or fantasy).
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Channa
----------Jael
Kyra
Prairie
Chantey
Saenna
Cello
Monroe Forde
Courage Hennessey
Ruth Parson
Hollywood Brown
"you did what? for how long? for HOW many cocoa pebbles?!?"
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(These names are best with fantasy settings)
Aza Merrivon (M/F)
Oneva Dews (F)
Sapphire Harwook (F)
Cassandra Merringston (F)
Bellona Hillis (F)
Orcus Avenuth (M)
Landeth Laverinth (M/F)
Chian O' Merell (M)
Ebara Orgon (M)
Savanath Mordell (M/F)
Marya Astellis (F)
Aail Artelling (M)
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I'm in love with the name Niamh (pronounced Nee-ve, not Nim) but it doesn't fit my character. It was her name for a while, but I kept calling her Norah both in my head and on the page. I actually do know a young girl named Niamh and she's adorable. It's A Gaelic name, if that helps at all.
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"To days of inspiration, playing hookey, making something out of nothing, the need to *express*, to communicate."-La Vie Boheme A, "RENT"
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Some random names I just thought of. (why can I never do this when I NEED a name?)
Lisa Shannon
Katherine Wolffe
William Court
Michael Cooper
DJ Ross
Rosalinda Dunn
Feel free to take them!
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Once, on an MMORPG forum, someone misspelt "red snails" and wrote it as "rad sniles." And I thought Rad Sniles would be the coolest name (or, more likely, nickname) to use for someone like a band manager, bouncer, club owner...someone in that kind of line of work. I dunno if I'll ever use it, so maybe someone else can get some use from it.
----------"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
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Brianna Rollins
Seth Dunn
Kelsey Robbin
Robyn Willis
Chastity St. James
Dylan Claymore
Saundra LaChance
Brendan McClain
Zachary Macaroy
Brenda Mahoney
Kasey Money