Naming Characters

Started out with my internet handle, and then either chose something creatively or borrowed parts of names from good books I've read.

It can take me hours sometimes to come up with a good name.

comic book heros, name of songs, anything that i like
Lady S Shiva----> master of batman
Linda Danvers----> super girl
Living La Vida Loca----> u know the song
Callin All Angel----> Train
Duo Hellscythe H----> Gundam W

I usually make a human name or a device name

mine are kinda random

monk:I Kill For Rice (main)

ranger:I Am Toasty

paragon:II Desmond II <-- yea i hate those kind of names too but i wanted my name in one of them.

necro:Phantom Brave

ele:Archsage Eiriyin <--- the last word i punched my keyboard and it came up

derv:I Kill For Ramen

sin: Assailants Rebirth

and thats all i can remember

I go online looking for names that relate to his/her profession:
Theo [my Dervish] means “god’s gift” or something like that.
Kael [my Warrior] means “great warrior”.

Other times I just give them a random name:
Rin [my Monk]
Chris [my Necromancer]
Kylen [my Elementalist]

For their “last names” it’s always related to their professions.

Theo [Godscythe]
Kael [Darkblade]
Rin [Medicalart]
Chris [Soulburn]

and so on...


For PvP I usually name them something random...

Any sin with X X X Naruto X X X , Kakashi or even better yet Sasgay

All these ppl should die ^^

I like my name for my emo chars

An emo haircut, rangers and wars have the best hair for it XD

I always like the character Scorpion on Mortal Kombat so I just dropped the N and have added prefixs or words after the name.

It used to be whatever sounded good, but then I moved on to skill names.

its been a few months since the last thread of this type, so here goes again.


All of my characters have japanese names, some are not real names they would use (like I dont like they would name there kid winter wind, but you never know), a few of my characters are named after people I knew while I worked in japan and a few are named in a fashion after some anime (not naruto, that is just not my idea of anime).
for example my first character is Mei Ki....Mei is a common girls name, Ki means life.
My monk is Yuki, while a very common boys name (hand plenty of students named that in my junior high classes I taught) also is the word for snow. I have also used the seasons: Haru (spring), and Fuyu (winter) as Haruko is a very popular girls name!.
My first necro has the japanese word for death in her name, while my latest one has their word for poison (which is strange since my first necro uses curses and the last one is the mm, oh well).

My husband uses latin, greek or egyptian words for his characters (except 2 I named which have japanese, well sort of one is more chinese than japanese, names).

Just random latin jokes. Or for pvp random jokes.

All my names have something to do with me or something I like. Too many to name, but I'll give some.

Smile Like Umean It - When I was really getting into the Killers and the song was stuck in my head.

Ice Queen Chase - Cause I like Buffy and pretty much everyone else in the guild had a character named after one of them from the show.

Soul Not a Soldier - The Killers. Again. Though a guild mate actually had it first. Got her to save it for me when she recreated her war.

ll W A Sd G ll - (We are so gonna die) Mantra for all things pug.

The Animal Bautista - I like Batista and was watching Smackdown when I made him.

Mmm Turkey Sammich - Cause I loves me some turkey sammich

My GW character names and appearances are inspired by a roleplay group I've been writing for for years. My list of characters are at the bottom; that's my profile. Chris, Eve, Fala, Laura, Gerra, Halcyon (two of those, actually), Marcus, and Rena are all on my account. Plus a couple fringe characters that are only related.

Ditto for my guildies. Our guild's based on this world.

I think of a name I really like, or a character from an anime/video game I really like, and add a NIN song with the formula "The ____" to the end. I didn't think of the NIN part until I had made half my characters. >_< Before the NIN, I had the names specifically from a text RP from my earlier years of teh internetz. [Chaos, Fiona, and Zeek are from RPs, Rip, Kagura, and Katie have the NIN names]

SiFi related names in fantasy.

Fantasy or Lovecraft names in SiFi.

u will like my name on assassin, -------> Sin of all Sin
look deep ^_^

I like that, lol.

Im a Mechanical Engineer so I have taken alot of calculus and differential equations.

-scoot

I don't have way of naming my PvE chars, it's all random...
For PvP, It's Go + a word relevant to the profession (with some exceptions) :
-Go Burnnnnnnnn = fire ele
-Go Freezeeeeeeeee = water ele
-Go Dieeeeeeeeee = nec
-Go Warrrrrrrr = mesmer XD
-Go Messssssss = monk

I ususally find a gothic or midevil name generator on the net and fit a first and last name together that I like. At least these sound like real names. I really dislike names like: I Pwnd U, Sexylady, and so forth.

I think real sounding names lead to a greater connection between yourself and your character.

I like short, sleek names.
I own:
V E
V R
V Z
T N
P Z
My older character names were from what i was inspired on that day.

i look at something and take the first two letters and make a name out of that