Promote your story with the inspiration behind your most unique character name (or names)

craftsbyblue 2024-01-13 21:32:42 UTC #10

A number of characters in my story have Chinese / Japanese names. The names range from uncommon to "no one would use this in real life."

Here are a few examples:

Zhen Xinyi (真心意, multiple meanings, could be read as "sincere")
Baiqiao Sheng Feng (白桥圣凤 / 白橋聖鳳, "sacred phoenix of the white bridge")
Baiqiao Yaoshe (白桥妖蛇 / 白橋妖蛇, “demonic snake of the white bridge”)
Shilu (失路, “someone who has lost their way”)

Kurosawa Makoto (黒澤誠, "sincere black marsh")
Kurosawa Gyoku (黒澤玉, "jade black marsh")

UntiteldMaidens 2024-01-13 21:36:48 UTC #11

American Maiden is... Made-in America( that names taken I guess rho)

Got a girl named Invisabelle. Isabelle+invisible
Got a character called Revengence. Vengeance + revenge
Got a character called Gibberish that changes everyone's speech bubbles into Blahblahblah

2DLenzy 2024-01-13 22:33:35 UTC #12

Alec Tryon is stolen from Alectryon, a figure in Greek myth
Horace comes from Horus, the falcon-headed Egyptian god, and his last name, Apis, from Serapis, another Hellenistic god
Teresa came from Mother Teresa.

Lots of chickens were derived from puns, breeds, foreign words
Friar = fryer
Bucky = Buckeye
Gallus = Gallus domesticus
Schmultz = schmaltz, a broth used in Jewish cooking

My newest three - Baltzar, Melchor and Gasper are derived from the three wise men/kings who visited infant Jesus.

Lots more to come!

lexhera 2024-01-13 22:52:15 UTC #13

I enjoy bastardizing rather common names. I just pretend it's the culture of my novel's setting, haha

Ellowyn Vestein
Florencia Vestein
Ikras Alciel
Empress Tersica
(Future Characters) Evelissa, Cloetta, Charliette, Victorren, etc...

Leyelle 2024-01-14 12:35:22 UTC #14

wow, Nyambura is a really interesting name

Leyelle 2024-01-31 02:57:35 UTC #15

Okay, so in book two, (technically in book one as well, but she doesn't get any dialog until book 2) there is a character named Melissa Xochitl. Her name is Mexican, but interestingly, I first learned that name because it was the name of a brand of blue corn chips. They were so tasty...and the character is a really fun, chipper, non-toxic person (because we really really needed some of those) so she earned that (earned being christened after blue corn chips lol)

lignorice 2024-01-31 07:44:11 UTC #16

Internet is definitely my friend for names! Names of my characters are either made up or browsed in internet. I tend to choose uncommon names, or ancient forms.

Cenric is taken from Old English "Cene" means bold and Ric means "King". It's an Anglo-Saxon name (according to ny browsing)

Atreus is taken from Greek, the word "Treo" means to fear/flee added with suffix "a" (so it means not coward/run away)

Nicola is a variation of Nicholas, taken from Greek "nike" means victory and "laos" means people.

Aaaand future characters:

Erhard is from Old German, "era" means "honour, respect" combined with "hart" means "hard, firm, brave, hardy"

Ilze is Latvian variation, short form of Elizabete (Elizabeth). I chose this name because it sounds like what her parents would name her

Itri means star in Tamazight (I don't know what language is this, but I chose this name with the same reason as Ilze, and how it means star).

Vrakh is a name I came up with during concepting Lume more than 7 years ago, when I am in high school. Sounds ancient is the only reason lol

Leyelle 2024-02-23 15:52:22 UTC #17

So i have a really interesting story behind one of the names waiting to come out later, but I'll wait for the character's reveal.

For now: Jimin Lee, Jinwoo's little sister, is named after Park Jimin (Singer of "April Fools" not the one from BTS)

PoppyTheMerpasaur 2024-02-23 16:25:15 UTC #18

"C-3" is a complex one. I wanted something that sounded labrat-y, and so you can see why I went with a letter-dash-number format. I made sure the letter and the number rhymed to make it roll off the tongue like an actual name, but it means something deeper than that. The C and the 3 come together to form a little heart, which is meant to represent the character's endless compassion, and the C alone is meant to represent half of a circle... although saying what that represents starts to get into spoiler territory-

"Dolus" is just latin for something. A lot of the weird names are. Is it lazy? Lol yeah
But I bet you didn't know that until I said something <u<

Animal508 2024-02-23 16:31:15 UTC #19

Every Japanese name I use in my story is symbolic in some way, either of a physical trait, or of an emotional one.

Leyelle 2024-03-15 02:47:22 UTC #20

The female lead of my series "Hushabye Prince" goes by her middle name Kimberly, but her technical first name is Motarilavoa. She's Vanuatu and African American, so her mother named her after a Vanuatu chief-tess because she wanted her to stay connected with her culture. (Her mother's name is Isabel, because it was changed when she got American citizenship)

Leyelle 2024-03-15 16:52:58 UTC #21

She's finally made her debut!

TheBlacKat333 2024-03-15 22:41:59 UTC #22

For kid, I was both too indecisive to pick just one name, and also thinking of some spelling of Kawan.
Hugo, I remembered this book I used to read as a kid, called “The invention of Hugo Cabret” and, it was either that, Atticus or Adam. I latched more onto the current name lol.
A character that hasn’t appeared yet, is Romeo. I picked his name cause his “brother” is inspired by the song Ooedo Julia night. And Julia is practically Juliet, so I decided to be a little funny with that.

Leyelle 2024-03-15 22:46:48 UTC #23

i've never heard of that song, who is it by?

TheBlacKat333 2024-03-15 22:49:08 UTC #24

It’s a vocaloid song by MitchieM. It’s a very energetic 90s style techno song. I HEAVILY recommend it, it’s one of my favorite songs

Leyelle 2024-04-04 03:35:14 UTC #25

Oh, the character hasn't appeared yet, but I have an Auntie who is Ghanaian who's been like a mother to me. I asked her how mother is said in Twi, and she told me it's "Mae" hence the name of my Ghanaian teacher in "Hushabye Prince" Fatou Mae.

perezathena312 2024-04-04 13:21:41 UTC #26

I admit all of my OCs names are basic in Uncle Howard and Paul (it is set in the modern day in a supposed Filipino-inspired city), so I guess the most unique name is Brad, since you really don't see Brad being used as a girl's name.

Brad's name is actually a nickname. We Filipinos, especially men, like to call one another brad or bro or brother or any iterations of that. In Brad's case, she grew up with brothers who call her that, especially when she was diving into more masculine mannerisms and hobbies. (She is a butch lesbian who loves basketball and collecting shiny rocks, can you blame her?) Anyways, she love the nickname so much that she insisted to be called Brad by everyone. Her real name? It's Monica.

Leyelle 2024-04-04 15:02:46 UTC #27

Most of the names in Damsel in the Red Dress are pretty basic too, they are just named normal names because the world is fairly normal, with the exception of a few very specific people who's names are more unique, like Kattar, which as far as I knew was not a real first name (it is 711 people have the name) and Shannon Carmichael, who's name stands out because it made the MC assume he was a woman before she met him.

Vikthetoonaddict 2024-04-07 20:47:37 UTC #28

Okay, so one of the two main characters in Clyborne-Chatterjee is named Tasarinan (called Rin for short)-His is actually a geographic region in Lord of the Rings. His name was actually suggested by my brother, as one of Rin's dads ran a bookstore and was a major book nerd. Giving the kid a name from LOTR kinda fits him anyway.

turbojunior18 2024-04-07 21:08:52 UTC #29

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