What inspired your characters’ names?

[Maps]

He’s smoking’ hot!

I named one of my side characters Svonn after this Georgian guy I taught ESL to. His name was Zviad and I loved saying that first by so I stole it . Gotten love the Euro names.

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[QueenofBabyLoon]

Šarratum means "queen" in the Ancient Akkadian language. The Šarru are a people who live in the Skies in my story, or rather in a land that according to humans would be above their heads and that they cannot penetrate. Šarru means "king" in Akkadian and it is a reference to the Hebrew word "malakh", used to identify angels, and also meaning king. She is the "main" character (main character is a big word).

At some point in life, she will be called Ašratum (a poetic word for "heaven" in Akkadian), lady of the steppes, in reference to the Ugaritic goddess of fertility, wife of Adad, lord of the floods. So, of course, there is a character Adad, in reference to the Ugaritic/Sumerian/Akkadian god of storms and thunder. And his lover, Attar, in reference to the Ugaritic god of war, who replaced Adad as god of gods for a brief period.

There are plenty of other characters. Nemru, leopard. Niqû, human sacrifice. Bašmu, a legendary snake.

I guess that I am inspired by Mesopotamian mythology for both the plot and the names. They had some exciting and pretty horrible things happening between them gods.

A Trail between Skies and Seas | Tapas

[Maps]

I really like the touch with the accent on Kôra as well!

[yvesmarcdorsi]

Cecil starts with a C, and I wanted to get a bit of alliteration going. So thus, Cecil the Circle was born!

WellRounded | Tapas

[Maps]

Holy snap, y’all are getting my Linguistics blood pumpin’!!

[Maps]

Omg. I just snuck a look at your work and RALPH IS SO FREAKIN’ CUTE!

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Naming is my weakest point in my comic....my character Rip Vykirson really started out as a Sonic OC decades ago so I just went with Rip Raptor (because he was fast...and...a dinosaur...inspired right?!)
His current name does have a tiny bit more put into it. The last name is taken because he was adopted by a character named Vykir, so he's Vykirson.

The first name is an allusion to something he will be doing later on in the series:
Ripping down oppressive regimes and corrupt officials from their high places. So I have Rip.
Rip Vykirson.

Dragon Sparking | Tapas

[Maps]

I really like the name Rip, especially for a character with those qualities!
That’s a unique one!

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Thanks! I've had him as a character for a very long time, no other name fits him in my mind.

[AniStaciaArt]

I though Ariana and Adrian were fitting names for the twins because the names are similar sounding and one means light colored and the other dark.
Keira, my bubbly ray of blonde sunshine, has a name that means dark-haired. But I still think her name is great for her.
Reaver is named that because she is a force of nature that will drive everyone around her to madness.

prodigium | Tapas

[Kittosaurus]

Soo many things!!! Here are examples of a few:

1.)Alice (Named after Alice - from Alice in Wonderland) Webster (Like Webster dictionary - since she loves words)

2.)Tirla (Named after Tirla from Pegasus in Flight) Chalka ( Named after Jack L. Chalker - but a bit more feminine with the A at the end)

[gh0stcr33p]

mine aren't really all too deep.

for Erena I originally wanted her name to have the word "red" in it so my first choice was "Ereda". I then did some research and found out that it was the name to a location in a pretty well known game, almost had a crisis and eventually changed it to Erada, and then Erena.

for Xenor I wanted a name that was similar to "Xeno"... so I added an r. lol

and then for bugbot I had "flybot" as my first choice which could have easily been confused with bot fly. I was going to name him so due to the face that he can fly, but I then changed it to bugbot since it was more fitting and matches his buglike-ness

[momojiji]

Short version:
Heathcliff, after emily bronte's Wuthering Heights.
Baelfire, after the bonfires during the celebration of Beltane

Long version:
Brothers Heathcliff and Baelfire are early on foundlings in the story, identified by the society they live in as outsiders with an unknown heritage. Yet i wanted their names to suggest consistency and familial roots that likens to celtic or northern European descent (even in an AU). Both names consist of two parts, each one a visual description that is either natural or earthy.

This is also true of their surname - Blackburn - because they were from a people that identified themselves as children of their parents. For instance, Heathcliff, son of Blackburn - but overtime shortened to Heathcliff Blackburn to fit in with the society they coexist with.

[IndigoShirtProd]

Random name generators and anything that rolls of the tongue well. And puns if I can.
For the main characters of my comic(https://tapas.io/series/The-Black-Belt-Society-) I picked the names at random: Elliot, Tyler, and Lara. The goddesses' names were a little more involved.
Each goddess represents a different element: water, fire, earth, and air.
Water-Otar (Otar kind of sounds like water, granted I pronounce it like Oh-tar as opposed to Ah-ter)
Fire-Ire (Ire is fire without the F)
Earth-Urt (Urt sounds like earth without the -th sound)
Air-Ira (I just moved the i in air to the end)
I have a planned character in this comic whose name is a pun and another character whose name is supposed to be a hint for things to come.
I think it's cool to have character with a deeper meaning to their name, but names with no inherent meaning work well too.

[mariusthered]

i have a few ways of making up names for characters when writing stories.

i have a book of baby names
i sometimes use mixed names from graves stones (creepy i know)
reading movie credits and mixing up names is another way.

[Maps]

Hey the gravestone method probably gets some good older names that had lost their popularity!!

[mariusthered]

yes and i like to think of it as a way of keeping people alive in a creepy way but i can be odd that way. i used this for a vampire once.

[ccrrally]

I do a combination of things. Sometimes I just have a name I really like or combine names. Sometimes I have a color for a character and look at paint color names of similar colors to get the name. But one of my more common methods is I end up typing randomly. It's usually gibberish, but on rare occasions something good comes out that I'm willing to use like Lukansoll.

[Jenna_A]

My characters are all based on people I know in real life for the most part. I've either kept their name (after asking for permission of course) or changed it slightly. For the characters I've made up, I used common names used in the Las Vegas area (My story is based in Vegas) I also have a couple of characters named after "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" characters- just because I'm a nerd.