Character Naming Ideas

One of my sources for contemporary character names has been--for a long time--Google Groups (Deja news way back when).  I'd search the groups with some crazy topic and look for good combinations of names among the people posting messages (always combining different first names and last names).

Try this: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=cryptographic+virus

How does Korinne Radatti sound?  Pretty good for Googling.

Then I found a link to a cool random name generator at Trudy W. Schuett's Blog.  I'm impressed with some of the names gen'd.  How about this list:

1.   Erik Draughn
2.   Jessie Leishman
3.   Javier Portner
4.   Fernando Denniston
5.   Clayton Dahmen

Not bad.  Not bad at all.

Some insights on character naming from Wen Spencer's blog

If you're writing an ancient Greek historical here's a great source for ancient Greek character names:

Information about naming:
http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/names/formation.html
http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/names/practices.html

PDF files full of names (see the 4 links at the bottom of the page):
http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/online/downloads/index.html

Comments

[Philipp Lenssen]

You'll enjoy my random ego-googler... not only does it generate a random name, it also checks Google for the first web page for this name:
http://blog.outer-court.com/randomego/