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Trying to come up with a good name for my main character suuuuucks (hexbear.net)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Anything I write with a placeholder name feels bad and then I get stuck trying to think of a better name. I've already designated too much of the start of the alphabet to side characters, it needs to be something easy to read if its coming up over and over again in the book.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Kojima ass names

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hack Blowfist would unironically be a great name for a coke addict muckraker who's convinced he's a sort of genius anti-hero exposing hypocrisy but is mostly just hacking dead kids phones. So Piers Morgan basically.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

unironically sounds like you might want to self-impose some naming constraints. For instance, my parameters for my main cast:

  • same length first and last name (in this case, 6 i-told-you-dog)
  • alliterative
  • each name must have at least 2 different vowel sounds

as such–Cronyl Collin, Gloria Guerra, Romain Romero, Yakira Ykalis.

If it helps, go full Ace Attorney–make the names barely-obscured puns/character traits. On the other hand, remember you can just mash together syllables to make a name, no one's stopping you.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This might actually be helpful, thanks. I'm basing my world off of pre-Christian Ireland so I'm trying to find something vaguely Celtic sounding (even if its not a real word)

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Malcolm Ohio
Gordon Iowa
Logan Utah
Conor Oregon
Angus Maine
Douglas Virginia
Colton Missouri

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Joe/Jill Steele

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I knew someone who's real name was Joe Steele, he kidnapped someone once and now no one talks to him

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Huh. Maybe Joey is better then

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The kind of name you're going for will obviously depend on your genre, but I used the method described here [https://rpubs.com/tarakc02/name-project-1] to build a fake name generator. It occasionally comes up with something really out there, and occasionally comes up with a name that actually exists in real life, but for the most part it gives a lot of good fake names that sound reasonable enough for it to be easy on the reader. I also like behindthename's random name generator [behindthename.com/random/] because you can get interesting, unique names that are still plausible for real people. When neither of these is satisfactory, I look up lists of small towns and borrow one of their names.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Behind the name is great. I've been using it for a sci-fi scenario where the names are always an unusual mix of nationalities, so there are characters called things like: Remi Proudfoot, Hans Abimbola, Wladek Quirke. It involves a lot of re-rolling, and often the names need tweaking to get them to scan, but it's a lot of fun, and so much better than my old technique of googling baby names, place, year

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Heat Bricksmasher

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yado Zygote

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Dick Richards

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

give us the rough outline

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

This has been somewhat instrumental in my writing process in name picking (among other things).

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