Names, Where Do They Come From?

[tearsofthemuse]

I just use nwn char creation screen, Generatename... generate name...generate name ooooo that looks good, not to find a good matching last name... generate name... O:-)

[MJZ]

Well, Caelte is a transliteration of "Caoilte," who was a warrior in Finn's band, in Irish pagan mythology. The last name Amargein is a junction of words meaning "song" and "birth."

[Faldred]

Forum Name: Faldred -- just a name I've used for years, typically for Elvish characters (one day I will make and submit an Elven character, likely a Bard, with the name Faldred E'Tai

Character Names: Zug -- actually started out in my mind as Rug (pronounced "roog" -- that's supposed to have a carat over the u, but I'm not sure how to do that on the boards), but I was afraid that people would pronounce it like "rug", i.e., the thing on the floor.  Variations like "Rhug" and "Ruug" were discared for the same reasons.  "Z" was just a random substitute, and I left it as an "ugh" sound.

Aeoleth Ellyn -- made up name from one of my NWN single-player characters, a rogue/wizard/AA

Ruh Zraht-hatubnot -- Orcish, roughly translated as "adopted child of the wolf"

[LynnJuniper]

Hmm , Sounds fun.

Lynn Juniper -- Middle name, Street name

Kailyn Eleishion -- First character, taken from the greek/latin choir songs we always did. basically: Kyrie Eleison (lord have mercy)Well, and Kailyn was the name of my first boyfriend.

Rhynn Saebhel -- Rhynn - Lynn -L +Rh. (I like Rs) Saebhel:
Well, I was in school making the name, so it came out as
*scribbled on a piece of paper* Shay...Say...Sae..Sae..Sae...*bell rings for next class* Saebel. And, because I shove Hs into places they don't belong, and wanted to eventually allude to the fact that this guy made Rhynn's life a living hell,  it became Saebhel.

The rest just were made up randomly.

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

Stephen Zuckerman is my name. Ayup. That simple. I got tired of going by usernames that doubled as character names, etc. etc... So, I started using something much more separate from any of my characters.

And yes, I'm checking LORE to find all of my characters. XD

Pyyran Rahth: Well, I started off with Perrin, the name of a character from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and... Well, this way WAY back when I started playing PnP. I had used the name Perrin for lots of my characters before, and decided I didn't want to just blatantly rip the name. So I altered it, and, loving odd consonant/vowels, and doubled letters, it became Pyyran. Rahth I liked because it sounded neat, and had an unnecessary h in there.

Cynn Reyer: I started making noises, and this popped out.

Tyeaan: This is actually the in-game Elvish for Poet.

Lora Fearshield: Lora was from making noises, and spelling it funny, as I like to do. Fearshield I thought sounded nice and strong.

Bjosef Bourne: Another of those fun noises and love of unnecessary consonants.

Barret Glib: I started thinking about Ballistae, which became Barrister, which I found out means lawyer. So I shortened it to Barret. Glib just because he's a bloody sneak. Or was.

Ceviren Lightstaff: I'm not actually sure what Ceviren means in in-game elvish any more. I think Light? Glow? Something. Lightstaff... It was an Aeridinite thing.

Grok: GROK SMASH!!!

Merry Lark: Originally, the character's name was Robyn Derakin, whose sister I played on Narc's 3.5 server... Her name was Lark Derakin. Merideth is a name I saw elsewhere and liked (perhaps from Laurell K. Hamilton's fey series), and Lark seemed fitting.

Lin Xu: It sounds kinda oriental. It might mean something naughty, but I wouldn't know. I don't speak anything not rooted in Latin or Germanic.

Joshua Byrne: I like names with Js. I also like ys, and unnecessary letters. Thus was born Joshua Byrne.

[LordCove]

*shrugs and starts writing*

Sallaron Tempest - The anti-hero of dozens of short...long....and unfinished stories I've wrote from wee little toddler till now. Although not exactly RP'd how I wrote him, it's bloody close enough.

Gak - Klingon kind of wormy food

Sara Sezane - Totally made up....but sounds kinda cool I think. Plus....as a bonus....she's cute

[darkstorme]

darkstorme - it sounded cool when I was in Grade six.  What?

Kell Ereptor - I was re-reading the Wraith Squadron series of books, so the first name was probably lifted from that, and "Ereptor" means thief.  (I'm not creative, so sue me.)

Therise Silverstar - Therise rhymes neatly with things, and, when combined with Silverstar, had the right number of syllables.  (Yes, I basically wrote her for her ballad.)

[ShiffDrgnhrt]

Shiff Dragonheart:  
[INDENT]Shiff Is actually my real name (first middle last etc) chopped up and mixed together based on some Old "Make your own Jedi name" I found in a Lego Magazine. Dragonheart... Got that from the Movie... Gotten Love Draco and Bowen.[/INDENT]  Latherian Leefwalker:
[INDENT]  Latherian was me trying to make a cool sounding name that MIGHT have been common in The Lord of the Rings. I basically took Lothlorein and kept saying it in different ways until Latherian Came out. Leefwalker... Well it was LEAFwalker, made sense for a Elf Ranger...
[/INDENT]  Yukimura Hyoujin:
[INDENT]  Yukimura is the name of a legendary Japanese Samurai (because there are other kinds  :p). Hyoujin means "Glistening Sword" in Japanese. I thought that was cool, so I put them together.  
[/INDENT]

[Desicardo]

Desicardo: Printed on the shield of Ivanhoe said to mean "disinherited one"

Armolas: Play off Legolas

Tadashi: Name of an old friend from my SCA days who was actually very much like Tadashi in game.

Hanibal: name of a mage I played in college for D&D and Fantasy Trip campaigns.  Nothing to do with Hanibal Lechter from the books.  Lots of attitude and penashe so I brought him back to life here.

[Zelda1]

Larissa: My best friend in kindergarten. She always acts halflingish.

Ash Willo: I watched a movie called Dream's Ashes when I was creating her. Willo cause I wanted her to be foresty. No 'w' cause I needed some oddity with her.

Oh, and Zelda: Speaks for itself. A kick but girl with blonde hair that isnt sleazy at the same time.

[Serissa]

Serissa is the name of a small tropical tree used for bonsai.  It has tiny white flowers, stinks when you cut it, and dies if you look at it cross-eyed. Seemed appropriate for me.

Ferrit is because I have a ferret named Penny who rules the house.

Sala was just a short easy sound byte.

[Black Cat]

Xandrian - he's the son of XANa and aDRIAN
Allean D'oremm- same thing but ALLia and AshEAN, D'oremm is an anagram of another name *grins*
Grohin -  name is an adaptation of a dwarven name of Tolkien stories... written Gròin (if I remember correctly)

[Kindo]

Kindo - It is a shortened form of Kindoffer, which basically is a made-up word meaning 'cheek-victim'. The current form, in turn, means 'cheek-o', I suppose. It stems back many a-years, when I was in sixth or seventh grade. I had big cheeks, okay?! In any case, I use it everywhere on the Internet.
 

[tubasolo]

tubasolo was a word a friend and I put at the bottoms of our letters. Just for whatever heh.

Sammas Gondo comes from "Samas" my very first D&D character back in 1975, he was a fighter as well. Gondo comes from "Gondol", a name I used for my favorite Middle Earth Role Play scout. Gondol means rock head in sindarin.

[Nyralotep]

My forum name is a misspelling of Nyralathotep for two reasons, one being that on most boards the name was taken already and two I have always liked HP Lovecraft's books.

My character names have no real significance since I made most of them up with a random name generator.  

But Zup is the funniest one I came up with that way and I try and make him live up to it.