How did you choose your name?

I used a generator because I wanted to be lore-correct and straight up panic-slapped on a last name off the top of my head and I have to admit it flows quite nicely.

First name is from a character I made for a manga project based in the setting from the index/railgun series. Last name I was super lazy and used my actual family name. My alts follow a similar suit taking first names from other characters I made for other stories.

I love flowers, so Kiku works as a given, and I chose to honor one of my fav Japanese singers for the surname. 私は川田菊です

Before I played this, I played both FFXI and WoW. When I came over to FFXIV, I brought friends from both XI and WoW with me. My FFXI friends knew me as Spiriel and my WoW friends knew me as Basanda, and since we all migrated together at almost the same time and I liked the names anyways, I just put both names together so they would all know me. It's kinda funny in a way. You can tell who came from which MMO by what they call me.

Where did the Spiriel and Basanda names come from, well I'm not super creative so I just found some of the most cult games I knew about and pulled names out of them. Only one person has recognized the names so far, heh. Maybe more have and just didn't bother saying anything, but only one has said anything.

My name, Adramelia Mercedes, comes from both Final Fantasy XII and MapleStory.

Adramelia is inspied from Adrammelech of the zodiac sign of the Capricorn (my favorite Esper in FF12), also my zodiac sign. Adramelia is a "feminised" version of the name.

Mercedes used to be my main class in Maple Story (now it's Wind Archer).

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In most of the MMOs I've played you could only pick one name, so I usually used Tressym. A tressym is a winged cat from D&D Forgeotten Realms but I really just picked the name because it was unique. But when I started FFXIV I couldn't think of a good last name to go with it so I went with the name I used for my alts in those other games, Acesfool, which is a play on poker slang for a full house. And of course it was easy to split into a first and last name.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

I saw where you found the info for these names and no worries what you have is fine, but there is something I wanna bring to your attention in case it was unknown. While the kanji you would use for the name "Haru" 陽 does mean "light" and this kanji combined with thick/fat (太) makes the word for sun (taiyou/太陽), the light part is actually yang, as in yin and yang. The name actually means light as in positive/uplifting.

As for the last name, as you said it's literally wind and song combined. Not bad but it does hit the same as it might in English. You could always change it to Fuuta, since it means the same thing, in a way. Honestly Windsong sounds a bit better to me, sorry... forgive me. T.T

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Thanks for that - I did realise there's a chance it's inaccurately translated (especially with so many meanings to cover briefly) but I liked the general 'zone' of the various meanings. And "positive/uplifting" definitely works for him too!

And yeah, I'm in two mind about translating the surname or not... If we didn't have to pay for name-changes, I'd switch it over and see if I like it better.

I have a few characters so:

Tlachtga Ereshkigal: Tlachtga was a NPC from Etrian Odyssey. I just took Ereshkigal from Mesopotamian mythology.

Kirsche Scheherazade: Kirsche was a minor NPC in Atelier Firis. Scheherazade I took from the Arabian Nights.

Kupala Iwaoropenelep: Kupala was a NPC in Etrian Odyssey 1. Iwaoropenelep was a boss she summoned in EO1, and a recurring boss in the series.

Raquna Arken: Raquna Sheldon was a party member in the Story Mode of the EO1 remake, Etrian Odyssey Untold. Arken was a NPC in Etrian Odyssey 5.

Caoimhe Diva: These rhyme lul

Kit-kat Chunky: Future Hrothgar.

Vichys Soise: Named after Vichyssoise. Wanted a food name for my NA lala that involved potatoes in some capacity while being somewhat original.

Had a dog named Gizmo, love Gremlins. Changed the name a bit to make it sound more Lalafel style

I've used this name for something like 20 years. I can't remember why I created it, but I wasn't aware of the song by the same name at the time, I just made it up separately.

Viertes Oscurita is short for Vierte Sohn dell'Oscurita, though if I went all German it would've been Viertes Dunkelheit instead. It means "Fourth son of Darkness"
The name is inspired by Kenshiro and a Kingdom Hearts track called Forze dell'Oscurità. (Xehanort's Keyblade Armor boss theme in BBS)

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Originally Posted by Xau

me name... errrm was made by mixing random words and hope i sounded well(in me head)

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I think it sounds good :) Unless I'm pronouncing it wrong...:o

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Originally Posted by Gihwezi

I used a generator because I wanted to be lore-correct and straight up panic-slapped on a last name off the top of my head and I have to admit it flows quite nicely.

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I think so too. They sound good together :)

Sometimes some names just click I think and you don't have to think about it any more than that. I have a friend who can just come up with awesome names in seconds and feel a little jealous of him sometimes, usually when I'm having trouble coming up with a name :p

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Originally Posted by Sudenmarja

I really like the evolution of your name. :)

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Thanks! :D

My main's name just follows me around now, but originated from my WoW RP writing main (not a fan of in-game RP), who himself didn't exist in the game until Legion.

How I happened upon the name was simple. I was writing up an RP concept for collaborative RP, and I created a character just for it. I knew I wanted the last name to be Stormchaser, but I was stumped on the first name. As I was working on the details, I was watching the Saint Seiya: Legend of the Crimson Youth (which I have seen many a time). One of the antagonists showed up, and introduced himself: Lynx Jaou (or Jaō). I thought about then name and essentially went: "cool, yep, new name. (b'-')b" It only made the whole name passably lore-appropriate for a Night Elf, so as you can see it's not at all lore-appropriate for a Keeper of the Moon, and still not lore-appropriate for a Xaela. Actually, it's not really lore-appropriate for anything in this game. >_>

Still, it was a nice sounding name, and obscure enough that most people wouldn't know where it came from. Now it just stuck, and I bring it to whatever game I play.

I take inspiration from various mythologies when I create characters for a fantasy setting, and I hadn't used Irish/Scottish/Gaelic in a long time. I checked a name dictionary ("bright-minded" "storm") and an index on mythology, choosing names for my retainers and chocobo that fit (e.g., my chocobo is snow white and named Lugh). I chose my jobs the same way (paladin, dragoon, and white mage are among my mains).

It's usually for those who stop to smell the roses to pick up on my play at words.

Lily Larkspur is arrayed in flowers, but her name can go deeper for those familiar with botany. (SAM/CNJ/DRG)
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Angelov Mercy is self explanatory, but can go deeper in meaning for more serious gamers. (WHM/NIN/MCH)
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Originally Posted by Eloah

As for the last name, as you said it's literally wind and song combined. Not bad but it does hit the same as it might in English. You could always change it to Fuuta, since it means the same thing, in a way. Honestly Windsong sounds a bit better to me, sorry... forgive me. T.T

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Uhm, shouldn't you read "風歌" as "Fūka". The only on-reading of "歌" i know and have learned is "ka". I could be wrong though, as Japan being Japan, most Chinese character has multiple on- and kun-readings, especially with names. I've heard people sometimes need to ask how to read their name when they recieve a business card.

As for me, I wanted to use "無限" somehow, meaning infinite/eternity. When I made my character, I always knew I will never change races. Once a lala, always a lala i guess. But instead of romanizing (is that a word? :p) it in Japanese, I went with Korean so Muhan. Nam is a Korean surname that fits Muhan the most imo. Not sure if Koreans use Muhan as their first name though XD

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Originally Posted by Noitems

I played Tales of Vesperia (back when it had first come out on 360) and got through the EX dungeon to unlock the cameo bosses from other games in the arena. One of them named Barbatos uses an mystic arte (like a limit break for Tales of) called "No Items Ever!" where he actively beats the hell out of a character that is using items. It could be a healing item, or just an item to analyze his stats, he will pound them into the ground and then send them flying with his axe.

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Blah blah blah Tidel Wave spam is too strong in the arena hahah XD

I've posted here my femroe's name stuff, but figured I'd add elegent's as well:

Etoileaux Charbonnier

Etoile is french and means star. I got it from my real life pet rabbit whose eyes twinkle like little stars. "Star-eye-aux" would've been too long, so I shortened it to just "Star-aux". Charbonnier is, surprise-surprise, also french and means Coalminer. I came up with it when I gave my duskwight the darkest grey skintone, which made me think of sooth.

Later I made up a story to go along with the surname (moniker, really) that his Redbelly mom sold him to a Coerthan mine, because she couldn't provide for her other three children after her husband and eldest son were captured by Wood Wailers, and Etoileaux happened to be her least favourite child.

My name was kind of a combination of the in-game season of the year, Astral (sort of like Summer and June/Julia* are names we use irl), and Thalia was meant to be a variation of the patron Thaliak, one of The Twelve.

Later, some people have thought it was because of the Astrologian job, even though I made and named my character long before it was announced. Other times people have commented about a card named Thalia from Magic the Gathering, but honestly I didn't know about that card before they mentioned it (I play a bit of casual mtg sometimes with friends now after that).

* Would be Juli (month) -> Julie (name) in Norwegian, my native tongue (I've only met a handful of Scandinavians in-game)

W'Kohrahx Tia

I love an old Dos game called Hexen. The main antagonist is a demon named Korax. He was always asking people if they were ready to die.

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In the mid-2000s I played a game called Runescape, a game that was mostly played by teenagers with names like "Ipwnj00noob", "Psykogodkilla", "l33t badaz", "Ipwnurmom", etc. I figured with a name like Joe Schmoe there's no way I'd be mistaken for a 12 year old, and the name stuck for all these years.

Base on Sword Art Online and I role the dice till I got a decent “family name”.
On my alt is because how ppl was saying my name wrong and my “family name” is how they decided to call me.

Show my age...

Way way back I was trying to register to play a Telnet RPG... Before I could actually play I had to send in a detailed bio of my character. The game was more on the RP side, there was a full list of player characters available and I guess in the interest of variety they were giving bonus allocation points for starting your name with less common letter characters and for playing less common races (it was sci-fi RPG). Based on that I chose a less common race whose naming convention was that their names were incredibly long and mostly looked like gibberish, and thus were somehow condensed (either as some kind of acronym or a set of the beginning letters in the name) when being addressed by other species. I chose to begin my name with 'R' because that was one of the less common letters to begin a name with.

iirc, my species were telepathic jellyfish things who usually had mind-based abilities (mind-control, mind-wipe, etc.) and generally looked down on other species. I don't remember the full name tbh... Rowdethiclurminoxdecart... it went on... but I know I intentionally shortened it to 'Rowde' because my idea was that the name would be pronounced like 'loud' only with 'r' in front. However, that dangling 'e' on the end would most likely cause ppl to mispronounce it as 'rowdy' so then I would have to correct them... basic lifeforms that they are... it brings me no joy in having to constantly redress them.

At any rate, as part of the bio I had to write like... my character's immediate intention or something... and as the game was in progress, I had to catch up on the established lore and such. Apparently I misread something though, as my character sheet was rejected and the GM pointed out the reason why (iirc I was thinking I was secretly an assassin on a covert mission in the Federation based on some war I had read about... but apparently that war had already been resolved and the faction I was supposed to be from had been dissolved...) and although they did offer me some suggestions about how to tweak the character... it had already taken me a crap ton of time to roll that one and I was like... already "married" to the idea I had created so... ehhhhhh... never actually played the game.

I kept the name though. Went through a couple transitions here and there. When I played OG PSO on Dreamcast 'Rowde' was Purplenum iirc... but I wasn't a big fan of spears (Characters' names determined their ID tags, which in turn affected their common loot drops) and by dropping the 'e' my ID tag changed to Bluefull for swords. So I was 'Rowd' in that game... until one of my friends thought I got the name from a jobber character in Suikoden II... and I wasn't having any of that so that silent 'e' got reattached ever since. Sometimes when we play medieval or high-fantasy games I insist that the name is pronounced 'row-day' instead because I'm wearing my fancy pants... Ser Rowde of House Rowde...

FFXIV was the first online game I played where I could put in a separate surname, and I felt like Rowde was better suited for that. So it could be a 'family' name for alts if I wanted.

My nuts......wish I was kidding

Split version of my WoW character's name, Fugubar.

Sevro is my favorite character from a book series. Red Rising Trilogy if anyone is interested.

Celi Roronoa

People will probably think this is weird and cringy (since most probably don't care for shipping) but the name "Celi" is the name of a made up child of Zoro and Sanji from One Piece that I thought of. And "Roronoa", the last name of Zoro. Not the most creative, but who cares, right? As long it is a name I love and I have loved this name since I created him (he was created at a time I was really into Zoro and Sanji, still love Sanji tho). And if I ever did change his name, I would only change his last name. I am way attached to the name Celi.

Following the official naming conventions for every single of my characters, I chose names that I liked and found fitting for each of them.

I guess since other people have mentioned their alts as well, maybe I should join the boat though I'll try to keep the alts far more condensed than my main character. :p

Lorelei Kaioh - Female Xaela

This one was a spinoff from another main character that I would role-play a lot as in the same campaign that Soma came from whom gave birth towards my main character's name in XIV. Though, I call the XIV Soma the "discount version" because they are nothing alike at all. The original Lorelei Kaioh was an ill-tempered, grouchy, cold, and aggressive woman. She was mostly a b*tch, but still loved by many people as a lot of them found her cynical and sadistic nature funny sometimes, even funnier when she tried to have "better" intentions. She was also Neptunian royalty from the setting that she came from and plays heavily with the lore from that setting.

Lorelei is German for "alluring, temptress" and Kaioh is Japanese for "Sea King". So, her name roughly translates into "Alluring Sea King" which is great because she's also a siren. She's a blue-toned Xaela and I felt that fit the most in order to represent her ties with the sea.

Aurica Vexus - Female Midlander

This one was a bit of a crossover between two different games at the time and I just wanted to play around with the character creator and make a Hyur. I love the Ar Tonelico series (except for 3, that one can pretend to never exist) and one of main female protagonist from the first game is called Aurica Nestmile. Ever since a college friend introduced me towards the first game, I've always loved Aurica's name and design. As for the surname, I was sitting in the room while a friend was playing Birth By Sleep and I heard the names "Vexen" and "Ventus". So, I threw both names into a variable melting pot and Vexus is what popped out. The whole name rolled off the tongue easily, so I thought it fit well.

Astra Lunae - Female Xaela (Excalibur Only)

At the time of this alt, a bunch of old friends begged me to play on their server and datacenter. However, i didn't want to uproot my main character from Sarg and leave my static and friends. So, I made another alt. During the creation of this one, I was also enthralled into playing XV and that game uses a lot of Latin based naming conventions. "Astra" is Greek for "star" and Latin for "of the stars" while "Lunae" is Latin for "day of the moon". So, her name means "Day of the Moon & Stars". She too, is also a blue-themed Xaela like Lorelei.

My in-game character's name is Ryoto Kurama. Considering he's a Miqo'te, I wanted a tie-in to a famous anime catboi... and my favorite is Yoko Kurama... while technically not a "cat" neither is Ryoto... he's a fox demon, but is just confused for a Miqo'te. ;)

Every one of my characters has a different reason... so I'll share all 4.

Main character, Laura Adalena. Originally not a lalafell, I chose Laura because it was a name I liked. And Adalena is a type of flower that sounded cool.

Xell Adalena. Xell is a username I go by elsewhere, and inspired by Zell Dincht from FF8 because I'm as much a loud, obnoxious, chicken-wuss as him.

Carby Mc'Buncle. Carbuncles.

Oh'no I'. I saw a speedrun of Pokemon that named the character "Oh'no I'" and I thought it was hilarious watching the dialogue of it.

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Celi Roronoa

People will probably think this is weird and cringy (since most probably don't care for shipping) but the name "Celi" is the name of a made up child of Zoro and Sanji from One Piece that I thought of. And "Roronoa", the last name of Zoro. Not the most creative, but who cares, right? As long it is a name I love and I have loved this name since I created him (he was created at a time I was really into Zoro and Sanji, still love Sanji tho). And if I ever did change his name, I would only change his last name. I am way attached to the name Celi.

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I agree completely :) Names can (and are, in my opinion) be important so they should be something you like and feel comfortable using no matter what other people think.

I first look at the random name generator to get an idea of that the common names are for the race/clan, then I try to "adapt" to it the name I'm used to have everywhere.

Sygglona Ahldfarrwyn

Just took a look at the roeg dictionary. Victory Gatherer, Daughter of Old Bull.

I researched lalafell naming conventions but nothing I came up with fit my character. So, I used random names then adapted one of them to something I liked.

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Oh and my forum name:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xhfCGcAYw

Name of a character of mine in a story that maybe one day I'll scrape up the courage to get published. Though after creating the character and hearing people mistakenly pronounce the name, I may want to change it...since I actually made and named her before 'meme' became common knowledge as a concept. It's supposed to be 'ah-may-may' XD

Ekhi is a Basque Goddess of the Sun. She the protector of humanity and was a Warrior of Light.

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Originally Posted by MuHan

Uhm, shouldn't you read "風歌" as "Fūka". The only on-reading of "歌" i know and have learned is "ka". I could be wrong though, as Japan being Japan, most Chinese character has multiple on- and kun-readings, especially with names. I've heard people sometimes need to ask how to read their name when they recieve a business card.

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You aren't incorrect with 風歌 also being able to be pronounced Fūka, but in her case it were the literal words for wind(kaze) and song(uta). The main reason I suggested Fu/u over Kaze is because Fuu can mean air, which to most English speakers is synonymous with wind; that and most people know of Typhoon/Taifuu, so Fuu wouldn't be a far stretch. Kanji aren't as easy as one meaning and one reading, and some word combinations that we'd use in other languages, would require the の/no particle; I believe wind song would be one of these words 風の歌. But it can be confusing at times, 青空 and 青の空 both mean blue sky, but they are different some how. I guess it's similar to saying it's my PC vs a PC. Words are hard, lol

Stole it from 2hu