What's the story behind your name?

I like the YouTuber call me Kevin like a lot

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Originally Posted by Jus71n

I like the YouTuber call me Kevin like a lot

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I feel fear.

I wasn't really creative with my name when I decided to go with "Ark" and "Flxn" I was around 13 years old when I created my name. One night I brainstorm and mix something with the letter F for my last name. Though I'm unsure if Flxn has any meaning behind it. But after playing multiple MMO games it just stuck so people just casually call me Ark or Flxn sometimes. :p

I resented being forced to have both a first and last name, so I mashed letters together until I had something that worked with six characters.

My viera's name I just wanted to make close to FFXII viera names, to have minimal vocals and use the Nordic J. I tested out what letters worked together and sounded pretty until settling with Fjrwn. Ymir I chose as her village, because of its Norse mythology roots.

My original roegadyn's name from ARR-ShB was Haprilona Sunnwyn which meant Gatherer of happiness, daughter of Sunn. It was taken from my Lord of the Rings Online's hobbit character Haprimac, whose name in turn was inspired by Meriadoc, as I wanted to be called Happy, like Meriadoc was Merry.

And my roleplay character is Étoileaux 'Charbonnier' de Veilleuse. Little star 'Coalminer' of Nightlight. His name I got from my pet bunny who was at the time staring at me with his twinkling little star eyes while I was trying to think of a name. Charbonnier I chose as his ingame surname initially because I gave him black skin+hair+eyes and he looked like he had been rolling in soot all day long. Later I made up a lore reason that he was a sold to a Coerthan coal mine and once he managed to escape from there and was recruited to Ishgardian military, the squires called him 'Coalminer' or 'Sootface'.

1. Hellsguard have the best naming conventions.
2. Mashed the random name button several times, every decent name was taken.
3. Took the last name of one of the generated names and chose a monosyllabic homonym for the first name.

Now I have a name that's short, memorable, and adheres to the established naming convention.

Originally in 1.0 my character's name was Kitara Kitty, but after the calamity my character changed to Hyacinth Feng along with her hair color. I chalk this up to Dissociative Identity Disorder. Hyacinth was actually a mule from my old FFXI days. It was an uncommon name so it was easy to pick.

My first name, Tattersail, is a character in The Malazan Book of the Fallen, an epic fantasy book series by Steven Erikson.
She is the head of a company of mages in a huge militaristic empire, kinda lusty, funny, and although she dies in the first book, in true fantasy trope, isn't really dead.

As for my last name, Nightwish, Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from (mostly) Finland. My favorite band over the past seven or eight years or so.

Lore appropriate Miqote Moonkeeper name.

I was a cat at the time....

*ahem*
Nerifes is portrayed as a divine entity, in that, the Light element is referenced as Sea in Tales of Legendia. There are two entities on Shining Blue called "Nerifes"; one that which leads the Ferines, the will of the great ocean, and the other, smaller Nerifes within the hull of the Legacy called the Quiet Lands. To differentiate the two, they are first referenced as the Raging Nerifes (猛りの滄我 Takeri no Souga) and the Quiet Nerifes (静の滄我 Shizuka no Souga) respectively by Will Raynard. After the calming of the Raging Nerifes, it is renamed as the Great Nerifes (大いなる滄我 Ooinaru Souga).

I've typically gone by "Nerifes" in many online games through the years.
I took Raging Nerifes because originally I was a lalafell and I thought i'd be funny to be a little character that had "Raging" in his name.

Well, you wouldn’t expect me to tell you.

star wars before it sucked, and last name is game of thrones, you know... before it sucked >.>



......I need a name change....

back when Overwatch was really big I played Tracer often enough I was called Ms. McFly
I also like the Back to the Future

My ingame name is lore associated towards Seeker of the Sun
Lore/ canon race based names are the best names

Forum Name: The name of the first character I made in FF14. Yes, she's a "cat girl".

Current playing character: Named after a couple of characters in an old book I read. I thought the names were interesting so I used them in character creation.

I wanted something mythical, a goddess, so Erzulie was exotic enough and I also liked "Erzulie Fréda Dahomey, the Rada aspect of Erzulie, is the Haitian African spirit of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers." And One is my husbands last name ingame. Changed it when we got married.

Umm, this one originated from when I played other games. At one point I did Dragonverde, Dragonnegro, Dragonblanco, etc. Basically different colored dragons. Primarily because I like dragons but it also kind of made it easy for my friends or guild to identify me. Also because my very first character name, Darkwizard, wasn't available and I had to think outside the box. Sadly, that was when playing WoW and they flagged Dragonnegro as supposedly being racist, as it said "negro." They didn't care that all other characters were Spanish and all or that it was a legitimate and harmless term. So I was forced to rename it and generally got away from the Dragon names.

Here we are years later and most of my character names I've used were just single words. Thus in a game here that REQUIRES you to have 2 names, I just kind of figured I'd do Dragon name again. As to why "White Dragon" or Dragon Blanco," it just seemed to mesh better in origins. If you spend time looking at what white dragons symbolize, you'll see it's often death and rebirth. As for the color white, it's often holiness or purity. Then dragons for their wisdom, strength, and knowledge. For me as a healer, it seemed to kind of fit what I'm doing overall but vague enough that it could also apply to other roles.

To copy words from a page, here's what I mean about how symbolism can fit into the roles.

"White dragons can be split into two symbolic groups: lunar-white and solar-white.

Solar-white dragons are imbued with the power the sun, a symbol of holiness and purity. A solar-white dragon is associated with a sun god or a powerful god of creation.

A lunar-white dragon symbolizes death and rebirth. It embodies a dangerous and ferocious supernatural power, likely associated with a moon god or a mother goddess.

In China, a white dragon is an omen of death, a warning...."

No story, really.
Its just came up.

Vatom Basilisk is my characters name and I like to write fictions and other stories so yeah I though hard on a unique name and reason to why.

Vatom the name came from fusing Vladimir and bottom, if your wondering why bottom its was a simple word to symbolize has fall as a former noble.

Basilisk was a solid name that I had thought of that would sound very noble and have a cool interpretation that people could ask about.

I would explain his whole back story cause that would be too much but that was how I came up with his name and I haven't found anyone with that name yet on any server... so I think its unique enough.

When I picked Elezen I made up a name that looked and sounded Elvish to me. Little did I know at the time Elezen had French-inspired naming conventions, oops! Now I'm too attached to the character and name to change anything about it.

I wanted to be a Lancer when I first started, so I chose Adrian in Ancient Latin which means Dark and Gungnir which means Swaying One in Old Norse.

Adrian can be found in Scandinavian speaking countries and Germany too, and I think it still roughly means the same thing.

Dark Swaying One to emphasize my spear abilities (Its a minor RP thing).

I slightly regret the first name because I think I could have done better, but I can't change it because everyone knows me by that name now.

my cat's name is bunny and i like ff12

Cheko is my IRL nickname, and Pacheko just kind of rhymes

However, my initial intention was to name my character Cheko Pacheko.....but i messed up the names and put them backwards lol, on the fun side it sounds like a lala name

My main character is named Feral Savage because someone once remarked in a discord that "you fight like a feral savage!" I like the sound of the name so I took it and ran with it.

Tsiron's named after an ancient OC of mine (sort of, hers was Syron). I struggled to find a Mongolian name I liked, so it's fortunate that putting a T (like in Tsar) in front of that evoked the same feeling well enough I thought, based on my research at the time. I got Iriq from the official naming conventions thread:

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Iriq: A tribe that follows the Borlaaq, taking on any male children given up by the female warriors and raising them as their own.

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My original intention was to play a female Au Ra, but I couldn't deal with... the way they are, so making Tsiron look as feminine as I could manage was my compromise, and things developed from there. So their backstory's they were (seemingly) born female, except they didn't stop growing, and so the Borlaaq handed them over to the Iriq tribe. Tsiron took this badly and couldn't adapt, hence their becoming an adventurer and winding up in Eorzea.

... I eventually did make a female Au Ra alt, too: Shisen Akaitama! Neither her nor her family were important enough to have a surname, so her name's actually just Akaitama. She took up Shisen Akaitama (Akaitama no Shisen, "Gaze of Red Jewel", hopefully...) to make things easier for herself abroad, promoting her name to surname, and going by Shisen otherwise.

Probably easy to figure out why she was named "Red Jewel", but the reason I gave her heterochromia (as well as made half her face slightly darker) is because she's a chimera! As a result of also having her twin's share of a soul, she grew up way stronger than she had any right to be she's got the "Road to 70" buff, after all and left her boring mountain village in search of adventure!

The game doesn't necessarily need to explain why the WoL is as strong as they are since main character, you know how it goes, but I thought this idea too neat to pass up on. Works with the whole Sundering narrative and the split souls and everything, I think!

I like Dark Souls :)

When I made my character I knew I was going to predominately be a mage, but I wanted something different as I was hoping to make more of an Indian/Arabian/Persian stylized character. I stumbled upon an old Swedish movie and found the word Häxan [hɛksan] which means witch and thought it was pretty fitting. The name reminded me of an Arabic name Hassan/Hasan which means handsome or good. I decided to mix the two together and came up with Haxaan.

The last name was a little easier as I wanted something that fit the theme but also felt uniquely Final Fantasy and immediately thought of Shiva, who had a male counterpart named Shivar in the FFXII: Revenant Wings.

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Originally Posted by ItMe

Some people think a long time before deciding what their characters name is. Some pick one they think sounds fun, or one to match their friend.

Either way, what thoughts went into your name?
And if your name in game doesn't match your forum name, is there a story there too?


For my in game name,
I choose Iiiiiiiiiiit's Meeeee because I was gonna play as a short little Lala that would be hard to see, so I wanted a very wide name so I could always see it amidst the other players and explosions. My name was basically made to be a big sign so I'd always know where I am lol
Also, so I could be very cheeky. When my girlfriend was trying to find me when we first met up in game, she asked what my name was and I told her "you'll recognize me when you see me. My name will let you know that it's me."

As for my forum name,
I was having a lot of errors when I tried to enter I"iiiiiiiiiit's Meeeee" in as my forum name and ItMe is just the first variation it took.

How about for you?

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I don't kiss and tell. <3

It's a nod to an old Beatles track from the sixties.

"I don't really want to stop the show
But I thought that you might like to know
That the singer's gonna sing a song
And he wants you all to sing along
So let me introduce to you
The one and only Billy Shears
And Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, yeah"

As for the forum name, I use Breakbeat in quite a few places.

- A 'breakbeat' is a drum break that is looped. Breaks have been used as building blocks in various styles of music since the 1970s; and
- It's a specific genre of electronic dance music that was popular in the 1990s. The grandfather of Jungle, Drum and Bass, 2-step and Dubstep.

Well you see, it's actually QUITE IN depth.
My name is Gabi.
My character's name is Gabu.
I swapped a single letter, in a stroke of genius.
I use Gabadabs because in another Stroke of genius, I came up with it in like 2 minutes. It's really all just based off my name.

Alyss'ara was my DnD character. Its a play on my own name. As Im very bad at coming up with imaginative names as you can tell by my last name Windrunner. Which is an obvious take.

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Originally Posted by Kakurady

I've had a few people got excited about the name "Mango Durango", and it's a little embarrassing since it came literally in an hour... I found the generated names not grand enough for an RPG protagonist, and after asking a few friends, apparently Lalafell PCs have this food theme going on. Luckily, plainsfolk have the least restrictive canonical name pattern, so the name is almost lore friendly, but had I known better I might have picked something with less real world references - but then, it wouldn't be as cute.

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To elaborate a bit more: previously when I created characters for MMORPGs I went for whatever sounded nice. "Kakurady" is partly that, and partly inspired by Pokkle, the protagonist of Zwei: The Arges Adventure.

Having went by some variation on "Kakurady" since grade seven, I've decided to use a more meaningful name for my first (and so far, only) FFXIV character. "Mango" is the cute first name, which keeps the food theme, while "Durango" would be the more serious last name used for more formal occasions.

As a bonus, it's reasonably pronounceable in Japanese and fit the AB CB name pattern for male plainsfolk lalafells.

Riku is for the MTG card Riku of two Reflections and Reinhart because it's alliteration and sounds nice.

I have a bunch of names that I've been using in MMOs and TT games for over 20 years, none of them mean anything. They just sound like they would fit in the world, nothing else.

I love hearing everyone's story

Honestly, back in middle-school I'd played around with making my own comic. Super cringe now, but I'd planned on having this character being an ancient holy warrior or templar, who wound up in modern-day. The character was going to have Celtic origins, so I chose the name "Daemon Gildas"; Gildas meaning "He who serves God", and Daemon having two radically different meanings; one is "Demon", and other is "Guardian". So depending on context, you could read it as "Demon who serves God", or "Guardian who serves God".

For some reason, I just wound up reusing the name over the years. What's ironic is I don't actually LIKE the name very much; I just can't really think of anything better.

The name I WISH I could use, is simply "Terin". Back in the days of the SNES, my dad bought Mystic Quest (for himself, not necessarily for me). It was one of the coolest-looking games I'd ever seen! But I couldn't read (I think I was 4, slow to learn to read), so I'd try playing the game learning to read as I went.

Well one day, I accidentally save over my dad's save-file. In hindsight, I think he'd probably just stopped playing the game, but at the time I was FREAKING OUT he was going to kill me!!! So I tried to remember what his character's name was -- again, I still couldn't read well, but I could kind of remember the shapes of some of the letters. So I created a new file, and starting playing all the time, hoping to catch his save-file back up, so he wouldn't notice. The name my dad ACTUALLY had been using was "Tyrone", but I like to think I came admirably close, with "Terin". And so, I use the name "Terin" in virtually every RPG I'm able. Problem is... I don't have a good "last name" to pair it with.

There was one MMO I played back in like 2000 called "Asheron's Call". Because the name "Terin" had been taken, I'd somehow landed on the name "Terin Gigaslash" -- I was like 12, cut me some slack. It's one of those names that's "so bad, it almost seems kind of endearing", at least to me. I've thought about name-changing to that, but... honestly, I really like Lore-friendly names when I play RPG's now. My original Miqo'te Monk, I wound up calling "Desmond Tia". And granted, "Desmond" isn't exactly lore-friendly, but honestly, it just *looked* like that would be his name.

I love the Xaela's lore and naming conventions, but I just couldn't land on a Tribe that would make sense for my Warrior of Light. And besides, if for some reason I ever DID decide to race-change my dude, I'd like a name my friends could still recognize me. So I'm kinda leaning towards something with "Terin" again. Just not sure on a last-name. "Gigaslash" sucks, but I remember pondering how surprisingly similar it sounded to "Gilgamesh", wondered if that would be any less cringey?

Valamist = The first fictional character I created when I started writing properly. If memory recalls, he was a gay demon who wanted to be more like humans.

Hurlstone = An old family name which has unfortunately been lost now. I like to keep it going in games and fiction.

I am a hrothgar, of the lost.

My name needs no explanation. No queen, no horn.

Endwalker is bringing in some new faces.
If any of you are up for sharing the story behind your name I'd love to read about it~

I made my moon kitty here during an All Saint's Wake event so I wanted to make a Halloween kitty. Black hair, pumpkin eyes, boom boom magic.

Licorice because it's black candy. And I watched an anime with a character whose name was Licorice and I thought it was really cute.

Nightshade for deadly nightshade which is another name for the belladonna plant.

I got a pretty simple answer to this one. My name was actually a name I came up with long before I started playing this game, which I believe was a month after shadowbringers first coming out.

Pandora being based on the greek mythology of pandora's box, and the box being considered an object of great curiosity, just that raw need on knowing things, since I'm a very nosey person and tend to be too curious for my own good it suits me.

Nychta just means night in greek I just wanted to literally go ham on the greek based words. Sorta stuck that way since, occasionally I wanted to make my name more realistic to miqo'te standards like p'dora or something but it's honestly way too much effort given how the tribes are with miqote so I just based it around something else to make it work.

That's the story of my goofy name, People usually call me Pandie or Panda (I hate being called a panda but I just roll with it now) and it's been like this ever since.