Whenever I start an MMO I make a "trial" character based off of one of my own characters, without looking at the Lore, so my first, Johannes Lenneth was mostly named after myself and as a nod to Valkyrie Profile. Afterwards I made my "alt" which became my main in Faerie: Samniel Atkascha, first name is made up and one of my fictional characters (I wanted a gender-neutral form of combining both the male Samuel with the female Samantha, the -el suffix normally being angelic in use and which means "of God"), last name is a reference to Ivalicean Royalty, specifically Princess Ovelia.

Then in 3.0 I went Au Ra and wanted a more Lore-appropriate name so I changed it to Ranmaru Stormcaller, Ranmaru from Mori Ranmaru, Nobunaga Oda's page/alleged male lover, and Stormcaller as something similar to Yugiri Mistwalker's epithet: as a (then) Summoner, I wished to convey that I was calling up the storm against my foes (was then hoping for a Ramuh-egi). When Stormblood, and more specifically, Ivalice, got announced, I switched back to the now-somewhat-lore appropriate Samniel Atkascha (XIV and Ivalice-lore wise, the Atkascha bloodline would have gone extinct with Ovelia, and most definitely be hyuran instead of miqo'te but I'm bending that one as far as it can go).