So, you named your character after lore conventions. What did you name them & why?

[RomildaRayne]

Romilda is an ancient Germanic name meaning "famous battle" and Rayne is a Germanic surname using the element "ragin" meaning "advice" or "counsel." I like alliterative names, though I'm aware it also sounds like that one witch from Harry Potter who tried to drug him.

Jin Mitsurugi's surname follows Raen naming conventions. Mitsurugi (御剣) means "heavenly sword." His chosen given name, Jin (仁), is one of the eight virtues of Bushido, and means "benevolence" or "compassion." The name he was given at birth was Ryunosuke (龍之介), meaning "dragon's herald."

Victoire Vaillancourt comes from the French form of Victoria, which is a Latin name meaning "victory," and a French surname mostly found in Quebec that means "low-lying farm."

Adamantia Argentum is a Latinized variant of the Greek "ἀδάμας" meaning "invincible." In Latin, it refers to diamonds, or the mythical metal adamant known for its impenetrable hardness. Her surname is the Latin "argentum" meaning "silver," and is a reference to Prompto Argentum, who is also a friendly, blonde machinist from his game's Empire. When she still served the imperial army, her title was "jen," which refers to an Architectus: a field engineer, sapper, and pilot.

Valerie Voss is an English and German feminine form of the Latin name Valerius, which means "to be strong." Her surname, Voss, is a Low German name meaning "fox." As she's a red mage, I felt Valerie would connect to Valentine, conveying the color red, and that her surname would evoke the image of Zorro, that masked vigilante known for using a rapier.

Namimi Nami follows Plainsfolk naming conventions but also has some hidden meanings in Japanese. Her Doman tutors have informed the young kunoichi that the word "nami" means "wave" and "minami" means "south." As Llymlaen, goddess of navigation and guardian deity of Nami's homeland, Limsa Lominsa, is represented by the wave, she took a liking to it. Likewise, her lineage hails from the south sea isles. She sometimes flips the characters while operating in the Far East, creating the pseudonym "Nanba" (南波) or "southern wave."

As someone mentioned before, Khara is a Mongolian name meaning "black." Thus, Khara Kagon is a rather too appropriate name for a Xaela who wields black magic. As she was illiterate when she arrived in Eorzea, Khara chose the spelling of the name herself.

Red Beast is a Hellsguard name, and is thus derived from the Roegadyn name "Rhotroeg," the unflattering name given to her by her father when her birth took her mother's life. It means "red monster" but she chooses to translate it as "Red Beast" for mercenary work.

[SilverArrow20XX]

Well, my name has nothing to do with canon race naming conventions, but this seems like a general name explanation thread at this point.

Muteki in Japanese for invincible. That's the name I chose for FFXI, but it was already taken, so I added a "maru" which is a common suffix for boy's names.
I carried this name over to FFXIV and decide on the last name of "Godhand" based on the reoccurring Monk weapon in the series, since I always play Monk. I'm also a big fan of the PS2 game "Godhand" but this had nothing to do with the name.

[Deli]

Originally, I played FFXI tarutaru for 6 years and settled with Deli__ name for a while. To me, should be pronounced as Deli- __, but people kept pronounced it as De-like-__.
So, at FF14 I just simplified it as Deli.
I settled with Roegadyn since 1.0 beta. I realized as a Roe can see so far instead of lots floor in my screen... Fortunately, Hellsguards' first name can be anything, so it's prefect for me. Deli ______.

I looked at the Roegadyn Dictionary for a long time to find the loop hole for a shorter last name. Denkryst was the final result that I think it might work.

Denkryst should be "Thinking Crystal" Denkyr + Kryst but it will be too long as Denkyrkryst, just in case someone want to type my full name. I see I can play a trick as the Denkyr switch the yr and merge together with Kryst. Thus, after switched a little and shorten it became Denkryst.

Or you can think it as "Think + n + Crystal" rule but missed n and additional k Denknkryst

My other char from other account was a female Roe, she is Ramen (friend gave me his account for 5 years(my sidekick) at FFXI too) Denkgeim. Ramen Think-Jewel.

[Lium]

Brielle Artemus is the name of a graphic novel character. The former Greek goddess Artemis who took the forename Brielle to honor her husband, the former archangel Gabriel. Who then took the surname Artemus in honor of Brielle.

Since they were married, Brielle inherited that surname as well. Thus becoming Brielle Artemus.

Ironically, I find the name works well in the Final Fantasy universe. Especially considering in the book, Brielle is known as the Phaesporia, meaning the Light-bringer.

In this game she is the Warrior of Light, also referred to as the Light-bringer. Imagine my surprise when I saw that. Had no idea that’s who the player character was when I made this character. :-)

[Tint]

I found out about the lore names in the long wait between the closed and open beta, and since i wanted to role play with my character i decided such a lore name would be nice.

I am a female Plainsfolk Lalafell. My name is Karuru Karu.

To find that name i was going through all the syllables you can build with just 2 letters, starting at Aa, over Ti, until i finally reached Zu. I was writing down all the syllables wich i found had a nice sound. After that was done, I started to combine all that nice sounding syllables and again writing down wich sounded nice together. Eventually only Ka and Ru were left and so i got my name \^^/ And I still like it 5 years later.

But I want to mention that I am german, wich means that the pronunciation is a bit different as when you speak the syllables / name in english.

[SummonerSenah]

When I started in ARR I was a Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te and my name was Senah Moshroca. I used a name generator, but it was lore accurate. I changed to a Xaela Au Ra for Heavensward and changed my last name to be lore accurate, but I kept Senah because by that time everyone was used to it.

I retconned my rp backstory to have lore reasons for having a Keeper name. Senah’s family is pretty typical for Khas: they live on the outskirts of Xaela land and seek out contact with non Auri peoples. Senah grew up in a poly household with an Au Ra mother, an Au Ra father, and a Keeper of the Moon Mi'qote father, hence her first name following Keeper conventions rather than Xaela conventions.

[ShadowMeowth]

This could be interesting. I have lots of alts with their own story, but I love them all. As time passed, their names became closer to the naming conventions so here I come.

First, the Guardians of Light's side.

Faith Sol'une (X'wyhn Lehn) [WHM]
Faith, the Warrior of Light is my main character, a Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te. She was the first character I made, and then I did not know about naming conventions. She was made to resemble my favorite Final Fantasy character, Hope Estheim (FFXIII), so since she was female I gave her the name "Faith", and as for Sol'une it is a corruption for "sun" and "moon" in Latin.

Later I decided to give Faith a backstory, so I gave her her birth name, X'wyhn Lehn. She is from the Lynx tribe mainly because lynxes are my second favorite animal. She was born in Meracydia, in a coastal village named Sol'une that was decimated by a plague with only her, the future Warrior of Light, as a survivor. She was adopted by an Elezen family that lived in an island south of Sharlayan, and they gave her the name "Faith". She is technically Faith Girbois, since she is formally part of the family, but she took the name of her birthplace as an adventurer.

Yansa Ru'shi [NIN]
Yansa is my Xaela Auri ninja, and as for her she is not entirely true to the naming conventions but she has backstory. Yansa is the name of the Yoruba goddess of sorcery and wife to Shango, god of thunder and war. As for Ru'shi, it is the romanization for l'Cie, a term of FFXIII and Type-0. Basically, the Ru'shi tribe is a relatively recent one that lives in seclusion in the Fanged Crescent and pursues intelectual enlightment, and they are made of outcasts from other Xaela tribes but only children born amidst the tribe earn the right to have the surname Ru'shi.

Leona Wyznloef (Wyznloef "Leona" Alyrsthalwyn) [BRD]
Leona is a Hellsguard Roegadyn, and her "surname" is actually her name. She is from Thavnair, so she does not follow your usual Hellsguard naming convention, even though they are just basically the translated names of Sea Wolves. She is a renowned bard and mercenary and she is usually referred to as "Wyznloef the Lioness" or simply "Leona Wyznloef", so she basically ran with it. Wyznloef means "white leaf".

Lyanne Blanchateau [RDM]
Lyanne is a Duskwight Elezen hailing from the Cieldalaes, yet her father Feliciaint was a native of the Black Shroud with Gelmorran ancestry. Lyanne is a name I simply liked, and Blanchateau, well, is a bit of an inside thing of the FFXIII trilogy.

Samra & Mikhel (Rhyu'a) Shir'valah [SAM/BLM]
The Shir'valah siblings! They are Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te. Samra is the older sister, whose name means "ruler" in I-do-not-remember-which-language, and Mikhel's uncommon name comes from their adoptive parents, who named him after his late father, Mikh'to Zhwan, though of course his birth name is Rhyu'a, since their mother was Rhyu Shir'valah. Shir'valah is a made-up Keeper of the Moon surname, and it is based on a now deleted ability of World of Warcraft druids that would allow them to become a half-panther humanoid, and it was called the "Claws of Shirvallah".

Ryuzan Kyouko [PLD]
A Raen Auri paladin from Hingashi, Ryuzan's name is kinda Japanese sounding, and of course it has the "ryu" part that means "dragon". As for his surname, Kyouko, I do not know how old it sounds, but still, it is the first name of one of the main characters of Danganronpa, Kyo(u)ko Kirigiri.

Joana (bas) Strome [MNK]
Yes, she is a Highlander Hyur monk with a Garlean naming convention. Her Ala Mhigan family fleed from the Garlean invasion into Ilsabard, and then they settled there and became acknowledged citizens of the Empire. Joana is a fairly straightforward name, as for Strome, it is like an old-English like spelling of "storm", which I felt appropriate for a monk.

And now for the Guardians of Shadow's side!

Nagi Uranai [AST]
The Warrior of Shadow, a Raen Auri astrologian who was born in Sui-no-Sato and abandoned by her parents in the Azim Steppe because they thought her shadow powers and dark skin in a Raen were a bad omen. She was found by the Iriq and adopted by their khan. In Japanese, "nagi" ナギ is a word for a lull in a storm, and "uranai" means prediction/divination.

Khaara Iriq [MCH]
Nagi's adoptive sister, a Xaela Auri machinist, who bodyguards and protects her wherever she goes. She, of course, is of the Iriq tribe, and her name, though corrupted, comes from "kara", which in Irish means "friend" or "love".

Victoriel Matiere [WHM?]
A Wildwood Elezen and descendant of heretics, Victoriel is a healer but still has not found his true calling and potential. His name (and all of his family's) is based on a French artist/writer I like; in his case, it is Victor Hugo. Matiere is the name of a character in Pokémon X/Y, but overall it is a rather common French name/surname.

Dhemswys Swarnahctwyn [DRG]
Of course, Dhemswys, or Dhemie for short, is a Sea Wolf Roegadyn. She comes from the islands in the North and is part of the Shadow Hunters, though she went to Ishgard to train further in the lance and ended up being the first Roegadyn that was accepted as a dragoon. Dhemswys means "dusk sister" (her older sister is Trachswys, "dragon sister") and her father's name Swarnahct means "black night".

L'nhei Mhaat & L'zhai Tia [WAR/SMN]
And these are the Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te twins! Treasure hunters and last members of a fraction of the L tribe that settled in the Dalmasca Desert. Since they are twins, their names are meant to sound similar, though their father's name, L'mhaat, comes from the Ancient Egyptian term of "maat", which was both the word and the goddess of justice. Oh!, and they are from the L tribe, which is, the Vipers. That is because my favorite animal are snakes.

Aina Roig i Valls (Aina Roig) [DRK]
A Midlander Hyur that hails from a particularly isolated village in the New World that has its own naming conventions and customs. Actually, all their names are common Valencian (a dialect of Catalan) names. Aina is the Valencian spelling of "Anna", and her surnames Roig and Valls mean respectively "red" and "valleys".

Yrere Yre [SCH]
And finally, the Plainsfolk Lalafell scholar, Yrere Yre, hailing from Sharlayan but student at the Magitek Academy in Garlemald. Names are rather limited if you want to stick close to the Lalafell naming conventions, but I found Yrere's name pretty endearing.

So there they are. All sixteen for now. When new jobs come out, more characters shall join. And I will be able to give poor Victoriel a proper job instead of being a WHM just like my main.

[Rosenoire]

I named my character as close to my screen name as possible while staying within Xalea lore. I couldn't find the Mongolian word for "obsidian", so I went with the color of the rock. Khara (qara) means black. Gal means fire. So yes, my character has one of the most cliche "cool" names ever. It fits given she is primarily a summoner though...

Great name! My Xaela's name is Galqar. I wanted it to be "Dark Fire" because I was originally planning to make him a DRK, and I figured I'd go all in with the edgelord thing. (Turns out, I never could overcome my tanxiety), but oh well. I went with the noun-adjective construction because I liked the way it sounded, and since we're told that things like spelling vary widely, I thought it made sense that pronounciations and naming conventions might have varying dialects.

My headcanon is that in his tribe, children don't get their permanent names until they're a year old, at which point the parents take them to the shaman, who reads the stars to determine what their name should be. In Galqar's case, his name reading indicated that his curiosity would be both his glory (fire) and despair (dark). His backstory is that he was kidnapped by Imperials after running out to look at a passing Imperial ship instead of hiding with the rest of the tribe. Ultimately, this set him on the path to becoming the WoL.

As far as the tribe, I chose the Haragin because I live on the Pacific Coast of the US and I love it, and also because I liked their lore snippet. I've come up with a ton of headcanon about them where they believe they are the children of the Dusk Mother and the sea (which explains the moon's influence over the tides), and that they never show up to the Naadam because they're happy to hang on the coast and sail and fish. Most of their fishing is done with a spear, which explains why Galqar started out as a lancer.

[Rosenoire]

Galqar's my main, but I also have:

Julien Lefaucon: Duskwight Elezen with a Google Translated French for "Julian Hawke", my Dragon Age 2 character.

Zizig Mol: A Lalafell who's name literally means "Small" in Mongolian. He was rescued as an infant after a natural disaster by the Mol dude who served as a mercenary, and grew up on the Steppes.

Qih'sae Nbolo: Keeper Miqo'te who's a sixth son. People made all kinds of snide remarks about his mother being unlucky for having six male children.

Midnight Heron: Hellsguard Roe from Doma. Her real name is something different; her father used to call her his "little heron" and she's got dark skin and hair, so that's what she chose when she adopted a new name after leaving home.

[Lium]

My Au Ra ninja is named Yu Daiyu, but I actually have a question about that for anyone that's fluent in Mandarin and/or Chinese culture. The lore behind the character is that she's actually an empress-in-waiting who will one day take her place in the Ziwei Star (the North Star) to watch over The Way as the new Jade Empress, which comes from Taoism.

But I think her name should actually be Yu Daiyu Huanghou. Which would mean the "Black Jade Empress" if I'm not mistaken. Is that correct?