How did you name your character?

To Chicken To Die [Mo] - Can't remember it was 51 months ago XD

My Arrows go pjew [R] - Well no clue I bet I was drunk but like it so keep it

Other chars just going made and deleted in less then a month or so. New names randomly just making them up at the spot.

For my warrior, I went with the name I'm known by among my geek / con / re-enactment friends, Dylyn (Welsh for numbskull) and Caeruleus (Latin for blue-eyed which I am IRL).

My other character names I get from Quenya (one of the Elven languages created by JRR Tolkien). I have 4 chars who all have the last named Khiasa (nomad). Their first names I either got from on-line elvish name generators or from a list of Quenya words with translations --
Zairalin (generated name) , dervish
Avathara (shadowy), assassin
Silmaia (combined words for angel and starlight), paragon
Morimatra (spiced wine), ritualist

I also have a few rarely-used chars with silly names, like Duke Bookah. I used to have a Rit named Master Nostradumass but deleted it.

I tend to use name websites (behindthename.com being my one of choice, followed by 20000-names.com) to look at ideas for names for characters. The names I choose tend to match the campaign the character comes from. I don't necessarily use proper naming patterns, but I at least attempt to match cultures/ethnicities. So Prophecies characters have European names, Factions characters have East Asian names, and Factions characters have African/Middle-Eastern/Indian names. All of my characters are female, btw.

I have -

Verene Sarrasri -- Prophecies Ranger. She's actually the exception to my general rule, in that her name came from two characters from books by Tamora Pierce (Verene was the name of a Puppy in Terrier, and Sarrasri comes from Daine Sarrasri). Still, however, fits my naming convention.
Yui Kuromiya - Assassin
Iseul Nae - Ritualist
Farai Savitri - Dervish
Arien Candelas - Prophecies Warrior (perma-pre)
Lucia Cheval - Prophecies Mesmer
Shizuka Kiyomizu - Factions Necromancer

I have considered using the names of my RP characters, but since I've yet to be able to really replicate any of them in-game, I don't do that

Brutus Godly- Eh tu, Brute'? (Ceasar)

Vizu Aint Got Shiz- Vizu, one of the main protagonists in the Factions storyline has got nothin' compared to this sin!

The Killing Lights- My favorite song on AFI's "Decemberunderground" album.

Dunky Baby - Basically my name with baby on the end.
I Dunky I - My name with I on each end.
Traper Dunk - My name with Trapper spelt wrong on the front.
Hung like a Dunky - My name with 'Hung like a' on the front.
Inferno Dunko - my name with Inferno on the front.
Less Crying Is Key - Someone in guild chat was QQing, so I made this and it stuck.

Imagination is everything

I tend to strictly stick with Yiddish or Romany words and names.

My only current character is Tzeitel Makhesheyfe. Since Tzeitel is a Necromancer I figured Makhesheyfe (Literally meaning witch) seemed appropriate.

I usually use something that relates to thier proffesion for the first word (Mesmer, hunter, Minion) and make up a really cool name for the last

I started off naming my character after my favorite video game Grandia, then I went to mythology. I get the names from www.godchecker.com. The last names are the same for each campain. The proph name was to long and limited my choices for first names so I went with shorter last names for the other campains.

Prophecies last name Dragonhart, I liked the sound of the name, and Hart is my grandmother's maiden name.
Gadwin, male warrior, Grandia 1
Selene, female warrior, Grandia 2
Melfice, male ele, Grandia 2
Lilith, female necro,she started as a Mesopotamian demon with a shape of a harpy, later adopted by the Jews.
Diana, female ranger, roman goddes of the hunt.
Rhea, female ele, mother of the Greek gods.
Freya, female mesmer, leader of the Norse valkyries.
Hela, female necro, Norse goddess of the underworld, the place where the lazy go to.

Factions last name Nian, Chinese for beast.
Meng Po, female rit, she is the last of the chinese afterlife bureaucracy, she gives the potion of forgetfulness.
Guan Yu, male sin, he is one of the 3 great generals of the Han Dynasty (I might make the other 2 someday)
Aslan, male monk. The Narnia movie just came out.
Fengh Huang, female ele, I missed spelled her name, but I got the tengu mask, she is one of the 4 holy beasts aka Si Ling, you will recognize them from the "Closer to the stars" mission. She is the Phoenix.
Gui Xian, male warrior, he weilds an axe and is the turtle of the Si Ling.
Lung Wang, male rit, is is the dragon Si Ling.
Qui Lin, male ranger, he is the unicorn/kirin of the Si Ling.
Wen Shi, femal sin, her historical name is Long Mu, she is considered the mother of dragons.
Yen Lo, male necro, he is in charge of the Chinese underworld

Nightfall, Bumba, he is the Congo creator god.
Anasai, male mes, West Africa trickster god, he is represented by a spider.
Nzambi female warrior, the name is from the Angola creator, somehow I got the name wrong, the name was suposed to be from the goddes of justce and earthquakes (if I find out the proper name I may change it). She uses a hammer.
Oya, female paragon, she is a warrior goddess of western Africa.
Yemaya feamle dervish, she is the western African mother of waters.
Enkidu, male dervish, he is from Mesopotamia, he is know as Giglamesh's friend.
Ninmah aka Ninhursaga, female monk, she is from Mesopotamia, she created Enkidu, she is the mother goddess.
Gilgamesh, male paragon, he is from Mesopotamia, he is an anceint king of Mesopotamia.
Ishtar, female mes, she is from Mesopotamia, the goddess of love.

Yes, there is 25 and yes I have played all of them.

My first and second character are named after cats I had (one died before I started playing GW, the other now lives with my ex).
The others are from various mythologies.

i just think about something or am obsessed with something, i like to thin
i'm thinknig about the character and world XD.
e.g.:

Elk trail (ranger)= trail is for tracking, elk is for animals (i'm one of those cazy people who keeps their lvl20 pets for no reason)

Use Loreal (ritualist)= i don't and never have used loreal, i just guess i was in a strange mood that day?

This is probably silly, but I've named my female characters the names I had considered if my son had been a daughter.

Eleanor, Clarice, Audrey and Daphne. With a snazzy adjective ( except for Eleanor ). My son just picks names off the top of his head for his male characters.

i have used same nickname for my characters for the past decade and a half.. I was fasinated by Ghosts in my..early days and well thats where the name comes from last name is. personal and has a hidden meaning so i use it when ever possible to make me "unique" =)

I have been going with wings or birds themes in all my games...earlier I mostly played space or airplanes games of various kinds.
In GW I stuck to the Raven theme.
Hrefna Asynja my main and nec= Raven Goddess in old norse.
Tiger Raven, When I saw the white tiger in preview factions I made my ranger and named after the pet I wanted
Alesia the Raven...I wanted to make a monk that was better than the henchmen, it wasnt real hard lol
Flyvende Ravn, my derv girl =Flying Raven in danish
For Ascalon an Oink, my pre char, a total joke name. And I have a pre bear named Oink lol

Mostly either a personal favorite, mythical or historical name and Faure added to it. This does not apply for my monk and necro, because they are too old. They are named Galena Althea (monk, both names meaning something with healing) or Zablula Darkness (necro, Zabula is devil in latin, but I didn't notice the typo until i was level 16).

The rest is ... Faure
Ariona (derv, no further meaning)
Athena (warrior, greek goddess)
Arthemis (ranger, greek goddess)
Gabriella (mesmer, no further meaning)
Giulia (ele, no further meaning)
Marcus Brutus (Sin, murderer and brother of Juilus Caesar)
Maxima (paragon, maximus from gladiator, but nonetheless a powerful name)
Nephthys (rit, egyptian goddess, in greek)

And my PvP char used to be Le Frog (Flushed Away-movie char), but people start talking french to me and i don't understand a word french + i hate the language (failed at it at high school), so now it's just F A U R E

Smooth Head: A warrior without hair

Frozen Lowlander: I am Dutch and originally made this char to be a water ele

Innocent Smoothie: A silent protest against a few guildies who claimed that I am the origin of every sex-related talk in the guild chat

Colm Dudeee : Dudeee has been my "handle" for a long time (long story involving the game Shining Force), Colm comes from the thief in Fire Emblem, I was playing it when I started playing GW

Wat Buddhawat : named after the temple I used to go to

Nights Into Dreams (and variations of that name) : from the game Nights Into Dreams.

Pack Five Sixty Six : My old Boy Scout pack number <--she's my mule

My nick name plus the class.Easy enough

Lady Deathdancer was from some name generator thing I found when I first started playing GW. It sounds like its from one though, don't it? =P

I also have Sue Aside (on my mesmer) and Homic Idol (PVP or Pre char) just for novelty. I could have sworn I would have thought Sue Aside would have been taken already, since I made the char around when factions came out.

Antipathy Acrimonia [monk]: grab a dictionary. I was going to use Acrimonious for the second name, but it sounded too manly so changed it to Acrimonia. 2x the hate, gotta love it.

Dementia Desdemona [ele]: roughly meaning insanity of the devil, seemed fitting for an ele.

Lucina Blackvein [ele 2, survivor]: twisted around the name of a friend's ele, Lucian Blackvein.

Unas Slayerofgods [war]: named after a Nile song, Unas Slayer of the Gods, based on a myth about how Unas (an ancient egyptian Pharaoh) killed and ate the gods in order to achieve immortality.

Narcissia: 10-12 years ago we read a story of Echo and Narcissus in school and I pretty much became obsessed with the name Narcissus. I wanted a more feminine sounding version though, so changed it to Narcissia and have been using the name in games ever since. I'm sure JK Rowling probably had the same idea when coming up with Narcissa's name, sucks that they're so familiar. I didn't copy it though, great minds think alike I suppose.

Narcissia Narcotica [rit]: not sure why I chose Narcotica, it's a genus of moth. I just liked how it sounded. Never meant for it to sound/be drug-related *shrug*.
Narcissia Necrotica [nec]: obvious... necro with a tica on the end to make it longer? Or Necrotic with an a on the end to make it sound nicer with Narcissia? whatever.
Narcissia Neurosis [mes]: Neurosis refers to a class of functional mental disorder involving distress but not delusions nor hallucinations, where behavior is not outside socially acceptable norms (copy, paste ftw). Fitting for a mesmer, obviously.
Narcissia Nyx [para]: Nyx, taken from Greek mythology, was the primordial goddess of the night. gogo texmodded black wings. Tried to stay away from the whole bright shiney paragon stuff I suppose, though her armor is still all white....meh....
Narcissia Neith [sin]: me trying to be cleaver, Neith was the patron deity of Sais (the egyptian town, not the dagger but I thought it'd be interesting to use it anyway since sai are actually one of my favorite dagger skins...iuno). Goddess of war and hunting.
Narcissia Swath [derv]: swath is the space created by the swing of a scythe. so yea...
Narcissia Sins [ranger 1]: Sins... not the in assassin way. She looks like a 12 year old prostitute honestly...
Narcissia Shezmu [ranger 2]: Shezmu is the ancient Egyptian demonic god of execution, slaughter, blood, and wine. Just an awesome name.

Nessus Necrotica [only male char, LDoA nec]: a centaur killed by Heracles, whose tainted blood in turn killed Heracles because Deianira was a dumb bitch.

Pseudo Antipathy [pvp]: Pseudo Antipathy is basically projecting our own faults in someone else and hating them for it. Neat concept and I find that it can be true.

I Heart Geeks [mule]: because geeks are sexy. Not kidding.

Zombie Need Brain [mule]: because I love zombies and the mask made me very happy.



anyway, enjoy my wall of text. I usually put too much effort into character naming... annoying really.

Aminta Nitya: Meaning defender always or protector eternal or something close to that. Figured it'd be perfect for a warrior.

Haruko Isamu: Haruko meaning spring time or sunlight and Isamu meaning bravery/courage.

I can't remember how to spell my Dervish's name but it translates to beautiful whirlwind which seemed perfect.