I need a character name!! (anyone else with this issue is welcome to this new brainstorming party....)

I need help… with a character, who came out of #$%^&*!@ nowhere, and does not have a name!!!!!
I will answer any and all questions just pls help,
also heads up i am picky about names so pls dont be mad if i shoot down a ton very quickly

@Wry_Wyvern

What is the character's gender? Ethnicity? Personality? General feeling/aesthetic?

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Male, Anything, [Rude, big ego, cocky, prankster, mistrusting, (cover for shy, creative, innovative, traumatized smol child)], Basically a big shock/surprise/game changer/ and he literally messes everything up by existing…. (One of my MC's Aka this childs dad was NOT who i thought he was….)

@Wry_Wyvern

Here's a few that I think give off that vibe; I can give you more if you want:

-Ryker
-Axel
-Avery
-Carter
-Niall
-Blake
-Jaden/Jadon
-Hunter
-Ajax

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Not hunter… Definetly not hunter…. His parents never would have called him that… Ryker I will add to the list of possibilities

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

Alright, so my characters are all old OCs that I'm trying to re-use and I named most of them with a random Japanese name generator, so they don't really fit at all. I'm mostly worried about two of my characters, Akira and Luna. Akira because she's a girly girl and that's a boy name, and Luna because… Let's be honest that name is SO overused. With Luna, I'd prefer a name that's older because she's a spirit and has been alive for a few thousand years. With Akira, I'd prefer something that starts with A, and no, Angelina or any names containing Angel will NOT work.

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

Also EVERY SINGLE ONE of my characters need surnames and I have no idea what to do about it. Any ideas? I have 6 characters on here but two of them are siblings so that’s 5, and I also have multiple characters I haven’t added on here that need last names so… 10 or more? I know that’s a lot but any suggestions would be really helpful!

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Wow… Join the club mate… So personalties on the first 2? and I will see what i can do!

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For surnames, I like to combine either short, general words together or just mix up a bunch of sounds, however, some names merely sound cool. Some can also function as first names, but it's all up to you.
Here are some that I think are pretty decent.

Skystorm
Levandrix
Avantera
Heath
Ell
Clearwater
Rennatia
Maelstromer
Stunedallan
Vannici
Clarelde
Famus

@Joy_

A cool tip for surnames, get a phone book, church directory, or visit a cemetery. As for names that start with A, I've always liked these:

Allysa
Alexandra
Aida
Ashely
Atriana (Ah-Tre-Anna)
Ariadne
Anna
Allison
Athena
Aphrodite
Artimis

Hope these help you!

@moss

December 12, 2018

The first one gives me a Carter vibe

@RJ-world-building

These are all great websites that might help:

https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fantasy-surnames.php
English and French surname generator for fantasy type characters like Truthseeker, Blazewillow, Runeswift or Polaveron, Abolle, Échefort

https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/japanese_names.php
First names and surname generator for male and female Japanese characters like Sakata Takayuki, Matsutoya Eizo, Mikami Shunsuke (male) or Okita Are, Sako Kayoko, Homura Emio (female). Theses are presented with the surname first and first name second.

https://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/japanese
Website that shows the meaning alongside the name. It also lets you filter masculine, feminine and unisex names, and surnames. This link is specifically for Japanese names, but you can find names from any country in the world, and even from specific periods in time or different mythologies (Lithuanian, Persian mythology, Biblical Latin, Ancient Greek, etc).

https://japanese-names.info
Seriously useful website. You can find male, female and unisex names, and also filter the search to only have names starting with a certain letter. This website is probably one of the best for Japanese name meanings, as when you click on a name it will show you all the different name meanings and Kanji combinations it could have, even the rare ones which you won't be able to find on other sites. I HIGHLY recommend this one for Japanese names.

https://jisho.org
A Japanese-English dictionary that helps to find words, kanji, example sentences etc quickly and easily. I use this site a lot when I am researching Japanese names and want to find the meaning of a certain kanji without relying on google translate.

https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com
This is the main website which a couple of the above links are from. This is such a useful website with over 1200 name generators to use. It not only has name generators for fantasy and real names for people, but also for places (dungeons, schools, hospitals, brewery names, etc), popular culture names (OC names for works like Harry Potter, Pokemon, etc), description generators (Alien races, ghost towns, prophecies), and other names (graffiti tags, music band names, diseases, artwork titles, etc).

Hope these are alright!

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

UPDATE: Luna has been re-named to Lyra and the not-so-evil-antagonist is now named Vega, I'm still thinking of names for Akira.

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

…I could make her parents weebs and use that as an excuse for her Japanese name

@RJ-world-building

If you really want her to have a Japanese name, why not just make one of her parents Japanese? Or give her non-Japanese name and have her use a Japanese name as a code name or something? IDK

@Althalosian-is-the-father

Has anybody asked genre?

@IDKWrites

rhix

@The-N-U-T-Cracker

I don't necessarily want her name to be Japanese, but all of my characters are Mary Sues I made years ago that I'm trying to fix, and my smol idiot self named every single one of them with a random Japanese name generator.

@The-N-U-T-Cracker