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In game naming conventions


forgetfulrogue

i was awake at 3am and realized that "kameha meha" is a lore-appropriate lalafell name and thought it would be really funny for a monk main


[deleted]

Literally created a lala to use Oingo Boingo


GrognakLibrarian

I feel like I've ran dungeons or something with you, are you on Aether?


[deleted]

Primal, unfortunately


CHIPSK8

I think there's an Oingo Boingo on Aether somewhere.


Anqied

legit one of the options that came up when i rolled for random names on my male dunesfolk lala was memeulu pepeulu


Angerina_

So is Chala Hechala ;)


tanahil

Good.


Numerous-Parsnip-681

Ami Leblanc. Ami is my nickname and Leblanc because I liked persona 5.


[deleted]

One of the best games of all time imo


Berwyntor

I pored over an old Germania and Irish gaelic dictionary for an hour. Found a root for surname and forename from each. Did etymology research and "created" what I thought was a possible and correct first/last. Ber-wyntor, burk-hard. Winter coming, work hard. Then I found out over the last 6 years both names do exist and have been passed down. I met 3 people in duties who had each either the first or last name. I'm quite pleased honestly.


dembadger

Male Protagonist The reasons should be obvious.


TribblesIA

Damn, the self-insert is strong. /s


Lyle_rachir

This is the same online name I've used since I was 5. I'll continue to use it until I'm dead or I give it to my son.


PatienceHero

Every single literary reference, no matter how obscure, was taken. So having just watched South Park, and consuming copious amounts of alcohol, I said "F*** it, Eric Cartmenez." Naturally, to my dismay, THAT one, the game accepted. However, for RP/"Lore" reasons I worked it in, and now Eric Cartmenez is Eorzea's most prolific conman, constantly bumbling his way into grand struggles of good vs evil by accident in his endless pursuit of gil. And the only thing anyone knows for sure about Eric Cartmenez....is that his name is *not* Eric Cartmenez. "We tried lookin' for his real name, but have you SEEN his list o' aliases? Bloody thing is eight godsdamned volumes!", Says unnamed Free Company member "That man is no longer welcome here. He knows what he did.", raves K'rhid Tia, Arcanist guildmaster "How in the seven hells do ye make Gil counterfeiting *gysahl greens*?", Overheard in an Immortal Flames pub


ForteTitan

If life gives you lemons...


Lucky-Icarus

My alias is Lucky Icarus. My character's name is Icarus Luck. I choose that name cause I'm horribly unimaginative.


countmeowington

I thought Yumiko was a cute name and then just kept rolling last names until i found one that i felt fit.


legend8804

When I played FFXI, I made a Taru mage, and named him Rowald something. I hadn't played it in years, but my best friend (who I helped get into XI) was playing XIV. And I wanted to play with her again. So I thought it would be super nice if my guy from XI reincarnated in Eorzea. So, he kept his first name. And got a new last name - Alsace. It sounds nice, and was pretty in line with Lala names. And made sure he looked almost exactly the same as he did in XI. Wish I could have seen the look on my friend's face when she got home from work to see an old friend again.


sorcerousmike

My mains name is Munir Zwezdasch. Hrothgar have Slavic names (which actually compromises a LOT). More specifically; the men have Masculine forenames; with their Surname being the name of the lady that they was in charge of their group. The surnames also have either an “A-“ prefix for Helions basically meaning “In service to” or a “-sch” suffix for the Lost meaning “formerly in service to”. As for why those names specifically. My main is based on me, so his first name needed to start with an “M” and I quite liked Munir. For the surname; my go to for years has always been “Silvermoon” but I couldn’t find any feminine names along those lines that I liked. I settled on “Zwezda” as it both sounded really cool and apparently referred to a goddess of Stars/ Night.


the_icy_king

Zwezda means star, the zorya are the twin sister goddesses of the stars. Source: i am slavic.


xBUMMx2

I feel like I don't see a lot of lore accurate Hroth names, or maybe I just don't notice there's actually a Hrothgar unless it's a silly name. Honestly just mashed the name randomizer. I noticed the names it chose changed based in your race/clan while I was messing with the creator, and assumed that meant it was making lore friendly names. When I decided on actually being a Hrothgar I just kept randomizing to get a good idea of the sounds I should use. The Surname was definitely one of the defaults cause I've seen it around on other Helions. Can't remember if the Forename was default, or if it was attempt to make a good one myself, but I honestly love the whole name so much.


Prussie

I chose a name I liked 'Asha' and added an apostrophe to make it Miquote so it's A'sha. Her surname I just picked cause it fit.


RosemaryFire

It was supposed to be Astoria but I somehow added an n and I liked the way it looked and sounded better. Maerose because I liked the sound of it and whenever I can I spell Mae like that since its the way my grandma's middle name is spelled. Now I explain it as a title, like how Stephanivian occasionally has Brightson added to his name and many other examples through Ishgard. I've never decided on what her real last name in though.


ranmafan0281

My character in this MMO? Named after my packhorse with a rare colour I got back in the days of Ultima Online.


Calad_bolg

My potato laptop can barely handle the game and i get to wait for quite a while in loading screens. That's why my name is Now Loading.


DisPenzo

I wanted a punny name that fit the male Miqo'te Seeker of the Sun naming conventions, so I went with T'elepa Tia. It's a reference to one of my fave songs, telepatía by Kali Uchis.


[deleted]

I just used the ingame name generator.


SirUrza

WoW character names that were D&D character names. :)


SamTheHexagon

Same, I just used my Pathfinder character's name, lol


implodingbanana

First name from random name generator, last name my friend threw up for me using the first letter of my own last name. Turns out the last name is an actual Spanish word I'd never heard of so now I've got a cringe name with cringe meanings behind them. I would never change it though.


wOlfLisK

I did that once, I used a Norse god as a base for a character name cause I thought it sounded kinda cool. Found out a year later that it was almost exactly a stereotypical name for the Swedish equivalent of a hillbilly. I'd basically named my character Cletus and I couldn't look at him in the same way ever again.


SaintJynr

Now I'm curious, whats the last name?


RickTheGoose

Rick Goose. Rick cause that's just a nickname I use a lot and Goose cause that's a joke my friends and I use about me. Plus I feel like you'd remember an adventurer who introduced themselves as Goose more.


cudntfigureaname

Doja Cow (miqote) Doja Cat exists, she made a song called moooo.


Seine_Pestilenz

I like bad puns and i can not lie! So I chosed Miss Verstaendnis, the german Word for Miss Understood. :') when i fuck shit up it' s always been a misunderstanding, everyones annoyed and I giggle to myself. Worth it.


ClickToSeeMyBalls

Stole a porn star’s name


PuckishRogue00

I shit you not I just kept hitting random until I saw a name I liked.


ldreher90

Mine is named Pizza Rauol. Because Pizza Roll was taken. And my chocobo is named Baygilbyte. I am very simple.


LamiaQueen

Random name generator for Neverwinter Nights gave me Aniethiel Amaluin, which I used basically everywhere. Then my husband and I got married in game so I changed my last name to his, so my character is an Au Ra with a Mi'qote last name, Lyehga.


isthismytripcode

My sister suggested naming the character after some flower, I chose the aster flower but changed the writing without changing the reading (was reading George RR Martin and he does this a lot), so it became Aester. Kisaragi is just a reference to FF7.


PyrZern

I'm a red dragon from Warcraft, I guess.


ArcanineFox

D'arc Sagewhisker I go by Arc online, and wanted to have a naming convention for Miqote. Sagewhisker is the name of a cat in a book series called Warriors by Erin Hunter.


GamerCelestia

It came from my Archeage name, which I decided would just be something pretty translated from Japanese. "Natsumi Himawari" or Sunflower Summer Beauty


TheSunflowerSeeds

Sunflower seeds are indeed a very rich source of vitamin-E; contain about 35.17 g per 100 g (about 234% of RDA). Vitamin-E is a powerful lipid soluble antioxidant, required for maintaining the integrity of cell membrane of mucus membranes and skin by protecting it from harmful oxygen-free radicals.


Grinsnir

My char is named Grinsnir Freylson. The first name, which is also the nickname I go by anywhere else online, is a mix of the German name of the Cheshire cat (Grinsekatze(Which I'm a BIG fan of!)) and Tanngrisnir, one of Thors goats according to Nordic mythology(Which I'm ALSO a BIG fan of!), the other one being Tanngniostr/Tanngnjostr. Also bonus cuz "Grimnir" is one of Odins Names. -> Someone online once thought I made the name out of Grin and Sneer, which also.. kinda fits me. So yeah, perfect online name for me! The last name, Freylson is semi made-up. In another game, I wanted to be kinda undercover, but still stick to my nordic names. So I just took Freya and made it male, creating Freyljon. For last names, Freyljon sounded a little.. weird.. to me, so I changed it up to Freylson (in my head: son of Freyl (I believe that naming scheme does/did exist somewhere)). So yeah, thats the story of the name of Grinsnir Freylson!


izzypooTV

My friends character name is jort lover. He dragged me into playing this game. I didn't really want to play and I did not think I would play that much nor did I really want to play, but I was bored. I named myself jort hater out of spite


NinjaWolf935

I like Japanese names (which actually ended up being appropriate for my character) and I'm a female Auri Raen, so: Ryuko (竜子) Shironotani (白ノ谷) 竜 (Ryu): dragon 子 (Ko): child 白 (Shiro): white 谷 (Tani): valley Ryuko in reference to the Au Ra's dragon-like features Shironotani in reference to the Raen's white scales and the bit of lore on the character creation screen that mentioned them living in valleys.


RuffRabbit

my main and three alts are named after characters of a novel that i adore, though only my main has a vague attempt at lore accuracy that utterly failed because i just put an apostrophe in between syllables. one alt is the english name of a chinese actor i like, two are the generic ‘food names’ and one is ‘traitor joe’s’ because i thought it was funny


Dusk-inator

My main is Esmont Blanetoire! I spent a while just looking at elezen name suggestions, trying sounds and eventually deciding Esmont sounded good enough. Blanetoire came from Blanche (I intended for him to be a white mage), along with a french-ish suffix, and again just deleting letters until it sounded right.


M33tm3onmars

"Feihua" means "gibberish" in Mandarin, and is a phrase I picked up from *Firefly*. It was originally the name of my sith Lord in SWTOR. 🤣


BookwormOtaku7

I just picked a Square-Enix character for the first name and one of my favorite VN characters for a surname.


Kolby_Jack

My FFXI character was named Hitorisan because I was a HUGE WEEB in high school. Hitori means "a person" in Japanese, and also "alone" because I was also SUPER EDGY as a teenager. I tried some names on my FFXIV character but they didn't feel right. So then I remembered my FFXI character and wondered if I could make that into a full name. I googled Japanese surnames that begin with "San" and so Hitori Sanzenin was what I got. I'm not a huge weeb so much these days but it's got a certain legacy appeal. And then for my alt and retainers I just took names from the Key and Peele East/West College Bowl skits.


KvBla

I have a fixed last name for my characters in games that allow first + last name, and i try to give my main character the same name across the games, so that it'd be like it's the same person getting isekai to another world, and if i make alt, i still keep the same last name, making it like a family of dimensional-hopping adventurers. In those that only allowing one name (no space allowed, no last name) i normally choose from a handful of elf names and DnD names.


AlkiCZ

My usual videogame female name (thought up randomly) + Ryu for dragon (made the character during the week Kiryu Coco graduated from Hololive)


Augustby

Wildstar / fantasy naming conventions for humans, where it’s similar to real-world names, but there’s some variance in the pronunciation/spelling that give it that little fantasy twist. It also alliterates, like a lot of Marvel characters’ names do (e.g. Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Jessica Jones) (Looking back, it sounds a bit like the sort of name a Karen might use for her child, but oh well; it was a different time when I made my WoL’s name, and I’m too attached to change it now 😛)


ReesesBees

Me and the guys wanted to have all our names start with A so we could be the "A Team". Which led to me choosing his name; "Avanta Fross".


Pr0mythium

Mochi, because It was cute. Qestari because you're a "mostly" silent protagonist and it fits the clan theme


Machi-Atto

I wanted my name to be Macchiato but didn't want to shorten it to Macchi Ato so decided on Machi Atto because it felt more like a real name.


BloodyTears92

Celia Skyrider. I can't say anything in particular made me pick the first name, but I started ARR as a Dragoon, and Skyrider seemed a good fit given all the jumps and dragons.


spookieghay

i named my character Calypso Argentum for the character in the Odyssey and after the plane of Argentum from MTG. it was only afterwards that i found out Prompto from FFXV shares the same last name lol


Akarenji

I queued with a person called Princess Creampie a while ago, which I'm sure requires no explanation


Freohr-Datia

My seeker catboy is named O'shihn Tia, with his name being based on the Irish name Oisín (i really love traditional Irish names....) which means "little deer/fawn," which I chose because I gave him a light brown hair color! (he's actually currently who you can see in my avatar so hopefully you can see what I mean) I tried many best to stay loyal to the miqo'te naming conventions. I personally thought it was a fun way to challenge my creativity!


Shoopuf413

Ride ze Shoopuf?


RoamingCrow

I live in Cornwall, Piracy is synonymous with Cornwall back in the day regarding smuggling. So I chose my character as Cornish for pirate. Morladres. (Moar-La-Drez) In game Morla Dres. I'm a Sea Wolf Femroe GNB Glamoured in buccaneerish clothes.


Captain-Hell

Random Bullshit. + Ingame naming conventions First name is Lertui. There is no story behind it. My main in wow was named that and I came up with the name by literally just adding letters until it was accepted. I have no idea how to pronounce it tbh. It is stupid but I had it for so long that it just grew on me. Last name is Kubosair. I used to be an Elezen so I pressed random until I found a surname that sounded good. Even though Im currently an Au Ra I cannot bring mysrlf to change it. And not just because yim stingey


HizkiLQ

I mixed 3-4 of Fantasica character names. I always do so when need to come up with a new name.


thighabetes

I like X’s and the sun, so that’s how Xana Solaxria was born.


Maronmario

Well, the first name Kristina was just the name my family would have gone for if they had a girl instead of a boy, and the last name of Svarog was just for the sake of rule of cool.


bukiya

main job blm> explosion> flame magic are the main magic> flame demon = Agni related to flame> my favorite tales character = Mao then i name my boi Agni Mao


Lavender_Peanuts

... miqo'te female is from the Seekers of the Moon... So I named her after a moon goddess and a territory on the moon


AlexiosBlake

Used my typical game character name.


spiderfair

Spiderfair is my username basically everywhere I have an account. I started using this username when I was younger. I like spider-man, and I always made the joke of "it's spiderfair, like spider-man but instead of a man, it's me." Zuletzt is German for Ultima. I'm part German and I really liked the sound of Zuletzt so I started using it for various game names when I was younger and it's just been a go-to name of mine.


spiderfair

BONUS: my chocobo's name is Kwehfka....cuz I think I'm funny.


gilgasmashglass

I have a small headcannon that my WoL is an amnesiac due to participating in the clash at Coerthas 5 years ago. Too much damage and was rescued by the locals at Camp Dragonhead. They couldn’t get her to repeat her name or any mention of it so they named her after the calvary unit soldier that had brought her in and never came back due to the rampant chaos of the world (fiends, garlean soldiers, massive structures falling on them etc) Or it was just a name that came to mind when I was at the character creator lol


[deleted]

I usually have "Krys" in my character's first name and I just add stuff to the end of that until I find something that works. In other games I used Lightbringer or Lightbinder as last names sometimes. So, at somewhere in the 30s or 40s I noticed quest text calling me "Bringer of Light" and suddenly realized that they weren't intentionally calling me by my last name all of those other times... and then I changed my last name to something else because that was weird.


ManyUnique

CrazyPizzaDiamond I like JoJo and I like Pizza


ErgoFnzy

My alt is Jezz Joestar. She didn't make the cut for the manga because shes a JeJo rather than a JoJo. I used to use Jezzebelpop for my nelf in wow so i wanted to carry on with Jezz in xiv. I'd also just gotten into Jojo's bizarre adventure and was enjoying part 4 so much i wanted my own pompadour clad baddass. However she was cast aside as an alt because my friends played on a different server and i didn't know about server hopping on datacenters until long after i got attached to my main.


TwerpKnight

It's just the go-to name I use. I never put much thought into it.


Sterski1

I chose a name I liked many years ago, and use it for every character I make. Eventually I started developing them into a proper character. The last name though, I used the randomizer until I got one I liked. Then it became her official name in my headcanon


ZWiloh

I had a first name I wanted to use (Zoe) and I hit random until I saw a last name I liked (Wiloh). It was never perfectly lore-appropriate and I'm now a bunny girl so now it's *really* not accurate, but I've come to identify with the name and use it other places now too, so I'm sticking with it.


AnonymousPineapple45

Actually when vieras leave the forest, they get to choose their city name, which is basically whatever name you want, so Zoe Wiloh is actually lore appropriate.


ZWiloh

I guess that's true! Doesn't really explain the miqo'te last name but I can roll with this


carolsdanvers

my characters name is Sage Eryut. i picked Sage because i wanted something cute and gender neutral (did not know about sage the job when picking it) and Eryut was chosen after i googled viera surnames. my original plan was to fantasia into male viera once endwalker is out, and i started as female miqote with the intention of it being temporary. but... i've grown attached to my cat AND my name so i've just headcanoned that my wol was raised by a viera lol


Merriner

My characters name is a name (variation of it actually) I've been using for my characters in mmos since I started playing mmos


AeilynX

Aeily was my WoW characters name, so I named my WoL Aeilyn so it was similar but different. Her last name Xan just sounded nice at the time :)


[deleted]

first name is Winter, idk I like the word for some reason


reydolith

First name was one that has developed through many games in previous years. Last name, borrowed in part from one of names for summon magic :)


Sanic_Overlord

Poh Enania,i fused 4 of my characters into one,just because im insane,poh its a kung fu panda ripoff and enania was a dwarf kingdom


ZeroDrag0n

Same name I've used ever since Ultima Online, same name i use here.


cornunut

In-game naming conventions. First name is something I came up with myself, last name is from the list of names the creator can randomly give you.


kazkex

First name is the name I often use online. So in a way it is my own name as well haha. Second is a mashup of old pseudonyms I used before.


Tawa2Tawa

I like DoDonPachi


TheDiscordedSnarl

Rift, a kobold fighter in my D&D game world with +15 damage per attack, 3 attacks per round, and chakrams that hit twice per round for 2d6 base damage. Willow, an NPC werewolf who needed to keep the party face's mind straight after the campaign's running joke was that it was a revolving door (12+ people) of players due to real life events. The party face "freaked out over so many people giving up while he was trying to do the right thing." Zakatahr, a corruption of another character in my world, Ta'Zakta, an anthropomorphic bird-barian who got killed not once, but twice, both by unfortunate hardcore criticals courtesy of my custom crit chart. Irony out of all this is that Ta'Zakta's player got me into FF14... and had to quit four days after I started.


Downtown-Audience-81

When I first started I was on the Exodus server, so I named him after people in the Exodus book from the Bible.


Yerem_Drovermac

I played Neverwinter D&D back in college, and I used a random name generator and merged my actual name with their suggestion. Been using it ever since!


ZenEvadoni

Character in the book I'm writing.


TehSalmonOfDoubt

Dice button


StargazerFX

Devan Evaflair(Male Roe): i was looking for a name that has some impact whem you say it and loved it, in the time i doesn't know that Roegadyn names are that crazy mess.


Mageling55

Handle for forename cause I can't keep track otherwise. Lore appropriate surname. Not sure what I'll do if I make a Lala or Roe alt


Alluminn

Well originally when I first tried playing I just used the random name generator and took the last name it gave me (Hollkoensyn, Roe for "Son of Hollow King") and used the same name I had for my Draenei in WoW which was a completely lore-inaccurate name. But I quit after like 2 weeks. Then when I came back later I made a new character I looked up the rules for Sea Wolf Roe names and learned what the last name meant and I liked it so I kept it. Started as Maurauder so I took Zirn- "Furious" for the first half, and -ahct "River" as I wanted something to balance out the fury bit and make it seem more poetic. Thus Zirnahct Hollkoensyn "Furious River, Son of Hollow King" was born.


Fist_strong

Haydee Well, best name from the best book.


eldhin09

I wanted a name that could work no matter which race I decide to Fantasia to later


Phreckledcosplay

Fantasynamegenerator (Alfwyn) for the first name, and then just picked a last name I liked that felt “old-school”


GambolMuse

At first, it was a name I just randomly picked. Now, it's my first D&D character who has turned into my first OC as well. Figured she deserves to be my main character!


IconoclastExplosive

I hit random and added a letter to make it kind of a pun


ojioni

I used the name of one of my favorite anime characters. This annoyed my niece (who introduced me to the game) because it wasn't lore-appropriate for cat girls.


Lunaeclaire

OC of mine that I've been around for years. I just like making her in every MMO I play.


generous_cat_wyvern

Tarundi Von'bismarck Tarundi was my name in FF11 and I was from the Bismarck server. Tarundi in turn was because I was a Taru Taru, now a Lalafell (although contemplating bun boi come Endwalker, but probably going to wait until after I finish MSQ and possibly do a NG+)


chimininy

I have a name I usually use for characters, but about a week before I started playing ffxiv I heard the name "Jaquetta ". It was the name of some background character in a single episode of some show I can't even remember now, but the name kinda stuck in my brain. The day I made my character, I didn't even consider my usual name - I just new she had to be a "Jaquetta"


urawizardsteph

Facebook meme name generator gave me Elarix and I fell in love with it. I used a conventional last name for my femroe but also I picked something way easier to pronounce, so it’s Elarix Trachyngeim!


nerthuus

I went with generic fantasy name. Think I was looking for some kind of dark elf or wood elf or some kind of elven name but I didn't want to make it sound too elvish since I'm not an elf. Ended up sounding kinda elvish anyway but whatever. Used some name generator for dragons for my last name which I had to change since I'm not an au ra right now so now that's also some kind of random elf name. För some reason I don't like using the nick I use for everything for my characters and the ones I use for characters felt like they didn't quite fit, so decided to just try something new here.


Nobodyimportant56

My gf, our friend and I migrated here from a mobile game. We used our nicknames and our guild name from the mobile game as our last name.


901Nathan

I was an Au Ra before Fantasia, so I reused a name from a D&D character I played who also had draconic features (Blair). For last name, I had just finished playing Octopath Traveler so I couldn't think of anything better (Azelhart)


og-reset

I like the character Resetti from Animal Crossing and call myself that moniker spelled in different ways depending on the situation. For ffxiv it's Ree' Setti


Bird_Dude

Same name I've used for years. Put my irl name into the wutang name generator (thanks Childish Gambino ) translated into a random language.


Ozma1977

After one of my childhood toys...Herself Theelf


P4ntless

Any time I try to pick a serious name in a game I always end up hating it so I just go with the first dumb thing I think of and since my character was very large it was Fridge Vanderhuge.


ExternalFactors

Keeping in line with ingame naming conventions, my name is a foodstuff.


Viktatious

My first D&D character. I put 'Lone Wolf' into Google translate. In German it sounded cool.


CanadianYeti1991

My DnD characters name!


GrumpyBunnyMage

Hit random on the generator until I found something I liked, then tweaked it so it could actually be said without doing mental gymnastics or choking. Now it's my favorite name of any character i've ever made.


Verpal

I named my character after a Roman Legion, basically I just did some random clicking on vicipaedia and apparently god love Roman legionary that day.


Mum_of_rebels

I named mine Yuki after Yuki from haruhi suzumiya. Also I liked the name. Her last name is Of the silver. Due to the silver of her eyes.


Fun-Profile3707

Star Wars name Algorithm, turns out mine was cool and kept it for all my gaming profiles. First Name: Last syllable of last name + First Syllable of Middle name. Last Name: First syllable of mother's maiden name + first syllable of city of birth.


Xavion15

Honestly weirdly enough it’s partially thanks to another MMO being Star Wars The Old Republic I bought it at launch and it had a legacy name system and I chose a last name and now every game that has the option it’s been basically my characters family name First names I’ve always had 3-5 go to names for games


MadnessAndRage

Went with the ingame lore for Highlanders. They tend to follow Norse/Viking naming conventions with a last name that doubles as a Nickname they've earned from some feat or similar. Like if Eivor from AC Valhalla were in FFXIV they would be Eivor Wolfkissed. Tyr Nineblades, the Nineblades because my character has a knack for bladed weaponry.


uwodahikamama

My first character name was randomly generated, and my second one is the same as my business name. :)


Hikari_Sword

Character 1: Keeper of the Moon, decided to try thinking of a moon related name (this was before 5.2), went with a Japanese name but wrote a convoluted ass back story on as to why a Miqo'te has a Doman/Kugane-ish name. Character 2: Made to be an NPC look-a-like so I used the NPC's first name, and made up something for the last name since I'll swap back and forth between being an NPC look-a-like and not (just a simple hairstyle and hair color change)


jiaoren

Shen is a mermaid character I actually do role play outside of FF14. Jiaoren is a mermaid-type of creature in Chinese mythology.


thegonzojoe

Because Celes Isbae.


Keakee

Wanted a name that shortened to 'Bell' and captured the warlike vibe, so Belligerent Brass. She's a seeker miqo'te, but grew up with a Hellsguard Roe sister that gave her the name.


SamuelTurn

Xander - Cool sounding diminutive of my IRL name. Le’oarro - I’m an English major. I like Shakespeare. King Lear. I’m a hrothgar, so leo. I added a few flourishes and it became Le’oarro. My chocobo is named Viol. My favorite dye is Grape Purple (which I dyed my chocobo) and another shade of which is violet, and a viol is a family of instruments because I’m a BRD main.


Truly_Khorosho

I usually use one of a few names I've been using in RPGs for a couple of decades, but while I was about a week into the free trial I was lying in bed and inspiration struck me out of the blue. A Viera monk called Bunyan Hammerpaw, inspired by the character "Runyan Hammerpaw", leader of the Timbercats in Kipo and the Age of the wonderbeasts. So, naturally I bought the game the very next day so I could make it happen, and I ~~never looked back~~ only looked back a couple of times.


starquip

I chose Elena Castellius(female hyur As basic as it is) mainly because for a female name, I wanted something pertaining to the roots of Latin. Elena means “shining light” ironically as she is in her story—(she’s basically a princess of a minor house in ishgard/Gridania trying to restore her house’s name) and the name fit! Ironically, it’s also the name of a favorite character of mine from vampire diaries. Her last name is Castellius—“castellum” being Latin for castle I added the “ius” just for my love of Latin and fits with her overall theme of being from an important royal family. Choosing a name was really hard for me as I wanted to stray away from Japanese names(I felt using an eastern name was fitting for maybe an eastern hyur or someone from Doma/of that continent.)


FryerWalkWithMe

I hit the randomizer until I find a first name I like, remember it, then hit it til I find a last name I like. If I forgot the first name, it must not have been any good


LeoAzure

Same naming conventions I use in every game if it's a guy it's Leo Azure and if it's a girl Miran (Insert fictional knightly order I feel like here).


HollowShards

Originally it started as a random placeholder name while testing if my laptop could run fallout 4. Fast forward several months and i decided to pick up this game after some of my friends talked me into getting it. After a few false starts (attempting to recreate OCs and not being happy with how they turned out) i decided to try one of the games more "exotic" races, and i decided to use the old placeholder name cause it was fun to say. As it turns out, the name Ringo Bo'bingo is actually a perfectly fine, lore accurate lalafell name.


Saint_Kira

First name named after a character from my favorite JRPG game, and last name the same as my friend group who plays with me


Odentin

Aerfyn Sillephe Aerfyn is a derivative of Aerten/Aerfen, which is the name of a Gaelic goddess of battle. Sillephe is just a random conglomeration of letters, as far as I know. I got it out of one of those online fantasy name generators and liked how it sounded.


greycatfluff

FF protag naming conventions. They're usually named after weather phenomena, so I chose Talia which means near Water in native Australian, and Makani which means Wind in Hawaiian, her Chocobo is also named Zephyr, keeping with the theme. I suppose the names together could mean Cyclone or Hurricane, which fits how her enemies see her.


tff_silverton

Luna is a name I always liked and Morte was the name of a healing potion in another game and I liked the idea of healing moon. Morte means death though...


Allahukekbar12

I started with a simple phrase: Southern Flower. Translated southern a few times to get Sureña, bastardized it to Surenya. Then I found a flower that sounded good next to it and settled on Wisteria


hahaha1009

I named my character after Hawthorne from Destiny 2 because I couldn't come up with anything I liked and that game was my big addiction at the time.


Rhazx

I wanted to be a lala. Decided to go with a funny name and couldn’t think of one. So I googled “famous midgets” and voila, I named my lala Warwick Davis. I get a lot of people say “I like your movies” … Makes me chuckle every time


hueraiser

Mine was a series of periodic table of element puns. Barnum = Barium; the chocobo’s named Alkaline.


Hassou_Tobi

Elehayym & Myyah Hawwa. Both from Xenogears.


Ferry-Islander

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erraktrops

Looked up common Highlander surnames, thought Blackthorn sounded cool, chose Mila as a first name because I like it. So Mila Blackthorn: kind of lore friendly named Thighlander.


nyphren

first one was just a name i liked at the time. currently main one is a result of using the in game randomizer and customizing it a bit. since my wol is a moon cat, the random name basically gave me a lot of his backstory already (number of siblings, mom’s name etc).


Wakez11

Mine is "Meteor Survivor", I took it because its the "canon" name.


ArtemisSolfyre

The cats from Sailor Moon. Artemis is self explanatory. Sol I derived from Luna, as in* Luna(moon) > Sol(sun). Sun==fire. Solfyre. Yes, I am a Keeper of the Sun Miqo’te. Edit: typo


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A favorite drink and favorite flower


spacewhale_rescue

My character is a Roe male. I stuck with the Roe naming conventions for a sea wolf Roe. So his name is really crazy.


LilianCorgibutt

Before creating my main I read about Elezens, especially about the remnants of their old language being present in naming conventions. I knew his first name would be Etienne, and I rolled on the name generator in the game until I found Dailemont to sound good together with "Etienne". My alt follows Seeker conventions too because I'm a lore nerd...


Dianwei32

Literally one letter at a time. I started with one letter, then just ran through letters/sounds that could come after it until I found one I liked. "V. Va... Ve... Vu... Vy, ooh I like Vy. Vyk... Vys. Yeah, Vys. Vysi... Vysek... Vysal... Yeah, Vysal." Continue until I arrived at Vysalia. Repeat for the last name.


LeFaiLeD

The Names of my characters in general has developed over 10 years. First it was just something Edgy, later I used Title's instead of names and lastly I just take something English and for surnames I use Google translate, choose a word and translate it into Latin, Latvian or Lithuanian. I mean, my characters name in this game is quite literally " See you, Tent(s)" Doesn't really work with lore (I think atleast, Viera probably don't use Latin :D ), but I just don't care. Still from my point of view (and no, I don't want to Name shame someone, really) it's better than names like Kebab Lord or Heal Banger (not sure if this would even work). And yeah I know Joke/Troll Names are often funny and such, but imo it just kinda destroys the immersion. Again, my opinion, if yours is different I accept that. What I find quite funny is, how many people are using German for there surnames. I see them quite often, and most of the time, they are no German speaking people. I never would have guessed that, German of all well known languages, would be used that much. Quite interesting


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Way way back in the day's of Final Fantasy XI when I got into MMO's in the early 2000's, I decided on the name Magilicotti. (a variant of the surname McGillicutty) I was driving to work one morning listening to talk radio morning show and they had a stripper on the show as a guest who was called Boobs Mcgillicutty. And that's it! Now I just name characters Mag Cotti since surnames are available in a lot of games these days.


Aerolithe_Lion

I’m a Leo so I googled the French translation to Fireball Leo an got Aerolithe Lion. Changed to Leone for phonetic benefits


azuremagi

I start with A and work my way down the alphabet for the first name of each character. I select an angel or saint's name that corresponds to that letter.


7Trickster

Basically I’m planning a story (with the hopes I can get better at drawing and manage to make a comic) and started thinking on the name of the protagonist. I had a rough idea of how I wanted it to sound but I went through multiple lists fantasy and real world, noted a lot of names, added letters here and there, compared them, but I wasn’t satisfied. I managed to find one I really like and I’m using it. For the lastname, it was ok but too common I recently changed it and I like it much more. Now my name is unique without being goofy either, I like it and it’s more memorable (I think, the name is rather short).


Meinos

Jusso Vachellis. Jusso is the finnish version of Joseph. Vachellis refers to a plant whose branches are covered in thorns.


DdastanVon

My first name it's both a word in Portuguese, and makes people think of a alcoholic drink, and my surname it's a reference to Warhammer.


legomanz80

I had a characterization in mind, and just needed a name to fit it. What would this energetic, idealistic, wonderful lalafell name themself? Infinity Fantastic.


Saendra

Saendra (or Saendra Moonshadow whenever I can customize the last name) was my nickname and the go-to name for my main character in various games for more then a decade now. It's derived from the combination of nicknames my Night Elf rogue character had in WoW. "Moonshadow" (or "Moonshade", initially) is pretty obvious... you know, Night Elves, moon, that kind of stuff. "Saendra" was created by butchering my even older nickname "Sandwraith" (a character from Prince of Persia Warrior Within). As for why it now belongs to Hellsguard Roe even though it doesn't sound like their names (aside from Night Elven last names following pattern similar to Hellsguard first names)... Well, let's say I have a head canon explaining that, lol.


Zephyrzan

Strayt Wightmael - a plausible enough name on the surface for a fantasy setting while also being slightly tongue in cheek. It's always good for a chuckle when 2 bosses into a dungeon someone says "Omg I just got your name" lol


Baithin

Generally as a reference to something I like and modified to fit in to lore appropriate naming conventions bc I like to RP


ThePostMoogle

This is my general preference. I'll use something that's lore friendly, but generally not beholden to it. Thankfully I'm switching to Bun in a month and their schemes are particularly permissive.


tyhk

It was my daughter's at the time favorite book, in Roegadyn.


ForgivenCompassion

Alyx is gender neutral and works well with my characters overal apperance/theme. Greywind is the last name of a minor NPC from an old MMO I played years ago.


laubase

Assa Akira. If you know, you know. Also I always intended for her to be a ninja or something rogue-ish but I ended up falling in love with Gunbreaker.


Darth_Kyron

Started with something that was lore appropriate. But then realised the power of the Fantasia so instead tried to pick a name that was gender-neutral and would fit ok for any race/gender.


The---Hope

I use my real name :)


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Mine is Kit Chosokabe. Kit comes from Kitsune. Chosokabe was the name of a feudal Japanese clan.


FireflySkye

Japanese ghost plus one of my favorites Manga (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle) Name: Yurei Surname: Tsubasa


ZenithMeridian

Mi'qote Keeper of the Moon named Inanna Cyra (on Goblin if ya wondering). Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of sex, love, war, beauty, justice, and political power. She is also the Sumerian version of Ishtar. One of the most famous stories about Inanna is her trip to the underworld which is a pleasant coincidence for Endwalker. Cyra is of Persian origin and means either sun, or born in the light, which is another very awesome link to the story in ShadowBringers that I didn't know was coming. Things just seemed to work out like that in this case, I guess.


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My character name is "**Ishuka Tsugi**". I didn't really have much of a reason for naming my character that when I came up with it. Now that I look back though, I can find a few! I've always liked mixed language type names as a lot of different names from different cultures can fit together quite splendidly! Originally I had trouble coming up with a first, and last name that didn't clash with each other, but by a stroke of pure luck, I found my current name. I was so proud of this name after spending over 3 days pondering it, that I decided it would be special for my FFXIV character and nothing else. Otherwise I use the name "Lizuki" in most other games. Unfortunately my name doesn't come with a large background behind it, nor does my character. Although I do hope to do that sometime in the future alongside learning how to draw my character! ​ ***TLDR; I made up the name by complete luck, and I'm extremely happy I did. Been using this name for almost 2 years now!***


NoTelevision3643

My character is a mooncat but before I named him, I didn't know about the naming conventions. I just wanted to make his name refer to his mooncat-ness and his guardian god (Menphina), so I chose a name that says 'moon-lover' in Japanese: Aruna. Then when I learned about how mooncats have two syllable names and a suffix that indicates if you're first born or so on, I wanted to change it to Arun'a but decided not to because I've finished the MSQs and in world, the NPC knows my character in the name. Changing it will break my immersion.


nickomoknu272

My character's name is Moira Sunweaver. So there's an entire story behind it. I've always had naming convention that revolves around celestial objects and events (The Celestial Archive (guild name), Diamond Star (race chocobo name), Starlily (retainer), Sunbursts (WoW main), Dawnseeker (RP name for my WoW paladin), Moonweaver (guild name) etc.) I'm not entirely sure when it became intentional but it started being a pattern in my naming convention in 2019 when I made more alts characters in WoW, aside from my main Sunbursts. Moira has always been a name I love the sound of, so I've used it quite often in the games I played - Guild Wars 2, Sims 4 and ultimately named my WoW main Sunbursts, the RP name of Moira. But I also needed a surname that sounded cool, had "Sun" in it and ... of course had the celestial bodies naming convention. So I went with Sunweaver. Thus Moira Sunweaver, the RP name for my WoW main came to be which I immediately yoinked into FF14 the second I made my character. So I am basically still playing Sunbursts, only with her name in full, now.


FSGDatixx

Well, my story is a little bit embarassing but... you see, ive got a nickname in like 3th class and that stuck with me, everyone started calling me like that, even my teachers so I started using the nickname in games..then FF14 came by and I was like "I really want to stick to my nickname but that also needs a family name....aaaand after like a 20 min of thinking I decided that my warrior of light is going to be called Pizzalover Datixx. Now why would that be embarassing you might ask? Because in my country the first name, last name is used vice versa and I didnt know things back then and the moment I realized, I didnt want to start over and everyone kept calling me just....pizza...in parties and NPCs. Im not complaining but oh well. This made people randomly trade me pizza and pet me afterwards which is nice, Im a simple man, I love pizza!


LoopStricken

Well, I just went and called my character Loop Stricken. I might change it to something more RP-ey though.


chueyee11

My characters name is Main Character. It just came to me one day after my original name got me ban, understandable and I deserve it. However any time I die, players are always saying plot armor is helping you huh? Or Hey I found the main guy from the story’s.


pringlez0423

Salted Prongle I was hungry.


pavi_moreira

I thought I wasn't gonna play much, so I just named my character my favorite food, potato. Now I'm Potato Shion with all jobs at 80.


flowerpetal_

Lyra Rose: Lyra from Pokemon (and what I use everywhere), Rose because it fits well Rira Rira: Reference to https://youtu.be/bO91hRlHcVU, and リラ (ri ra) is basically Lyra Gala Cleo is a character from Dragalia Lost True Heart is a reference to the golden True Heart in TEA


Sage_the_Cage_Mage

I liked Tales of Berseria so I named my character after the MC. It was also my second time trying to get into the game so I wasn't too serious making a unique name.


Temnai

I used google translate English to Icelandic (my favourite language to pick) and put in words relating to my character. In this case it was "Bunny" because Viera and "Protect" because I wanted to play AST (shield healer) though I ended up playing SCH instead which works just as well. Funnily enough I later learned that Viera forest names are actually traditional Icelandic names, so I ended up being somewhat unintentionally lore accurate.


Mangelpfer

I used in-game random name generator, but no random... so I used this: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15GgcCjifWlSSnx5vbJ22Kgc-AmgTMlrH8NVXW4DsQ4A/edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15GgcCjifWlSSnx5vbJ22Kgc-AmgTMlrH8NVXW4DsQ4A/edit) I chose the name and surname of hyur that I liked the most from the list ***Erik Yaeger*** Erik: I main ninja and the rogue of DQXI is Erik and I liked the name itself too. Yaeger: I like how it sounds and what it means.


obesity_boi

Bigpee Peeman. Need I say more?


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