I am completely stuck on my characters name. I can’t even name the dog in my story until I figure out my main characters name. I’m hoping once I get my MC named, then I can figure everyone else’s name. Lol. So, I’m hoping someone might be able to provide feedback and help me out.
She’s a female, in her 30’s. Smart, feisty, hardworking. She’s a museum curator and private art collector. She has green eyes, I haven’t decided on the hair color yet. She’s the boss-lady in the story. At nights she goes home and sleuths missing person cases.
She comes from a large family, has a twin brother, and two other siblings, a nephew that keeps running away to her house because he says that she’s the only normal one in the family. Her parents were disappointed that she chose art over other majors, but she still talks to them, it’s just tense.
She’s single, no kids. I haven’t decided if I’ll have her have a love interest or not later on in the story. I quite like that she’s single.
I don’t have the story set in the modern day world. There’s no USA, or UK, [name_f]Russia[/name_f], but it’s not alien or fantasy either. She does live under a ruling royal family/king. Technology is about what we have now in the world.
Here are the names that I’ve been thinking about. I want something professional and not cutesy. Nothing that is super common (Charlotte, Elizabeth). I love those names but they’re very common especially in stories. Nothing that sounds made up. Nicknames, traditional or not are welcome too. I have toyed with the idea of having her hate her first name and going by her middle name, or that she changed her name once she was old enough because of the tension in her family. This is putting some of myself and my sister in the story as we both did/do this. Lol.
- [name_f]Fallon[/name_f] (Fae as a nickname. [name_f]Fallon[/name_f] is my weak spot mainly because I love the name Fae.)
- [name_f]Helena[/name_f] (again HUGE weakness)
- [name_f]Lenora[/name_f] (Like how it sounds, nickname [name_f]Leni[/name_f] or [name_f]Nora[/name_f]. I also like a similar of Liora)
- [name_f]Avalon[/name_f] (Lonnie as a nickname, I’m a sucker for male/neutral nick names on females.)
- [name_f]Orlena[/name_f] (I was going through my family tree and saw this name. I had never heard of it before. It’s a different O name (Odette, Ottillie, Odessa). However I’m not sure about the OR sound at the beginning.
- Jovia (Again, on my family tree. I liked it but unsure.)
- [name_f]Tamsin[/name_f] (It means twin. I could name her twin [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] and then she goes by a middle name because of this)
- [name_f]Elodie[/name_f] (a name I’ve loved since a kid and was reserving for my future child until the explosion of EL names for girls)
- [name_f]Lavina[/name_f] (Love but not sold.)
- [name_f]Inara[/name_f] (I love [name_f]Firefly[/name_f] lol but too much of a connection to it?)
Thanks for any help anyone could give me! You can also suggest other names too that you think would fit.