What are the Coolest Character Names You've Created?

[name_m]Just[/name_m] that! To all the Writerberries~ which character names have you created that you absolutely adore? As many as you like, and they can be from various stories! Mine are~

[name_f]Seraphina[/name_f] Northbell
[name_u]Tennessee[/name_u] Wentworth
[name_f]Zillah[/name_f] [name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m]
[name_f]Kess[/name_f] Road
& [name_f]Isla[/name_f] [name_f]Moon[/name_f]

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‘Cool’ may be debatable, but here’s some of my favourites:

The [name_u]Story[/name_u] about The [name_u]Magic[/name_u] Library (working title):

Twins [name_m]Cassian[/name_m] ‘Cas’ and [name_u]Romilly[/name_u] ‘Romy’ [name_f]Morven[/name_f] (who have yet to meet each other, technically… but that’s beside the point.)

A Rational Magic/The Starfall Coven/???:

The surname of our main protagonists — Ferrin — was an accident, but it’s unintentionally awesome because of the sheer amount of issues their family’s knowledge (and actual presence in the fairy world when it comes to [name_f]Anya[/name_f], [name_f]Lani[/name_f] and earlier Eden) of Azaevelum causes for said fairies. It’s the tenuous link between ferrous and Ferrin, all things considered, but I still think it’s pretty great.

Their fairy friend is [name_u]Katriel[/name_u] ‘Kat’ [name_m]Wystan[/name_m].

Tales of Wildridge Manor (working series title):

[name_u]Rue[/name_u] Arison as the ‘is he really a bad guy or is he really good underneath it all’ antagonist from book one. I just… like this.

That past idea about a secret garden of some kind:

[name_f]Octavia[/name_f] [name_f]Rose[/name_f] [name_u]Briar[/name_u] [name_u]Carlyle[/name_u]. The surname was another accident, it meaning ‘from the walled city’ and the idea was that she’d never left the grounds of her house before the plot got started.

Oh, yeah, I was playing about a bit and this one doesn’t have a story but [name_f]Elvia[/name_f] [name_u]Rosen[/name_u] [name_f]Lore[/name_f] is such a protagonist name to me. It just is.

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In a longer story three characters are basically representative of extreme good/light and extreme bad/dark and the neutral one who keeps balance, and they all have devil names (don’t ask. they are humans.) Good= [name_u]Diablo[/name_u] nn [name_f]Dee[/name_f], Bad= Apollyon nn [name_m]Paul[/name_m], Neutral= [name_m]Lucifer[/name_m] nn [name_u]Luce[/name_u]

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One of my favorites is [name_u]Florence[/name_u] [name_u]Marion[/name_u] “Flora” Dahlrymple! I haven’t written her in a while, but I totally adore her name. Her best friend is called [name_u]Killian[/name_u] Ketteridge, which I also really love. And her sisters [name_f]Alice[/name_f] [name_f]Imogen[/name_f] and [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] [name_f]Louisa[/name_f] “Pearl” are some other faves! I love those stories… I should get back to writing more of them. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Some more I like that I remember are…
[name_f]Felicity[/name_f] [name_f]Mila[/name_f] “Flick” [name_m]Bishop[/name_m]
Sarah-Margaret (no MN or LN yet—open to suggestions :wink:)
[name_f]Opal[/name_f] [name_f]Aveline[/name_f] Levski-Quaye
[name_f]Ottilie[/name_f] [name_f]Luella[/name_f] Rinecorn
[name_f]Frances[/name_f] [name_f]Jane[/name_f] “Frankie” Hessel
[name_f]Mae[/name_f] [name_f]Annelise[/name_f] “Maeby” Philipp-Glover
[name_u]June[/name_u] [name_f]Joy[/name_f] [name_u]Rhett[/name_u] (double barrel FN, no MN)
Mollyann [name_m]Ferguson[/name_m] “Bees” (NN from her little brother)
[name_f]Zinnia[/name_f] [name_u]June[/name_u] “Zizi” [name_m]Muir[/name_m] // alt name [name_f]Wisteria[/name_f] [name_u]June[/name_u] “Wisty” [name_m]Muir[/name_m] // alt name [name_u]Augustine[/name_u] [name_u]June[/name_u] “Gussie” [name_m]Muir[/name_m]
[name_m]Timothée[/name_m] Voskoboynikov (French-Russian best friend of [name_f]Zinnia[/name_f], the MC, whose siblings are named [name_m]Frédéric[/name_m], [name_f]Isaline[/name_f], and Matthieu)
Primrose-Evangeline “Prim” and Kitsey (two best friends, both girls; didn’t write their story enough to find MNs or LNs for them)
[name_f]Daniela[/name_f] [name_f]Charity[/name_f] Xobbjats (this was a creative one :laughing: LN is pronounced “ZOB-jats)

Many of my characters are girls, particularly my MCs. Many of my secondary characters are their sisters. This is all mostly because I am a girl with a sister myself! “Write what you know,” right? :wink: Plus, girls’ names have historically been a lot more intriguing to me than boys’ names! Though, im coming ‘round on so many boys’ names with every additional day I spend perusing Nameberry!

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I thought I was the only one! Lol, this was oddly helpful! Beautiful names, too! :heart_eyes:

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Yeah same, the only story with a male MC has another who’s female xD also I almost judged Xobbjats and then I remembered Staeriisha Szeyia and her friends Tellav Thloa, Anaema Talleiroei, and Taechkeeap xD

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this is definitely not from a fan fiction but i love the name egan meaning ‘little fire’ for my “antagonist”. obviously it’s not a combo, but his family’s main power is fire and he’s the youngest of the siblings!

his brothers (already created in the original book universe) are eris and lucien + three more alive and two more deceased. their last name is vanserra!

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Sorry if this isn’t what you mean but I invented the name Iridessme for a character of mine and I like it a lot :face_with_peeking_eye:

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I love Iridessme!

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[name_f]Evangeline[/name_f] [name_u]Rue[/name_u] & [name_m]Castiel[/name_m] [name_u]Neo[/name_u] Echethier who are twins of fairy descendants, both have color changing hair and eyes, and they can change from light(normal) or dark forms

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from my current wip, i love a lot of the names! my favorites…

romulus mao “romy”
marvel quinby “mars” (g)
casiphia elway “cas”
hesperia eilidh fintan
safiyah rahman
bellona mao “noa”
mako agawa-endellion
rowan seo (b)


and from an old wip…

dianthe nerine
theodosius gallateos
melantha eurydice clio
nox aquila
nephele asteria
and singular names: sapphira, kore, augustin, evander, olympia “ollie”


i really want to write a character named calixta castle “cal”, but i haven’t gotten to it yet!

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I got a few that I just love, though not too sure why.

[name_m]Denton[/name_m] [name_u]York[/name_u] - [name_m]Just[/name_m] came up with this one on the spot, and it stuck forever.
[name_m]Farid[/name_m] [name_u]Amari[/name_u] [name_m]Astin[/name_m]- I’m obsessed with the name [name_m]Farid[/name_m], and I just love the full name I gave him. Though it is a bit odd, having an Arabic name and [name_f]English[/name_f] surname. I was just intrigued when I heard the actor [name_u]Sean[/name_u] Astin’s surname. Like seriously. Astin!!! I love it! So [name_m]Farid[/name_m] [name_u]Amari[/name_u] [name_m]Astin[/name_m] sounds a bit weird, but it’s one of those names you can’t change cause you’re so attached.
Agdavene Illoni- I have no clue of where this name came from. Her original name was supposed to be [name_f]Adeline[/name_f], and one morning I woke up, and said, “Agdavene” instead, and it just stuck.
[name_u]Jack[/name_u] Eland- This one sounded so amazingly British to me for some reason. I don’t know why, but I just love repeating this name over and over because it’s so catchy.
[name_m]Benedict[/name_m] [name_u]Bo[/name_u] ‘Ben B’- This one is entirely random. Loved [name_m]Benedict[/name_m], my best friend loved [name_u]Beau[/name_u], so I put them together and boom. [name_u]Love[/name_u] it. Nicknamed [name_m]Ben[/name_m] B 80% of the time.

Most of my characters are boys! I find it way easier coming up with boy names than girls.
Secondary characters are usually their best friend.
Xx

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Okay, back again. I spent way too long today trying to name a cat. Why was it so difficult? Because I wanted the name to be strange, but human enough to, uh, work on a human, because our cat is a shapeshifter. You know.

Originally, he was Mischief Inkblot ‘Inky’, but now he’s the considerably more human-suited [name_u]Valor[/name_u] [name_u]Poet[/name_u] ‘Val’ (blame other people in Wardwell House for the strange names, I guess). Our MC is [name_u]Rune[/name_u], so I think these two work pretty well together.

The other main characters…? Well, I haven’t named them yet. I have named two dragons, a minor sibling character for [name_u]Rune[/name_u], and the realm of the dead you can access via Rune’s bed (okay, it’s underneath his bed, but my point still stands) and that’s within barely 1150 words, somehow.

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I was actually just thinking about my weirdest character names, so. . . I’m not sure if these are cool, exactly, but they’re certainly strange.

The main characters in a story I’ve actually mentioned a lot around here, all of whom I invented when I was in elementary school (I really loved crazy names like this back then, to the point of giving myself the alias [name_f]Katarine[/name_f] because I thought [name_f]Kathryn[/name_f] was boring).
Staeriisha Azehlei Szeyia (star-EE-sha AAH-zeh-lay seh-YEE-ah)
Tellav Zellaho Thloa (TELL-ahv ZEL-ah-ho THLO-ah)
Anaema Talleiroei (ah-nah-EE-mah TAL-eh-roy)
Taechkeeap (taych-KEEP)

The main characters in something else, in descending order of weirdness (explanations below)
[name_f]Zinnia[/name_f] [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] [name_f]Penelope[/name_f] [name_f]Lizabeth[/name_f] [name_f]Grazia[/name_f] Badgerscythe
Ordinary Creampuff Cumbersome
Commercialbreak Whybert Trumpeting

Zinnia’s parents are named [name_f]Elanor[/name_f] and [name_m]Zorian[/name_m] Badgerscythe (some of my coolest names wasted on side characters), both of whom are notoriously indecisive. Ordinary was created by mad scientists named Dr. Cumber, Dr. Thimble, and Dr. Adaway, and his name is Dr. Cumber’s idea of a joke, coupled with Dr. Thimble’s favorite food of cream puffs. As for Whybert, the story goes that his parents were taking so long to decide on a name that eventually someone said, “Okay, the next thing you say is this kid’s name.” The dad, however, was watching TV and didn’t hear, so he complained, “Commercial break!”. The mom, realizing what had happened, said, “Why, Bert?” and that’s how we got that.

I also have a character named [name_f]Serenity[/name_f] Merrimon, but when she was little, her older sister said that since she wasn’t very serene, perhaps they should have called her Difficulty instead, which is how the nickname Ficu originated, which is what she’s called by everyone except her mother, who’s a stubborn holdout on Sere, and strangers who her mother’s talked to first. Anyway, Difficulty “Ficu” Merrimon. Hmm, who else? Oh, there’s [name_m]Aurelius[/name_m] Dormouse, which I like because then he can put up a sign that says “DORMOUSE. Odd jobs. They must specifically be odd: I will organize the boxes of forgotten love letters in your attic into the shape of the [name_f]Mona[/name_f] [name_u]Lisa[/name_u], I will thoroughly clean your dusty castle library so long as you’re alright with my reading the books, but I will not do anything so mundane as mow your lawn or deliver your newspaper. Email goldmouse.tealeaf for details.” Also, I can’t forget the time only a few days ago when I asked my friend for help naming a character. She said perhaps [name_u]Finn[/name_u], and I said I had thought of that, but I wanted a longer full name, at which point she seems to have suggested [name_u]Finnegan[/name_u], but I misheard her as Finniander, which I must say I like better than any other options.

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All of my names are clunky and old and i love them to pieces.

[name_u]Charlie[/name_u] darling
[name_u]Jack[/name_u] carlisle
[name_m]Wilbur[/name_m] [name_u]Montgomery[/name_u]

[name_f]Lulu[/name_f] [name_f]Clemency[/name_f]
Rosemaria pride
[name_f]Frances[/name_f] maylark
[name_f]Parnella[/name_f] Ashdown
Barnette Quick
[name_f]Camelia[/name_f] kingsley
[name_f]Gardenia[/name_f] wilde

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some of my faves I think are pretty cool

[name_u]Ivy[/name_u] [name_f]Athena[/name_f] [name_u]Moon[/name_u]
[name_f]Winifred[/name_f] Birdwhistle
[name_f]Tesni[/name_f] [name_f]Eluned[/name_f] [name_m]Teague[/name_m]
[name_f]Sashi[/name_f] [name_u]October[/name_u]
[name_f]Vera[/name_f] [name_f]Lively[/name_f]
[name_f]Xanthe[/name_f] [name_u]Foxglove[/name_u]
[name_u]Juno[/name_u] Paradis

[name_u]Virgil[/name_u] [name_m]Astrophel[/name_m] Blackthorn
[name_u]Merlin[/name_u] [name_u]Taliesin[/name_u] [name_m]Teague[/name_m]
[name_m]Ulysses[/name_m] Grimm
[name_u]Thaddeus[/name_u] [name_u]Wise[/name_u]
[name_u]Orion[/name_u] [name_m]Zakari[/name_m]

triplets [name_m]Xavier[/name_m], [name_u]Valentine[/name_u], and [name_f]Callista[/name_f] [name_f]Bloom[/name_f]

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[name_f]Wrenley[/name_f] [name_u]Parker[/name_u] (cliché on purpose)
[name_f]Scarlett[/name_f] [name_m]Hansen[/name_m] (née Rosenthal)
[name_u]Jay[/name_u] [name_m]Patterson[/name_m] (when I was 12)
[name_u]October[/name_u] [name_m]Gold[/name_m]

At one point I had a character named [name_f]Darling[/name_f] (I was 12-13 at the time I had created her)

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Currently very proud of my Wings of [name_u]Fire[/name_u] OC’s name, [name_f]Esperance[/name_f], for a half NightWing half SeaWing-RainWing raised in Possibility. It was actually the Word of the [name_u]Day[/name_u] on Dictionary.com a few days ago, and I was like, yep, that’s a sign from the universe! I also had to name my SeaWing-IceWing hybrid Frigid and his SeaWing-MudWing half-brother Seedpod in, like, two seconds, so I think I came up with something pretty great, considering the circumstances.

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[name_u]Hunter[/name_u] [name_m]Remus[/name_m] [name_u]Nyx[/name_u]
[name_f]Tesla[/name_f] [name_f]Odette[/name_f] [name_m]Aldrich[/name_m]
[name_u]Alchemy[/name_u] [name_f]Imogen[/name_f] [name_m]Aldrich[/name_m]
[name_u]Kepler[/name_u] [name_m]Evander[/name_m] [name_m]Aldrich[/name_m]
[name_m]Aloysius[/name_m] [name_m]Nicodemus[/name_m] [name_m]Ulysses[/name_m] [name_m]Zephyrus[/name_m] [name_m]Ludwig[/name_m]

[name_u]Elis[/name_u] [name_u]Ezra[/name_u] [name_u]Greer[/name_u] (Aka, Watcher Lies)
Akumasylvi

[name_f]Mila[/name_f] [name_f]Antoinette[/name_f] Pryce-Farnsworth

[name_m]Greysen[/name_m] [name_m]Kyzer[/name_m] [name_m]Deklan[/name_m] [name_m]Maddux[/name_m] [name_m]Slade[/name_m]
[name_u]Hendrix[/name_u] [name_u]Rhett[/name_u]

[name_f]Invidia[/name_f] [name_f]Minerva[/name_f] [name_f]Tacita[/name_f] [name_f]Ismene[/name_f] [name_m]Slade[/name_m]
[name_m]Jarred[/name_m] “Narcissus” [name_m]Cassian[/name_m] [name_u]Morgan[/name_u]
[name_f]Vaseelia[/name_f] “Vassie” [name_f]Ismene[/name_f] DeVaughn

[name_f]Camellia[/name_f] [name_f]Serafina[/name_f] [name_f]Epperly[/name_f] (aka Swanhild)
[name_m]Jospin[/name_m] [name_m]Alexandre[/name_m] [name_m]Lindos[/name_m] (aka Esclarmond Hart)

[name_f]Lunette[/name_f] [name_f]Willa[/name_f] [name_f]Josephine[/name_f] [name_f]Arabella[/name_f] [name_f]Iris[/name_f] [name_f]Maeve[/name_f] [name_f]Starleen[/name_f] [name_f]Alula[/name_f] [name_f]Thallo[/name_f]
[name_u]John[/name_u] [name_u]Regan[/name_u] MacCurdy

[name_f]Destiny[/name_f] [name_f]Amina[/name_f] [name_u]Palmer[/name_u]

[name_f]Delyth[/name_f] [name_f]Annalisa[/name_f] [name_f]Elixyvett[/name_f]
[name_u]Huxley[/name_u] [name_m]Alexander[/name_m] [name_m]Xavier[/name_m] [name_m]Macaire[/name_m]

[name_u]Wren[/name_u] [name_m]Johannes[/name_m] [name_m]Vander[/name_m]

[name_f]Cosima[/name_f] [name_f]Rosalind[/name_f] [name_f]Allegra[/name_f]
[name_u]Rowan[/name_u] [name_m]Todd[/name_m] [name_u]Radley[/name_u]

[name_m]Garrett[/name_m] [name_m]Penryn[/name_m] [name_m]Valdemar[/name_m] (known surname = Gottfrid)
[name_m]Steven[/name_m] [name_m]Rook[/name_m] [name_u]Autry[/name_u]
[name_f]Eleanora[/name_f] [name_u]Gwyn[/name_u] [name_u]Autry[/name_u]

[name_m]Lucius[/name_m] “Lux” [name_m]Gregory[/name_m] [name_u]Porter[/name_u]
[name_u]Earl[/name_u] [name_u]Maurice[/name_u] [name_u]Jackson[/name_u]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_f]Kathryn[/name_f] “Kitty” Bacon
[name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_u]Azul[/name_u] Bacon

[name_u]Echo[/name_u] [name_f]Silence[/name_f] (aka [name_u]Benjamin[/name_u] Montgomery)
[name_u]Lyric[/name_u] [name_f]Melody[/name_f] (aka [name_f]Sara[/name_f] McCarthy)

[name_f]Snowdrop[/name_f] [name_f]Evaluna[/name_f] [name_m]Saunders[/name_m]
[name_m]Theron[/name_m] [name_m]Ulysses[/name_m] [name_m]Huntington[/name_m]

[name_m]Claudien[/name_m] Milroy Blatcher

[name_m]Nero[/name_m] [name_m]Augustus[/name_m] [name_u]Clarke[/name_u]

[name_f]Erica[/name_f] [name_f]Morwenna[/name_f] [name_m]Bosley[/name_m]
[name_m]Brason[/name_m] [name_m]Augustus[/name_m] [name_m]Aloysius[/name_m] [name_u]Anderson[/name_u] [name_m]Thorpe[/name_m]

[name_f]Severine[/name_f] [name_f]Rosamund[/name_f] [name_f]Lovisa[/name_f] [name_m]Omero[/name_m]
[name_u]Clarence[/name_u] [name_m]Augustus[/name_m] Werthersby

[name_u]Finley[/name_u] [name_u]Bennett[/name_u] [name_u]Dawson[/name_u]

[name_f]Zuleika[/name_f] “Zu” [name_f]Patricia[/name_f] [name_u]Feeney[/name_u]
[name_u]Kestrel[/name_u] [name_m]Flanagan[/name_m] [name_m]Derry[/name_m]

[name_f]Jemima[/name_f] [name_f]Amalthea[/name_f] [name_m]Caliban[/name_m]

[name_f]Mehitabel[/name_f] “Belle” [name_u]Berry[/name_u] [name_m]Price[/name_m]

Greblin [name_u]Frost[/name_u] [name_u]Reed[/name_u]
[name_u]Sylver[/name_u] Hailstorm [name_u]Reed[/name_u]
Pollyanne “Polly” [name_u]Rose[/name_u] Lanuti

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I’m going to put in a plug for [name_f]Celestial[/name_f] Nuñez (various middle names pending) because they’re cool

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