Character Names - How Do You Come Up With Yours?

[Mallus]

...it always comes up with something creative without being silly.

You should try silly sometime, it's liberating.

(says the guy who's played Plundarr the Pirate-Barbarian, Joseirus, the Egyptian God of Mexican Wrestling, and Chana Saag Krishna-Gandhi "Eastwood" West, the Hindu space cowboy...)

 

[DreadArchon]

Mentioned, but I use this.

 

[scotdrew]

For fantasy, I used foreign language dictionaries. For modern, I use a baby name book.

 

[Graybeard]

I use a variety of sources for names. I have used a baby name book, the phone book, fantasy/sci fi books, The Ever Changing Book of Names, and sometimes variations on book titles or place and people names.