D&D General Of the 15 D&D characters I can remember playing, 8 of them were human

[Faolyn]

One thing that truly amazes me whenever I see lists of people's character names is that, other than pre-gens from modules, no matter how many plyaers list how many characters there's never any duplication of character names between players.



And now that I've jinxed it...

In one of the games I'm in, I'm playing someone named Táo and another PC is Theo. Does that count?

 

[Voadam]

I edited my post to include names I remember.

My eponymous viking wizard character showed up 19 times across eight different editions/game systems.

81 characters.

There was a period where I was regularly adapting then-federal appeals court judges as PC character names. Made my way through the D.C. Circuit, the First Circuit, and partway into the Second Circuit.

For elvish names though I would sometimes just write down a bunch of syllables that flowed well.

 

[Mannahnin]

There was a period where I was regularly adapting then-federal appeals court judges as PC character names. Made my way through the D.C. Circuit, the First Circuit, and partway into the Second Circuit.

 

[Voadam]

[Mic] Hael Boudin is a great Duergar name.

[N] Orman Stahl the Chelaxian swashbuckler was pretty good too.

Sir Merrick Garland the Lawful Good Aasimar fighter worked well with no alteration. It was years after the real Garland had handled the Oklahoma City bombing prosecution and years before the Supreme Court/Attorney General nominations so it was pretty subtle.

 

[Lanefan]

In one of the games I'm in, I'm playing someone named Táo and another PC is Theo. Does that count?

This is the odd thing: I've seen duplication within a single campaign (e.g. one of our long-running games had two Helgas, another had two Jacks) but not across campaigns on lists like these.

And Tao and Theo wouldn't count as duplication for me; just a commentator's nightmare, much like a party I once played in that had three characters names Cieran, Khurin and Curunir.

 

[Richards]

My current 3.5 campaign has two PCs named Xandro and Zander. It irritates me to no end. I've taken to calling Zander by his last name, Quilson.

Johnathan

 

[Mannahnin]

And Tao and Theo wouldn't count as duplication for me; just a commentator's nightmare, much like a party I once played in that had three characters names Cieran, Khurin and Curunir.

I've seen that kind of thing happen. And then in the same group later we made a point of checking in with each other and choosing names that started with different letters/sounds.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Literally all the humans I've ever played in D&D were FR speciality priests of gods that didn't allow non-human SPs.

I have never otherwise played a human PC in D&D.

I may try and work out the "exact figures" later, but quick in-my-head survey tells me that the only race I've played a lot is Half-elf, and that's maybe 20-30% of my PCs.

 

[Ringtail]

??? (Name Forgotten) [Shifter - Warden] - 4e, No Setting, -2012-2013?
Kuo [Hengeyokai - Rogue??] - 4e, No Setting, 2013?
Borivik "Boris" Tallstag [Human - Fighter] - 5e, Buddy's Homebrew, 2014
Snow on the Mountaintop [Tabaxi - Monk] - 5e, Forgotten Realms, 2015
Taliesin (Cold Water in the Rushes) [Tabaxi - Rogue] - 5e, Forgotten Realms, 2017
Snorri, of Clan Horn [Dwarf - Ranger] - 5e, Forgotten Realms 2017-2018
Pelias [Elf - Druid] - 5e, Homebrew 2, 2018
Sebastian Wolfe [Half-Drow - Bard] - 5e, Homebrew 2, 2018
Armar Bronn [Human - Fighter] - 5e, Forgotten Realms 2018-2019
??? [Tiefling - Sorcerer] - 5e, Midgard 2018-2019
Wulfsige [Human - Cleric] - 5e, Homebrew 3, 2019 - Current
Leofwine [Human - Warden] - 5e, Middle-Earth, 2019 - Current
Trym of Reywald [Tabaxi - Rogue] - 5e, Midgard, 2020 - Current

There may have been a one-shot character or two in there I've completely forgotten. Humans are by far my most common race, with Rogue and Fighter tied for common class. Forgotten Realms was our most common setting but the rotating DMs started homebrewing their own settings. My brother started using Midgard. I'm really struggling to remember my sorcerer's name, it wasn't that long ago. It will come back to me.

 

[Voadam]

In one of the games I'm in, I'm playing someone named Táo and another PC is Theo. Does that count?

I am guessing the accent mark means Táo is not pronounced like Tao (Dow).