r/CharacterNames

Two characters who only serve the purpose of abusive/neglectful parents (man and woman). Their daughters are called Carmelita Shirley, Antoinette Maria, and Clementine Minerva (the latter names all being middle names). Their last name is one syllable. What are two names (one for each parent) to connote snobbery, insincerity, wealth, etc?

EDIT: I figured a desc of their physical appearances would help. They both use a LOT of triangular shape language and such, very sharp, very unsmiling, both with jet black hair (but as a fun lore: one of them dyes it black and no one knows which one).

ALSO EDIT: I'd love for one of them to have a J name, but that's just for a bit of comedy to myself

Got an idea for a brutal dictator, and had a perfect name for him.

Donald: Royal roots, and means a ruler of a world.

Trump: A suit that outranks other suits. This character is the highest ranking a man can get. Trump can also mean something false and phony. It is also Irish and British slang for a windy fart, which pokes a bit of fun at him. The name in general has an odious, gluttonous, and bloated feeling to it. What do you think?

I'm searching for a fun feminine space-themed name (or something that just sounds celestial). My OC is a very colourful character from outer space. She's super energetic, kind of childish and her looks are pretty feminine. I really like vowels like a/e/i and for consonants n/v/l, they all feel very fleety to me, which is what I'm looking for.

Hey 👋

A few of us are putting together a podcast for writers — covering everything from the writing process, publishing, marketing, author life, novel promotion, creative struggles, funny interviews, behind-the-scenes chaos, and all the stuff nobody tells you about writing books 😅

We’d love your honest opinion on the podcast name before we lock it in.

Which one would YOU be most likely to click on?

1. Between the Lines
2. Ink and Insight
3. The Narrative Lab
4. The Plot Thickens
5. The First Draft Club
6. Ink Warriors
7. Manuscript to Market
8. The Writer Collective
9. Rebel Writers
10. Unscripted
11. Show Don’t Tell
12. Word Warriors

You can vote with:
• your favourite
• your top 3
• or tell us which ones you’d avoid entirely 😂

Would also love to know what makes a writing podcast title memorable to you.

I need an Egyptian name that is not Arabic or Muslim for an oc of mine. Preferably male.

I have two French OCs, Jean-Louis and Peirre, and they need last names!

I have a character who was legally born as Sithsei Noijung but she is no longer named that and I can't decide on a new name for her.

Her new name can either be made up, or of Greek origin. It can be a word (or inspired by a word but not actually a word) but it should ideally have a more negative/undesirable meaning. It can't be just because the name is associated with someone bad as that history & religion doesn't exist in their world so it wouldn't mean anything negative to them.

It needs to be different to her birth name and not just something similar.

Her surname would need to be changed too but I'm focused more on the given name right now.

Thank you 😊

I have two characters and their ship, that I'm blanking on names for. Any suggestions would help, names are so hard.

Natalie is the first name of the main character. Mixed-mutt spacefuture heritage. I need some kind of last name for her. She works as a solo salvager -- flying around to derelicts, looting what she can, fixing and/or reselling it.

She has a ship, which also houses a helper AI system. These, I like having distinct names. The idea of the helper AI is like from the book "The Last Human", where everyone has some kind of helper AI. (Please don't make this into a mess of people talking about current day generative AI)

Other names I've come up with so far are:

Marco Moretti, her station-side tech friend.

David Carter, a corpse she found aboard a derelict ship, the McMillan IV.