How do you name your character?

[Sacman]

I randomly pic one of Americas Presidents...

 

[Durxom]

I always use my last name for most of my character names in RPGs, since it works awesomely enough as both a first name and a last name. i.e. Drake Cousland as my human noble in DA:O

 

[Straitjacketeering]

I just use my name, makes me feel more immersed

 

[Khada]

Khada, always. has been for many year... unless im playing a girl... then its Kuraki

 

[Poofs]

i always go either Dante or Zombie Fetus

 

[Kukakkau]

I use Kukakkau because it is NEVER taken...probably because I got it by closing my eyes and hitting random keys originally

 

[Shru1kan]

Lets go through the names

"This Kid" (an inside joke with a few friends in halo 3)
"That Other Kid"
"The Black Guy"

Original. The last isn't meant to be racist. I made it up at 5AM for a new redguard character in Oblivion and it stuck, hard.

 

[Jiggabyte]

Lately I bring up a baby naming site and type in the description search a quality and see what ones I don't hate.
Other times its just random. I used to name them after my friends but now that's creepy and boring.

 

[Rickyvantof]

If it's online I'll use Rickyvantof, otherwise just Rick. A main character's name is barely ever used in a game (outside of the menu screen in RPG's and such) so it really doesn't matter. I remember giving my characters in Fallout 3 weird names, like Gorfsmush or something, because i thought it was funny. Really...hilarious.

 

[Meaty Turtle]

I usually stick with "Quasifrodo" unless I'm playing Chrono Trigger when I always rename "Frog" "Penis"

 

[jboking]

I either name my character Jay, jboking, or Anya. Always(with the exception of pokemon - where I name my character I say and LoZ where I name my character link or fagballs for the lulz)

 

[ultracheeser]

I've always liked old latin names, escpecially in Oblivion.

 

[Nouw]

Nouw. I love that name

 

[Nukey]

I usually use a corruption of my own name, either using a shortened version or a different countries version. (EX: Raymundo)

Either that or something from a name generator or something resulted from button mashing until I come up with something that sounds nice.

 

[Chicago Ted]

I have a few stock names, most are RP characters I've made or a friend's made.

Benjamin Cromwell (Known normally as just Cromwell)
Benjamin Crawford
Johny Voorhees
Adrian Crown
Josh Shepard

Or I just use fairly generic names.

 

[CrashBang]

When I got Pokemon Blue I named my character William (my full name)
When I got gold I named him Will (my name shortened)
When I got Ruby I named him Bert (what my dad's always called me... hell, even I don't know why)
When I got Pearl I named him Crash (nickname my best made gave me in our old band)
So that's the progression of my game names. Now, in any RPG etc I name my character Crash. Unless it's a game with a reccomended name, like Link in Zelda or Tidus in FFX
After I'm done with the 'Crash' playthrough, I then make fat male characters and call 'em 'Fat Tits'

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I can never think of a good one... I always name them after a celebrity because I'm crap at coming up with original names. Like my Fallout 3 character is Keanu, my morbidly obese hamster in Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box is named Norm, and my Maple Story character is named JonLovitz. Cookies if you can guess who I named the hamster after.

 

[posom2]

Random. Letters.

Like Durea!

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

I generally just think of something on the spot. A couple of times I've actually sat down and brainstormed character names, but that was for characters I knew I'd be creating but couldn't actually do so yet (new Guild Wars expansion), and those instances were technically during an accounting class (sometimes I would write entire short stories during class because it was so boring).

 

[CrazySlyHawk]

Hawk, 008, Odin Darkblade, CrazySlyHawk, Faye Larne and my latest, Lord Ironsight; been playing a lot of Cod4 on XBL ^^