About Your Dog Tags (Character Name Origins)

[Corvetta Salvo]

So I remember ages ago, there was a posting game where we explained how we came up with our character names. I did some searching and couldn't find it. I guess it got purged That One Time.

Anyway, I like etymology, sci-fi wordsmithing, and just good stories in general. So I'd like to restart this topic


Post how you came up with your character's name, why it's significant, and what each part of their name means to you.

 

[Corvetta Salvo]

I'll start us off.

Corvetta - like a corvette
Karia - I took it as an alternate form of the name 'Kari'... but it sounds like 'carrier'.
Frigati-Salvo - Frigati is obviously meant to sound like 'frigate', and 'salvo' is a term for the simultaneous firing of multiple guns on a warship.

(If you want to dig even further, her parents were named Vesil (vessel) and Rachette (ratchet).)

Essentially, I wanted my character's name to naturally feel like it could not possibly belong to anyone but a pilot.

 

[Darth Ferus]

Krest-Random name generator on WoW (Before they got rid of it)

Been using it for five years for a couple different characters. Just like it. Pretty simple I guess.

 

[Saera Willamina Savan]

Saera - Just sounds cool and I like the "ae" character.
Aynea - Mommy One's true birth name.
Savan - Mommy Two's surname.

 

[Nyxie]

Ashelotte - Just sounds hella nice, and fancy alike.
Saybin - First surname. Mark came up with it for one of Circe's identities.
Malfrost - Made up on a whim, also my clan's name.

Ashe the Reaper - It was just a spontaneous nickname gained when Ashe was still an undead vampire, because energy vampires can also turn people to zombies.

 

[Thurion Heavenshield]

'Thurion Heavenshield' is an old name I've used when roleplaying ever since the good ol' days of Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale on PC. He's always been my go-to Paladin name.

 

[Thyrian Hearthfire]

For Thyrian, I knew I needed a name similar to 'Thurion' since the two are brothers, and I quickly came up with 'Thyrian'. 'Ashborn' is merely descriptive of his personality, as well as his appearance back when he wasn't human.

 

[Corruck Kazen]

Corruck Kazen
Corruck was from a random generated name from KOTOR 2, thought it fit well with Zann. As Corruck is close to corrupt. Liked the similarity and stuck that on.
Kazen was a made name I thought up when making the character on this site, so that he wasn't called Zann. It was to simulate someone continually changing names to escape the authorities.
Zann is pretty obvious, from the EAW FoC game.
Corruck Zann was his original name and it is the oldest character I have had. Not on this site, but across all games. It is my favorite standby.

 

[Antoir Setrrin]

Ven'Rain was originally Val'Rain.
So~
Val comes from Valerie, which is always been a favorite name of mine. Also, Valerie is sometimes associated with being a 'darker', more 'gothic' name. And seeing as Val started out as just that kind of person, it worked.
Now, it was actually raining the day I first made the character. Not really surprising. I live in Washington state, it always rains here. So, being the semi-uncreative person I sometimes am, I put that at the end. Valrain didn't look right... so, I inserted an apostrophe. It worked.
In the past her last name was Stormbringer. Well, it was actually Storm, but before her mother gave her up for adoption, she 'changed' it to Stormbringer. Seeing as she never went through the official progress, the orphanage just kind of went 'eh, it's a cool last name, so, kark it, she can keep it'.

When I came here I decided to switch things up a bit. So Val became Ven (Venn in the first-ever draft of her bio), and Stormbringer became Sekairo.
Kairo is meant to be similar to the capitol of Egypt (literally pronounced the same way), while the Se (pronounced suh) was just the first thing that came to mind.

Eternae (the name I use the most these days) comes from Eternal. When I first made her, for a book of mine, she is portrayed as a Goddess of sorts. So it made since for her to be eternal.
Can't remember much about any of the other names.

 

[Garza]

My character, OOC wise, is a decendent of Zayne Carrick a not so very well known force user. (maybe) and I wanted to create a blood line that came from him because Zayne's story is my favorite out of all of the possible story lines. and so i wanted to create a variation of Zayne. I came up with Zaine, and Zander. But I didn't want to keep the Z, and so I changed it to an X. it fitted much more easily, and was more suited to the character as a kid. (I started him at the age of 16) and it just fit with Xander Carrick.

Darren Shaw was a name that I used for my Warrior classes in alot of games. I randomly came up with the name when games would allow you to name your characters.

Morna Imura started out as just Morna. I had no real last name for him. and what I found was a book about a young boy that lived with his older brother during a zombie apocalypse, and his last name ended with Imura. I borrowed the name and it matches.

Nickolas is actualy a friends name that I have and he is German. But I didn't want to copy his name completely. My friends name is spelled Nikalas, A german varation of Nicholas. I then clashed the English form and German form and it worked. Then you already know the story of the name Imura.

All the rest of the peoples names I have like Zoey Marix, and other such were just made on the spot of creation.

 

[Soeht]

There is no meaning to this character's name.

I'm creatively bankrupted.

Meaningful names are lazy.

One of these statements is false.

 

[EmKay]

Atretes - Dune Reference. (Different spelling so it's not obvious)
Rhoujen - Messing with letter sounds and coming up with some nice-sounding combinations, and this one stuck. I wrote it down and made it my current surname when I needed it.

 

[Sannika Brynn]

Sanna and Annika are both names I really really like. I combined them, and now it kinda sounds like 'Sonic-a', which is cool for a fighter pilot.

Brynn was just a random name that sounded nice when succeeding 'Sannika'.

 

[Preliat Mantis]

Ashelotte - Just sounds hella nice, and fancy alike.
Saybin - First surname. Mark came up with it for one of Circe's identities.
Malfrost - Made up on a whim, also my clan's name.

Ashe the Reaper - It was just a spontaneous nickname gained when Ashe was still an undead vampire, because energy vampires can also turn people to zombies.

i bet you like twilight don't you





also, preliat is a cool name, and it was the name of a character that I really liked back on an old forum rp that I did. tribute to the guy who made him. sad story.

 

[Avicus DuSang]

Avicus was a 3rd party character in The Vampire Lestat. I dug it's ring.

DuSang is French for "of the blood." Originally for Avicus DuSang, the vampire. But, it works for Sith Avicus, being he's a blueblood.

As for his Darth name. Sen nou is Japanese for "mind control." Avicus is an empath. Messing with the mind is his game, baby.

 

[Deleted]

Good thread! Here are my creations:

Krius Syonis - Modelled on Magneto from the 'X-Men' prequel movies starring Michael Fassbender. A name that just sounded like mine (Chris) fit for another galaxy, and Syonis was something totally made up to have a ring to the whole name. No meaning, just a sci-fi sounding name.

Ben Trasker - Modelled on the action heroes of Arnold Schwarzenegger so I took some of his everyday heroes and blended them. Ben after Ben Richards in "The Running Man" and Trasker a modified version of Harry Tasker in "True Lies" so not to be a TOTAL rip-off!

Connor Harrison - Modelled on Khan from 'Star Trek Into Darkness', so I used the normal surname Harrison after Khan's alter-ego John Harrison. Connor comes from the game 'Assassins Creed III' and I thought it sounded a little historic and natural, so used that first name.

Asterion - Modelled on Wolverine from the 'X-Men' movies. I wanted the name to reflect his animalistic look and Sith rage so 'Asterion' is the birth name of the beast that became known as the Minotaur in Greek myth, so I felt that was very apt.

Kail Ragnar - Modelled on Mad Max from the new 'Fury Road', Kail was a name tweaked from a female friend with a smiliar name but I adapted it to be spoken as Kyle, but in the SW universe. And Ragnar was initially the name I was going to use for him, like a codename, but wanted to make him more human, and settled for Ragnar as a surname which means "Warrior from the Gods" in Nordic myth.

 

[Fabula Caromed]

I didn't even name Fabs. She was named by some crazy Italian chick I met on that one site. Her name means "Storyteller." It doesn't fit her, but we agreed it fits me. So it stuck.

Cavataio is a legit Sicilian family name. I dunno what it's supposed to mean.

Razelle Breuner was named partially after a character from Willow, and partially after a girl I had a crush on in high school.

Codi Zrgaat was named from the Wookiee. I found a short name that I liked and a cool last name that I liked (it sounds like I should be saying Tiger Uppercut!).

 

[Nikolas Faselli]

So... Let me start, then.

When I first thought about making a Zambrano character, i knew I would have to make a noble person, yet somebody who seems as a strong figure. I had decided that the perosn would be a woman, but finding a name was difficult. Then I just took the first name which popped into my head - Maria. But having only one name didn't sound noble enough, so I thought of getting a middle name for her, which ended up being Natalja. Because I wanted to keep the Russian theme. I have no idea what Zambrano means, though.

Now the names don't match with her character anymore, though.

 

[Asbjorn Olafsson]

Jasmine was made after my lovely Darth Malificete. At first I just wanted to have somebody in Lilith's backstory, so I came up with another random name, which was, like you know, Jasmine. It has always been a name I love and not only because of its vulnerability, but also because it reminds me of jasmin.

Jazzy is a stupid name, I agree. But I needed a nickname for her, so...

Finally, Lancaster. It was actually stolen from somebody. I mean, they used it first in a story and then I started liking the name and so my characters ended up being Lancasters.

 

[Vereaux]

Ah, names xD

I'll start with my username, Vereaux. When I first started writing, I had to start somewhere. That place was GaiaOnline, and it was there I met a woman who created a fantasy setting dealing with a Fae clan named Vereaux. Let's just say it was a very big family xP I came in as her older brother, Michael Vereaux, who disappeared when he went to the east. What the name means, I have no clue. I've been using the name ever since xD

Sorin Vanado is a recent invention in some respects. Sorin means "sun", derived from the Romanian word "soare" which has Latin roots to "sol" or sun. I knew immediately the character would need red hair, but his current form wasn't for Star Wars, but back at Gaia when I made him into a tall mercenary with long hair. This was back around five or so years ago, but two years ago, I personally took the name as my pagan name in real life without realizing I had used it before, though it just stuck anyway and I've being using it since. The name Vanado didn't come about until I was joining a different Star Wars website. I wanted something to sound cool that started with a V, but felt frustrated. Then I came across the element "Vanadium" that appears as a red crystal in nature as Vanadinite. Considering the symbol is a V and the obvious connection to the color red, I tweaked the name slightly and Sorin Vanado was born =)

Dumah Zohar was not a recent invention, and has a very biblical connection. The name Dumah is from an angel, known as a "thousand-eyed angel of death" and the word itself is from the Aramaic word for "silence". The word fit so perfectly in my mind because I wanted him to be an assassin, the death aspect, and the concept of silence when dealing with a villain has always perked my interest. The name Zohar comes directly from "The Zohar" from the Kabbalah in Jewish literature. I choose it because I wanted his character to be that of a foundation, the origins and ideals of "silence" that would become part of his story. As an angel of death, he would be the bridge between good and evil, a balance or silence, that would watch the world from the shadows.