How do you rate your naming sense?

[CheertheDead]

From 1-10 how would you rate your naming sense?

I am 5 for average. Not a good name maker but not bad either. :3

 

[Gryphon]

Here's a few names from my story. Link in the sig if you think you want to read about these people.

Ty Peon
Harmony Yulyss
Karina Illia
Miranda Vinkle
Jessica Sox
Zihao Yang

I'd say I'm a good 7 or 8. Here's also a few from stories I haven't really started yet.

Ovulus Hellming
Herywon Easle
Gaxtex Wingle

I got more.

 

[Puji-Maki]

1/10

I found a piece of mentos in my pocket, I named one of my characters Mento because of it. I saw a bag of detergent named Ariel, I named my heroine Aria. Simple as that.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

I choose the names for the two main characters for my newest story off a list of Eastern European names. I choose them because they would be easy to heard multiple times in the same paragraph. Although it worked out well because it could be seen as homage to Andrei Tupolev and Kirill Yevstigneye. Both two prolific soviet aviators. So a 5-6

 

[CadmarLegend]

From 1-10 how would you rate your naming sense?

I am 5 for average. Not a good name maker but not bad either. :3

ah... ah... ah.... terrible.

1-3ish.

Sometimes I come up with unique and memorable names. Then... there are times that I just... die.

And this is really hindering because "I am the type who is liable to snipe you, with 2 seconds left to go. Got Paypal or Visa, whatever'll please yeah, as long as I've got.. the dough~ (Ebay by weird al Yankovic)"

In all seriousness though, I have this OCD-ish thing where I just can't continue writing unless I have created names. This sucks. Because I come up with the trashiest names. Even baby name websites aren't good.

 

[atgongumerki]

2

it's very unstable, ranging from -10 to 7, so 2 could be a good guesstimate

I botched my math and harmonic average resulted in 50, but 50 is not within the range of possible answers

so I am going with 2

the more pressing issue though, is that I constantly forget what I named the characters

 

[Agentt]

1.

The only name I have is "you."

 

[AliceShiki]

I'd give myself a 10/10, mainly because I don't think naming sense is particularly important for a novel.

Names need to be easily remembered by the readers, not sound stupid, and they can't be easily confused with some other name within the novel... As long as they pass those 3 benchmarks, they're already a 10/10 to me.

Your organization can be named "[Animal] + [Color]" and nobody will bat an eye. Your surname can be "[Adjective] + [Noun]" and your readers will be very happy about it. Your name can be something you randomly thought of on a whim, your grandma's name, or something you picked from a Fantasy Name Generator and it will all be good.

Examples:

• The Grey Wolves Bandits.
• The Red Owls Mercenary Organization.
• The Evenstar Duke family.
• The Elven Kingdom of Lushvale
• Princess Aki
• Queen Claire

Or... If you want some examples from more renowned authors instead of things I came up from the top of my head...

• Greyjoy family - Game of Thrones
• Winterfell Palace - Game of Thrones
• Redcliff Earl - Dragon Age Origins

So uhn... Yeah. Don't overthink names, names are there just to make a character/place/faction recognizable. They don't need to be amazing works of art.

Caveat: If you are writing something with an important name-related prophecy or whatever, you'll obviously need to be more careful with thinking up your names, but those are the exception and not the norm.

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

Just like my real name, its half and half.

Just good enough to be passable as a normal name at the same time not memorable just like me.

Hahahaha....

*Sulks in a corner*

 

[NotaNuffian]

Online random name generator go brrr~

 

[Anon_Y_Mousse]

10.
I will name dragons after sauces and no one can stop me.

 

[Mellohwa]

From 1-10 how would you rate your naming sense?

I am 5 for average. Not a good name maker but not bad either. :3

10~

Faith on my naming sense, I have.

Tho,

I usually browse names on a random name generator to get a stimulant for my naming sense. Depending on the genre of the story ofc.

 

[Deleted member 22388]

7/10; Nairo is upgraded from Niro which I was surprised to find something I subconsciously borrow from Fate/Grand Order [Nero]
6/10; Otherwise this is but fun-average Shieldanox, Slime-kun.
8-9; There are more in my old damaged phone which I can't recover unless I fix it with moneh.
All of them has no western elements but more eastern-style or more into snake sound that focuses on s, x, q.
I consider 10/10 to be of original and rarely(nonexistent) heard which is my wife's name which I don't want to tell.

 

[Deleted member 58005]

I don't think mine is particularly bad. Most of mine have meanings.

Kenneth Conroy Enchanter
Lena Apollo Enchanter
Lucas Griffin Enchanter
Catalyn Megistus Enchanter
Aurelia Evergreen Enchanter

They all have the same surname since, well, they're siblings. Conroy means "wise advisor", though my MC calls himself Kenneth. Apollo is more because he is the god of light, if I remember. Lena is a Light Magic user, so there's that.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

According to urban dictionary and the naming to personality accuracy that @K5Rakitan thread pointed out, I would say 8/10

 

[RepresentingWrath]

6\10.

 

[gogo7966]

9 out of 11

 

[Aaqil]

3/10,

 

[Ai-chan]

From 1-10 how would you rate your naming sense?

I am 5 for average. Not a good name maker but not bad either. :3

Horrible 4/10. That's why Ai-chan made naming programmes that output randomized names. The last one Ai-chan made has over 12 trillion different permutations, which means Ai-chan will never get the same randomized names even if Ai-chan were to click 'reroll' for Ai-chan's entire awesome life, yo!

Name 1: Toro = Toro
Name 2: Marufu = Maruf
Name 3: Hiyukato = Hiyuka/Hyuka
Name 4: Roeshisoyo = Roshi/Shisoo

Name 1: Riyo = Rio/Riyo
Name 2: Tetaru = Tetar/Etaru
Name 3: Numokoko = Numo/Koko/Mokoko
Name 4: Rumiokowa = Rumi/Rumio/Okowa/Kokoa

Westname 1: James Shortfallen
Westname 2: Gary Forthold
Westname 3: Orvik Axebiter
Westname 4: Marius Fogshade

 

[MissPaige36]

From 1-10 how would you rate your naming sense?

I am 5 for average. Not a good name maker but not bad either. :3

I know like three languages and I’d rate it a solid 3 because I’m horrible with coming up with good names