Your favorite name for a character

[ShelbyDawn57]

I was just reading one of my stories that happened to get a nice comment today, and I came across Lord Benjamin Biscuit.
He's a teacup terrier, and I remembered how much I love that name, especially for a teacup terrier.

I thought it would be a nice safe, possibly fun, thread to start to have everyone share a personal favorite name from their pantheon of characters.

BTW, Lord Biscuit's personal servant(owner) is a 6'8", 280 pound man named Victor. I thought that was cute, too.

So, What ya' got?

 

[MrPixel]

I'll play!

My favorites are, yes, my go-to MMC and FMC, "Steve Albertson" and "Cyan Leslie". "Steve" and "Albertson" are so vanilla, Midwest-nondescript and non-threatening that his role as instigator and rake-in-chief is at once subtle and surprising. "Cyan" is evocative of a... yes... colorful character, a little edgy and sensuous, with "Leslie" rolling off the tongue and imparting a smooth litheness.

 

[StillStunned]

Sligh. He's sleazy and sneaky (although he improves when you get to know him). "Sligh the Slimy".

 

[SimonDoom]

I had some fun with my Loving Wives Mike Hammer-style spoof. The lead character was the hard-bitten detective Sonny Biggs, and his wimpy, cuckolded client was Myron Hansfield.

Science fiction stories are fun, because if you set them in different, future worlds you can just make up names. I liked the name of my heroine in my tentacle sex story, Talia Denzer, and I liked the name of the sleazy CEO/owner of the corporation that hired her, Dars Stenvo.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

The noir piece that I'm working on has several characters and since it involves street gangs I'm having a lot of fun with the names. There's guys named Jive and Toof, girls named Chilly and Booty, a couple other guys named Meat, Fat Jimmy, Stevie C and Fast Freddy, then there's Russell the Muscle, and of course the corrupt cop Detective Perry Twist.

 

[Bamagan]

I like joke names. Not all of my principal characters have them, but many do. The toe I dipped into the actual SF/F category has protags named Harry Balzac and Anita Wang. Slightly more subtle is Berenice Tate, which serves as a jumping off point to a nickname she loathes, Very Nice Teats. But as both of those stories are at least in the vicinity of comedies (in the comedy of errors sense), they hopefully aren't jarring the way they might be in a romance or thriller, or anything going for a tense mood.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

My porn name is Anita Goodlay. What's yours?

 

[lustychimera]

Had a guy named Richard Grommet because I'm 5.

 

[MillieDynamite]

My picks for the stupidest names in fiction are Katniss Everdeen, Draco Malfoy, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth characters in The Scarlet Letter, Humbert Humbert, Lord Lancaster Stiltstalking, and Guybrush Threepwood.

Oh, wait, our favorite name to use is (drumroll) none of the above.

 

[karina_jayde]

Writing a lot of fantasy means I get to have fun with names.

One of my personal favorites is a witch named 'Kestrel-Who-Circles-At-Dawn,' named because children from her culture are sometimes named after the first wild animal their mother sees after giving birth. So she was 'Kestrel' or 'Kes' for short.

Kestrels are one of my favorite birds, too.

 

[AchtungNight]

My favorite original character name is Contessa Winfield. Contest Win Field. It was inspired.

You can spot her in my stories. The unbelievably slutty but ethical doctor. She goes by Tess for short.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Your favorite name for a character​

It’s cheating I know, but Emma & Lily White. White isn’t their real surname - neither demons nor angels seem to have those (except Lucy Morningstar, and that’s more of an epithet), and the pair are not related, but it was a fun partial pseudonym for them to adopt as cover.

Emma’s real name is Emmoreth. I haven’t worked out if Lily is just Lily. Will do when I write her origin story.

Emily

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Joe.

 

[MrPixel]

I don't use funny names since I try to set my stories as "plausible although extreme fantasies." Goofy names spoil the realism illusion, although I do have a "Benjamin Dover". His introduction is accompanied by dialog about how he puts up with it.

 

[AchtungNight]

For the record I have used a demon naming theme for my original character Lisa Coleman’s past relationships. Bill Mannon, Simon Astar and his sister Lily, Chas Kurgan, Louis Cypher Stanton, Nicole Masterson (think Old Nick, son of the Master), an outlaw named Snake…

It’s because Lisa is actually a fantasy girlfriend of mine. I told a priest about her when I was a kid and he said if I kept on with the fantasy I was going to Hell. I have always been the sort of person smart enough to tell the difference between reality and fantasy, so I laughed in his face and told him “I know.” Good and evil isn’t always black and white.

Lisa has had a lot of one night stands. I think I’ll call two of the ones she broke up with over moral differences Michael and Gabe.

 

[yowser]

I always liked the evil sybarite Kira Thrupshot in my Mike Hammer mystery (married to shipping magnate Jared Thrupshot.) And Sophie Eastern, paleographer, from 'An Infernal Folio.'

 

[Bodington]

I have liked the name Penny Dreadful. Of course, it's not any real female name that I'm aware of. Instead, its usage is chiefly referred to cheap (hence penny as the price) popular (i.e. not for the discerning reader) serial literature produced during the 19th century in the United Kingdom. However, I would imagine that it would be a suitable nom de plume for a porn actress. Accordingly in one my works (Navy Nurse) I have a secondary female character who is an ex Porn star and who utilized that name when she was in the business.

 

[RetroFan]

I don't know if its the same thing, but Chris is my go-to name for supporting male characters in my stories, for the most part non-erotic characters like a brother or cousin, the husband/boyfriend of a female character or a co-worker.

 

[Djmac1031]

From The Devil And Angel Em;

Job Silverstein is a pretty average looking guy who.... SPOILERS... gets transformed into a hunk with a huge cock after making a deal with the Devil for his soul.

He immediately goes into the porn business, and chooses his stage name:

Dirk "Beefslab" Silvers.

Intentionally ridiculous, as most porn names are, and based on a running gag during a classic Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode where the gang spew numerous fake names for the hunky, beefy hero of the film.

 

[Cagivagurl]

I once used my real name in a story...
Don't ask me why, but the thought that it was there excited me...

 

[Britva415]

Tad

 

[Rob_Royale]

I got into symphonic metal about fifteen years ago and discovered a band called NIghtwish. They have a song called Amaranth. For some reason the word resonates with me and the song is a favorite. Amaranth is a beautiful red flower and ancient grain, and has through the centuries has been a symbol for immortality, good luck and prosperity. It has a nickname of 'love lies bleeding'.

Someday, I'll come up with a story based on the name Amaranth. Probably some fantasy/faerie tale or something along those lines.

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[Phantom300]

I have April Mae Juneau, the prankster born on April 1st, from Boner Check. It is my worst rated story, so there is that

 

[Mogrem]

Sin, short for a modern day Sinbad, AKA Sindibādu l-Bahriyy.

The story has nothing at all to do with Sinbad though, I've no idea what I was thinking. I've got about three more chapters written up, but I can't bring myself to finish of because A) it has nothing to do with Sinbad, even after I some contrived episodic similarities, and B) He's such a bastard.

But I still like having an unpleasant main character called Sin, short for Sinbad, who is going on an adventure.

 

[MillieDynamite]

In the Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels, the most common woman's first name used was, Mary. The most often man's first name used was John. Then there is a legion of strange first names: Sherlock, Mycroft, Jabez, Godfrey, Wilhelm, Moore (as a first name), Hilda, Sebastian, Jemmy, Dost, Paramore (probably a last name not a first). There were no less than 3 Mrs. Watson, but the only first name ever given was Mary, and the question is, were they all named Mary?