What Is In A Name?

Post by **Lyra McManus** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:54 am

My dad and I had this conversation once a while ago about cool names, and the name "Lyra" came up. It came from the latin (greek? meh, whatever) for harp...lyre. Then I read the "His Dark Materials" series and liked the name even more. So when I was coming up with my HOL name, I tried to think of a cool name, I remembered the conversation and the character that I liked, and so Lyra it was.

McManus is a family name. It's not my RL last name, but I do like it and I wanted my character to be Irish. Well...Irish-American. Whatever, you get what I mean /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:01 pm

Drakonix is kinda a cool name (i didn't realize how close it was to 'Draco' for a looooooong time...oops) and also my character is a bit of a tough girl, a gothic, sarcastic character, so i thought it kinda matched. In my RP that I do with my peeps Drakonix is unsure of her parentage, and only knows that they're both magical and crazy (she later finds out they were both Death Eaters), and that her father killed her mother (he was convinced that her loyalty to You-Know-Who was false, even though it wasn't). She inherited the ability to speak to snakes from her mother, so when wizard law allowed her to choose her own surname since legally she didn't have one, she chose Serpentspeaker. Hooray!

Post by **Addy Cassic** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:06 am

Addy Cassic....I've always liked the name Addy, it's short for Adelina in this case, and Cassic was a surname I invented for a family on the Sims ages ago and it just popped into my head! /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> Nothing particualrly interesting but...

Post by **Lyza Zhen Haliwell** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:36 pm

Lyza is the name I used in the net. Its sound is close to my real name and I feel comfortable with it. Zhen is actually derived from Zen you know peace and calmness and everything. and Haliwell of course is from the HALLIWELL the charmed.

Post by **Braeden Delacour** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:53 am

Before signing up, I had just heard of the name Braeden, and I just fell in love with it. As far as Delacour, it's obviously Fleur's last name, and I just really like it. It sounds very elegant.

Post by **Kyros Corvall** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:42 pm

Kyros is a name I discovered on a list of Greek baby names which means "Leader" or "Master". I just really like it.

As far as Corvall, It really just kind of came to me when I was trying to think of a good last name that would fit well with "Kyros". I liked it too, so there we are. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Post by **Estra Black** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:43 am

Well my name Estra Black came mostly from Sirius Black.
I think he's fun! As for Estra, well... I think they sound good together. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Post by **Penny Hung** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:27 pm

Well, even though Penny is my real name, and hung is my real last name, I use it on nearly all of my harry potter. Even though Its my real name, my character is really... me. lol.. not really, but year.

Post by **Daniel Pettersson** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:38 pm

I simply took my real name, because I always have trouble thinking of names when it comes to these things.

Post by **Aeryn Brown** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:52 pm

'Aeryn' is a more aesthetic spelling of my own legal name, which is going to be legally changed at the first opportunity. And 'Brown' is my real-life surname.

Post by **Brenna Delaney** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:17 am

I honestly can't remember why I chose Brenna Delaney over all other possibilities. She's been my HP character for years, ever since I realized my Melody Twins were horribly Mary Sue-ish. All I did was go through the appropriate lists on Babycenter.com's Babynamer until I found something with the best sound and meaning. Brenna for Raven maid, because she has black hair and sounds unpretentious. Angharad for Beloved, pretending that it's a family name. Delaney for Descendant of the challenger, just because it sounded cool.

No links, please. -Cosmo

Post by **Morgana Sullivan** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:09 pm

Interesting stuff. Whoot.

Anyhow, I'm pretty much obsessed with fantasy-stuff, and a while ago I sort of discovered Arthurian legend. "Morgana" comes from the other name of Morgan le Fay, who I find a really interesting character. Plus, the name is pretty. =)

"Sullivan" comes from Gaelic meaning "dark-eyed one", which I am, though I discovered the name while searching for a meaningful character name for a story. Funny how I used it differently than planned. Hm.

Post by **Rion Tenssen** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:35 am

My name is Rion Tenssen, how did I come up with the name?

Well I like to hand out in my neighboor's house alot and she's very into Japan and the japanese languege. Of course, she has a nick name in japanese and I wanted one.

Rion in japanese means lion, which is my favorite animal by the way.

And Tenssen came from my brother's nick name, while we were coming up with a last name.

Thus appeared the name "Rion Tenssen"! /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

Post by **Freddie Wallace** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:46 am

Well my name isn't all that exciting!

When I joined HOL I too was under pressure to quickly pick a name. I though of one of my favourite names and I am also a big fan of Queen. So here I produced Freddie!

Wallace is just a random name that I got from a name generator. It was the surname. I thought it was funny so I used it! Also Wallace and Gromit are good!

Post by **Amica Somnium** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:35 pm

Well, Amicus is friend in Latin and Somnium is leader in Latin. I thought that this both sounded pretty and made an interesting name, so that was that!

Post by **Katie Stuart** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:45 pm

Oh well....Katie is my real first name so I used that as it was easy and simple. And Stuart I just randomly picked because I thought the name sounded nice.

Everyone else has really special pretty names that sound really cool but mine sounds really common!

Oh well! /unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":unsure:" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

Post by **Naomi Wise** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:05 am

Don't worry, Katie. You're not the only one who looks at this and says, "er... I guess I just picked a *name*." /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

I like the name Naomi and Wise just seemed like a perfectly normal surname to go with it. It's nothing fancy, nothing meaningful. Just a first name and a surname I thought went together and sounded relatively timeless (not caught up in any era or culture's naming trends).

Call it a euphonious invention. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Post by **Ani Snape** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:14 am

Ani, cause its my name in real life and Snape cause I have a slight obsession with Alan Rickman and he plays Snape in the HP films so...

Post by **Orchid Nox** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:50 pm

We got kittens a few months ago - one, the gray one, was to be named Orchid - because when we picked it out, we thought it was female. The other, another female, was to be named Nox. So, the name Orchid Nox naturally came about.

Unfortunately, both kittens turned out to be - well, here is their picture:

Orchid, aka Loki, turned out to be male.

And we decided that Nox just didn't fit - because she's a lil stinker - and now her name is Eris.