Now, naming characters is hard, I'm gonna admit that, but hopefully this is an article on how to help you with that.
1. Relevance to Nationality and the Era they Were Born in
What nationality is your character? (If your character doesn't have a nationality, just ignore this) Are they Chinese, English, American? What names are more likely to be used in these areas? When were they born? What were the popular names of the time?
And easy answer to all these questions is research, and research is fun, there are plenty of baby naming sites, and records of popular names throughout time.
2. Random Words...
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