Thread: How do you pick names?
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Old 12-17-2010, 11:38 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by GoblinWriter View Post
For in-our-world fiction, I like to browse the various baby name sites around the web. They always have the meanings of the names, so I'll pick something appropriate for the character.
I do that too.

In the US, there are even "most popular baby name" lists by year, going back to the 1930's. So I sometimes use the age of a character to pick a year to comb through. 20 year old girl? Popular girl names of 1990. 45 year old man? Popular boy names of 1965.

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