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I have such trouble with names, my characters usually either go through a name change or have a placeholder nickname until I can come up with one that fits. I mostly write fantasy. Usually I'll try to make up some basic phonetic rules for whatever culture the character's from and throw some sounds together based on that until I come up with something. For non-fantasy I love love love behindthename.com - so useful!
Foreign words (with appropriate meanings) can be cool, as well as providing kind of a 'bonus' for people who actually speak the language. One thing I'd advise people to be wary of, though, is taking random words from foreign languages and making them names - it sounds great until someone actually speaks that language and your characters are named things like "Table", "Rug" and "Lamp"! I read a story like that once, and just couldn't take it seriously at all.
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