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I like to think about the character and then use something about him or her to develop a name. For example, in "The Colors of Passion and Love", there is a character who is a lawyer. So then I went back to ancient Greece for two names. Thank you, Wikipedia. One was easy, "Salon." The other is "Licurgo" which is a corruption of a famous Greek lawyer's name.
I love to play with names. "Sarah Talmaiz" and "Pall Swiftcar" for example. Or "Baylispli Tyre", his brother "Racer", and their spaceship, "The Lugging Nut."
If you love Heinlein, you probably can't resist inferences to his works, like "Captain Longlife." And in "Surviving the Fog", I knew that a lot of characters would be introduced, so I deliberately did not give most of them last names, so that the reader would find the characters easier to follow.
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