Names names names....

[Fierfly]

Hey Guys! Okay, I know we already have a thread or two about our usernames and the names of our characters, but I wanted to do another one so....here I am. I'd say we have a pretty creative group of people here with how we choose our names, Meds has specifically translated words or meanings for Kanga and Maanaki (Curse and Blessing respectively), Tear has some whole story-arc/family pride and heritage thing going on with Stormstar, Aurelia and that line and then there are some people like Shiver and Rykett...
-Savu
-Mykko
-Amora
-Kokem
... There is nothing wrong with these names, but they're definitely less traditional, so I'm kinda curious as to what inspired y'all to choose the names that you did for your characters and what your methods are for choosing names. Google translate one of their outstanding personality traits? Puns? Elemental? Fantasy spelling? Fantasy based? Whatever sounds cool? Complete random? Lemme know...because...I need some help. Spoilers for Venus's history, but I'm stuck so I'm gonna need some help. Venus has two twin brothers "dark iron-gray, with white stars on their chests and dove gray belly-fur," and one of them has a white marking somewhere on the face, where I have no idea, still figuring it out, but I'm getting there. Anyway, they're twins and I would like sorta matching names for them, but I'm completely out of ideas. Also in need of a girl name for the story, all three should be sky/astronomy/earth based if you can. Thank-you!

[Meds]

I'm always partial to untraditional names, as you may have guessed!

For Nyx, I wanted something that embodied her dark personality and everything that surrounded her as a pup. Her old pack waned something dark as well, so they picked Nyx which means 'Night' or 'Goddess of the Night'.
I always name a character LAST, after I have their whole back stories and bios made, then I go off of that. I often choose elements of their BACK story to name them from, and if none of those are good, then I go to power or personality names (but never obvious names. Fia, for example, means flickering fire and I do plant to get her Flame, but it was also a mix of Fjord and Skia. If I had an easily frightened character, I may either translate words like 'fear,' or 'weak,' until I found a language it soudned good in, or I would search up female names MEANING *insert word here*). I never use names like Snowy or Starry or anything xD


For female names circling around astronomy: Aurora (borealis. Also the Roman Goddess of Dawn), Cassiopeia (the constellation), Mercury (if the female is older and a sibling. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, Venus is the second), Faye (A comet in the Jupiter family).

Twin boy names: Archer/Aries (half-man half-horse Sagittarius star group, and the ram constellation), Oberon/Orion (large moon of Uranus and the hunter constellation), Sirius/Solar (Sirius is the brightest star in the sky and means 'scorcher', and Solar is realted to the sun. Very bright boys).

So for all those I just searched up 'astronomy' names and picked some that I thought the meanings could be tied in with the plot

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I use google translate alot when i come up with names, one of the best languages I've found and often use is Finnish, Tuhota, Savu (and all his brothers) are all named after words in Finnish. As for other names, i often just put letters together. Amora was simple, and reminiscent of the Italian word for love.

As for astrology, I've found this site helpful!
www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-glossary.html

[Deleted]

I use what sounds cool. Storm was: OHMYGOSHIT SOUNDS SO COOL!!!!!!! and Nico is named after a character he is modeled after. I have a character named Bandit who was named for his okapi coat, (he gets teased for it). Google translate is great for these things!

[Fierfly]

Whee! Thank-you for everyone who has contributed so far. Seriously, if I can just figure out these names I can go on with writing. In the meantime I think the twins will be called Shard and Star and Crescent for the girl character if I can't find some other theme/google-translate names by the time I finish writing.