Post History

Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/35882
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

I'm trying to refine a name for my main character and characters in general but I will be focusing on my MC for the example of this question. My question is: **What criteria would make a name hard for readers to read?**

I'm thinking of using roman and latin, and possibly gaelic names for the book.

Here's what I got.

- I really like the name Nyuna. (Pronounced Nuu-Nah) 
- Her full name (maybe): Nu'nah Lux
- Nyu to her friends.
- Little One is her pet name.

Others I have...

- Nyuna Everstar Luxanna
- Nu'nah Lucia Luinir
- Lumii Luxann
- Lu'mii Luxe
- Reina Celestios
- Nu'nah Lux

Or would that be terrible writing to put an apostrophe in there to easily break the name up into 2 syllables? **What would be criteria that make a name difficult for readers? Multiple first names, apostrophes in the middle of the name, amount of syllables, ...? The above are examples of bizarre names I have thought about that I am unsure of.**

Online sources aren't being helpful with this particular question so I thought I'd post here.

A general idea of what my main character looks like and does for a living:

Image does not belong to me. It was found on google images after 15 minutes of scrolling through pictures. It's kind of close enough.

![This is what she looks like, except she glows a lot more and changes colors regularly.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gZSuK.jpg)

Original score: 5