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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/4401
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There is a great great great resource for naming characters. It is a [random name generator](http://www.behindthename.com/random/) you can choose the influences and the origin of the name and each name has a meaning when it is generated. A real meaning. All names come from most of the cultures that inhabit our dear planet.

On the same page you can search for names according to meaning and/or sex.

Another technique for inventing names is just cutting a word you see in half, example:

I just saw the word **community** so I cut it to the piece I like the most like Munity or ity.

Then I take another word I see, for instance **answer** , and cut it, ans or wer or we.

Then I produce the name, result: **Itywé** you can always put an accent to make it fancy. But as everything don't abuse it.

Original score: 4