I swear I’d have more alts if I didn’t always end up locked in mental debate with myself over what the heck a new toon’s name is.
Just “Okay got the toon all made now to just…ah hell” as I’m suddenly incapable of thinking properly
Looking at female Vulpera death knight …WHAT THE HECK DO I CALL YOU
Yes. Names are by far the hardest part of a new character. I’ve put off making a character for over a week because I couldnt settle on a name several times.
I’ve had moments where I think up a name randomly as I’m trying to sleep. So I get up and quickly type it before I forget it.
That happened when I was trying to figure out a name for the father of my Tiefling in DnD. Suddenly the name “Dierhest” popped into my head. You say it like Dearest.
yessssss
most of the time if i really love a name , i reserve it on my partner server.
other than that i have to reach out to tolkien or other fictions. Kresley Cole is a good one
My wife has waited a couple days for me to come up with a name. I’ll message her with about 20 names while I’m at work just thinking about them. She’ll veto them all and the ones I liked are already taken.
So I just end up saying screw it and doing something generic.
All of the characters I’ve played in dnd just stole names from my WoW characters. None of my dnd friends play WoW, so they dont know I’m being lazy.
I have a trial account that I use to reserve names I like on my main server.
My Tiefling has two names. His real name and a name he gave himself like Tieflings are known to do. So I was double dumb and slow to think up stuff lol
see, so its a thing.
i have changed my names before, and have to go back and get the name
I’ll usually just keep cycling through the name generator until I see something I like as a base then I’ll make slight adjustments.
The name generator once suggested Pissandra for my character, so its generally not to be trusted.
Was about to write the same thing. Just did this with a Pandarian Priest. I removed an extra syllable at the end and wala.
Dang, should have used that 
True. I usually cycle through quite a few until I find something that works.
It also gave me Servolt for a mechagnome which is one of my favorite names, so its a mixed bag.
Also has to ponder a covenant if I made this new toon
…AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Brain y u no work?!
I tend to not have AS MUCH of an issue with names on races that don’t use IRL naming conventions.
So… Human (and by association Worgen)? Awful. Pandaren? Awful.
Pretty much anything else ends up being “fantasy” enough where you can fudge things and not have it stand out as “wrong” or “trying too hard to be unique”.
Dwarves seem like they should fall into the problem pit, but for some reason don’t seem to. Maybe just not popular enough, idk.
Gotta be creative like me!!
Heehee variations of Awkward go BRRRR
I oft just look up normal names from various cultures and create derivations thereof until I get one that isn’t taken.
On occasion I will create one that is unique, frequently muttering jumbles of nonsensical words aloud until I catch a string of letters that seems apropos. Nihil novi sub sole, of course, but I try.