How do people make their names?

I looked up into the sky and said "ahhhh my eyes"
then thought hey why not pick the sun :P

wierd part just now as I was typing that first sentence the lyrics in this song were almost the same at the exact time I typed it (maybe it was just my psychic abilities)

right at 2:08 in the song is the part im refering to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46izZS3qT4E&feature=related

make a stupid name ingame look aound mobs name and steal a good one i stole ghoul from venemous ghoul cos it tended 2 kill afk ppl in west gate of poisen cos they are a few agro mobs u start o hate at low lv and now that u knew if u steal my ghoul name ill kill u b:angry ghoul ish mine b:laugh

this was my 1st char on RT server and was watching/reading an anime/manga i found funny and later found it was the name of the greek goddess of justice/innocence and purity b:surrender

I choose names form my Tribe's language:

Widoktadwat - my given name, it means Community minded, gets along with all
kowezi - old man Mystic
shkote_nsi - fire spirit - archer
mbishkoman - water knife - tideborn assassin

Also from books I read:
Bromsen - Cleric - I was really into the Inheritance series at the time, Eragon was Brom's son
NestFreemark, ErisaBellru, KimberBoh, OolishAmenah (Two Bears) - All from Terry Brook's Shanarra books.

Lets see. I came up with my wizzies name, Shoyahz. She used to be an original character of mine, but recently, I've lost interest.

Several of my other characters:
Shohii-Seeker
Sholoe-Veno
Shoyen-Sin

are based on the same naming pattern and it keeps the need for different nicknames low. Everyone calls me Sho or Shoy.

I also have Akax and FlyingSavior, my clerics. Not really sure how I came up with Akax's name. I might have been pushing random letters on the keyboard.

FlyingSavior was named by my cousin.

Lastly, there's Cresti, my bm. My most favorite name cause it's so simple. Also one of my original characters names.

easy, every name i use has something to do with plants or flowers.

Fiorello is an italian name meaning flower- wizard, archer
Ecotone- bm
LeafCatcher- psy
Petalorum- cleric
Meadowsweet- sin

etc. etc

My first character's name was ISuckAtPvP, and from there i made some spin-offs ISuckAtPvE and this one, ISuckAtPvM

I grabbed the 3 year old's pull stringy alphabet toy, you know, the one with the little arrow that spins around and points to a new letter to pronounce...almost guaranteed to be original, hehe. b:laugh

hmm Ninna comes from a vampire movie i saw looong ago and the xxx's just means the same as xoxo in belgium here thought plp like to tease me for it as a pervy thing Dx ( yea when i made it my first thought wasnt that it could come out pervy ;x)

After I pick a look that feels appropriate for a character I'm about to create, I pick a name that feels appropriate for that look. This usually results in names that are taken, including those which I thought for sure would be original. b:surrender

So I start playing with alternate and close-enough sound-alikes until I find one that isn't taken. Sometimes that playing around results in something that sounds better than what I originally had in mind. b:victory

This name (Simi_P) is my favorite character's name from my favorite series of books -The Dark-Hunters:)

My cleric's name just seemed like an elf's name; same for my archer:) (Chrystabelle & Nianne)

My BM's name is Zero_The_Hero; from the Black Sabbath song.

My Assassin's name is a show of contempt to the MMORPG I played before this that totally ruined my sin's build on that game with their constant nerfing of skills (NerfMeB....) sounds like witch with a B instead of W. ( O.T.-Be glad PWI doesn't do THAT every time they update the game!!)

And my Mystic's named after my favorite character from The Wheel Of Time books. (Moiraine_A_S)

My fiance is really creative with his names; he has a thesaurus that he uses to come up with things he wants the character to represent. Don't ask! LOL

I needed a name for a Drow. A rpg name, even with last name. So i went lazy and googled myself a Drow Namegenerator.

One which came up was Ssapintrayas Auvritlar (there should be a ' in the last name somewhere but i dun remember where it was lol).
Since i took that name for a mage i somehow came attached to the name and i feel it kinda fit mages. Since then all my Wizards/Mages are named like that.

Marelia, my Clerics name.
That one came from the italian word for ocean (mare) and i added something which makes it sound like a name not just a word. She always gets whispered in italian where i have to convince some people who spam me in italian that i realy do not speak any italian and i basically could only communicate with "ciao". Or others totaly think i MUST be from spain and even if i tell them 10x im not they still totaly think im from there. o.O

Junivera, is my Seeker. Originally Juniver, i made that name up when i saw June as name in a Vampire PC game i played. I took it for an insane Malkavian Vampire chick with a small faible for **** clothing...the best armor she wore was a full leather suit which had written "exploit me" on the back XD

For most other names i usualy alter existant word like luminescent and turn them into stuff like Lumen (my BM :P).
Or i type random stuff on my keyboard then add letters and remoove some untill it has the right "sound".

Like: sfjpowf would turn into Selnjowe.
iosfhlaalc, hm id turn it into Ioshaal.
And so on, just faceroll the keyboard then make the randomness a name. b:laugh

Well, I came up with Synsae by looking at the words written on my hockey stick "Easton Synergy" I think you can figure it out from there

as for my alts...

Onbekend I came up with after asking some fellow faction members, who were dutch, what 'nameless' was in Dutch... cause I just could not think up a name... so they gave me the answer but they said "Onbekend" which means "Unknown" would be better....

Corseque got her name because she is suppose to be a spear BM... and a Corseque is a type of spear

Sablass I just had a brain ****... the expansion had just come out and I was in a rush to play it and all the names I thought of were taken... took Sab from Sabre and Lass from Cutlass

I actually never have a hard time comin' with names, and mostly are the names I pick not in use. I mostly pick Asian styled names or something that makes it sound magical.

Never did list my alts...b:surrender

Xareena is my assassin's name. I wanted to use Xena, but someone on my server (a veno I think) already jacked that name. So I just used the first three letters from my barb and merged it with the name I wanted.

Klio is my BMs name. Named after my cat. b:cute

Nephrose is my seeker. That name I had actually been saving for a while. It's the name of a planet in Mass Effect 2, and I thought it was pretty cool when I saw it, so I just stickied a mental note to my brain to save it for an alt.