While continuing to avoid doing my writing, I have had a very difficult time coming up with names. On the one hand, I want people to relate to them, but on the other, they need to be reasonably random. For example, I have been struggling to find a name for my protagonist, who is Italian. I finally settled in on Dino “Dean” Cedrone. The problem is that I feel like I know a million Dino Cedrones. So, it is obvious that I should not rely on my own memory to come up with a name.
Now, there is a website, called Fake Name Generator. This site will generate a name based on certain criteria such as gender, nationality and country of origin. It not only generates a name, but a completely believable address, social security number, email address, mother’s maiden name and even a birth date.
In a matter of seconds, I have some purely appropriate names of characters in my novel:
Pantaleone Napolitani
Filomena Arcuri
Filiberto Giordano
Guglielmo Colombo
etc
Give it a shot, it helps.
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