A rose by any other name would mind blast as frequently
Dinaer tagged me for the “how did your characters get their names?” meme.
Masako – my original level 60 character, a female orc warlock. I named her after a Magic: The Gathering card from the Kamigawa block called Masako the Humorless. How terribly Megan of me, right? I stacked crit and raided MC as destruction, boy was I terrible.
Synth – female human warrior. At some point I decided I’d name all my characters using dictionary words, usually by browsing the dictionary.com word of the day archive until I found something cool-sounding and appropriate. I may or may not have been going through an eighties music phase at the time.
Theory – female human paladin. This one I picked for amusement – at the time, Paladins (ret in particular) were not a particularly strong class. I was tempted to change my warrior’s name to “Practice”, but I was too attached to her by then.
Fresh – female night-elf rogue. This was actually my first character on live (the Ner’zhul server IIRC) and she was originally named Araya which was an elven name from a pen and paper campaign during my teenage years. I abandoned her around 40-something in that river full of amicable turtles in Hillsbrad foothills, and eventually transferred her to my main server for a fresh (!) start. She is currently my main, insofar as I will ever commit to one.
Cavalier – male dwarf priest. Another dictionary-browsing one; I thought the listed definition of “Given to haughty disregard of others” sounded appropriately dwarfish and it abbreviates nicely. Plus, I do have a somewhat cavalier attitude towards healing. Priests have too many other fun spells to cast!
Overall I’m pretty happy with the names, though I suppose you tend to grow into whatever you end up choosing.