Character Naming

As an Author naming your Character is an important step right after coming up with the plot. I am here to help you choose the right character name for you and your story.

Make sure your character name is Genre Appropriate. Make sure if it's a Historical Fiction novel or takes place in a real time period that the name was used then. Or if it's a fictionalized place then you can be as creative as you wish.

Just have fun with naming your character. It is after all your story.



Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Adair

Meaning: (Wealthy Spear, Owner of Many Spears, Happy Spear, Noble Spear, Oak Grove, Oak Tree, From the Oak Tree Ford, Fortunate, Powerful, the first name is derived from the Scottish surname, which is itself from the the Old English personal name Eadgar (Edgar). "My Sweet Adair", 1915 song by James F Harrison.)

Origin: (Celtic, Old English, Old German, Scottish, Gaelic)

Pronunciation: (a-DARE)

Gender: Male, Possibly Uni-Sex

I forget where I saw this a few weeks ago but I really liked the look of it. I think it might be good as a surname or a middle name. As a first name I am still on the fence a bit. I think the meanings are good.

EDIT July 19, 2016:


So I had forgotten I had already added this name until I looked it up again, lol! So here are my thoughts on the name now and I added above a few more meanings I found. I came to like this as Odair when I saw Finnick *see on list of posts* Odair in the Hunger Games movie but when Googling Odair I was shown Adair so I stuck with that as I could find nothing for the spelling Odair. The meanings are all very interesting and strong and brave sounding as the whole name seems strong and brave to me. I was interested to see that this was from the first name Edgar as it doesn’t really look alike but if you say them together you can get a sense of how they come from each other and of course I hadn’t remembered I had already had this name listed so I had forgotten the association. I think I really still prefer this more as a surname but it would be nice to see it used as a first name of a character though.

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I try to have the most accurate Meanings, Origin and Pronunciations for the names on this blog. It is best though to do research into the names you decide to use for your characters as there can be errors on my blog. Or meanings, origins, and pronunciations I have not seen thus not been able to add to this blog.





Try some of the leading Baby Name Sites and Baby Name or Character Naming books as well.


The baby name sites below are where I collect many of the Names, Origins, and Pronunciations I use on this blog.

Baby Names Sites:

http://www.thinkbabynames.com
http://www.babynamewizard.com
http://www.behindthename.com
http://www.babynamespedia.com