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.



Saturday, January 21, 2012

Orlando

Meaning: (Famous Country, Renowned Land, Fame of the Land. City in Florida. Variant of Roland. Mostly literary and late 19th-century use. Literary: Virginia Woolf wrote a gender-bending fantasy novel "Orlando". Shakespeare's play 'As You Like It' (1599) has an Orlando (the lead).)

Origin: (Spanish, Italian)

Pronunciation: (or-LAHN-doh, ohr-LAN-doh)

Gender: Male

I was watching a movie the other day, Diary of a Mad Black Woman and there was a guy on there named Orlando who was played by actor Shamar Moore (Criminal Minds). He is a very handsome black man. Any way I got to thinking about real life Orlando's (notably Orlando Bloom) and fictional ones. It seems that a lot of them are hot. I'm not saying that the name made them that way. I am more saying the men made the name Orlando to be associated with handsome men. Though today many will think of Orlando, Florida. Either way I like the meaning and look of this name.

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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