I suck at names and I was playing Skyrim at the time so I just plucked a name from that and since my char was blonde I went with Vexx but Vexx was taking so I took away an x and added Valentino after Val Valentino ( The Masked Magician ) and got Vex Valentino, the other's before the purge were funny pun names
either from movies or a blend of both, like i made a wood elf called it Goblin Hood like.. robin hood mixed with goblin , and it use beast personality and dressed up as robin hood ha
or like John Cleese i called character John Cadwell and made it look like Cadwell
I tend to reserve a name I like...for example as soon as they started talking about Necos...I reserved a slot for that name...for the Arcanist, I've done the same.
I used to name all my characters Dest-something. I think I've used Destai as my gamertag/main toon name for like 10+ years now, and just riff on that. Eventually it felt too formulaic, and I started using UESP or name generators as a starting point for something original.