Just include a last name. Then it's rare that your names are taken.

This game is the easiest for creating a name, you can multiple words with spaces.

Just out of curiosity, are there people who lock popular / novelty names to their accounts, then sell those accounts for real money?

thisisdustinsemail_ESO wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, are there people who lock popular / novelty names to their accounts, then sell those accounts for real money?

Maybe but that is against TOS and a good way to get perma banned.

I will have to agree with the other OP , there are still plenty of names to take , granted , famous (even if just a little) names are probably already taken , but if you wanted those , you had to be ingame second one to try to get them.

Every name I've put in in the last 3 days has been available. Maybe a lack of imagination is the problem.

Adding a last name means it's pretty much impossible not to think of a variation of the name you want.

If you add numbers (if there even allowed) I think you will be told to change it pretty quickly.

I was in EA and for the first time ever in an mmo, got all names from the characters in the book I am writing locked to my account.

Even if it wasn't possible and some were taken, I would have just added their surnames.

Google is your friend, a friend that doesn't mind being used. There are plenty of Elder Scrolls name generators that can be used in either helping you come up with a name or at least give you some ideas for some names by tweaking the spelling some. For instance, one generator I just used popped up names for a Dunmer male came up with Tidril Marendal, Tadaves Sarayn, and Aravyne Dalas. Feel free to use one of these names if they haven't already been taken or mix them up, something like Tadaves Dalas, Aravyne Marendal, and Tidril Sarayn. You could even tweak the name if you wanted to, such as Aravayne by adding the "a" before the "y" into the name. This is just some examples that will maybe help the OP or some others that read this having problems coming up with names.

dolmen wrote: »

What @ExotypeGhost said, if you want to stay lore friendly.

Or get on http://en.wikipedia.org and look up things and pull names, try this page for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Han#Eastern_Han. Pulled some names and mashed them together.

Lelang Xuantu
Nanyue Qin

Not your thing? Try this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Palaeolithic.

Vallon Chauvet
Red Lady of Paviland

My point is, finding a good unique name that is lore friendly or is just plain cool isn't that hard. I'm betting no one has used "Paviland".

But I'd like a character name that identifies with ME, not just some randomized name =\

@thisisdustinsemail_ESO work with me here.

Going by your user id:

Dustin - "probably derived from the Old Norse Ðórsteinn (Torsten)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten

That one page has so many names, nice Nord ones too. For that matter is Torsten taken?

The point is, you can come up with a name that sounds good and has meaning for you. For example:

I studied photography and still do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Caponigro - Published a book, Megaliths
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen - "type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones"

@dolmen‌ - means something to me, sounds cool to me.

Hope this helps.

I seen an Argonian named Pees on Katz

If I remember right, one of my guildies blocked some names purposely. Legolas on the EU server for example is one of them. He simply didnt want to meet a Legolas ingame, so he choosed that name for a not used alt/mule char.

Last names give you some variety. Alt characters are also accepted along with "-" and " ' "

While the typical short one-word names I usually try to nab for my characters were already taken even in early access, the fact that you can use multiple word names (i.e. last names) made it really easy to create character names in ESO for me.

Normally I use the name Lynx. That was taken, obviously, so I went with M'asad Lynx as my khajiit nightblade main. Asad means lion in arabic, the M' is a typical khajiiti prefix, and Lynx as the last name works as a sort of 'clan' name (which were used by some khajiit).

I wanted to name my daggerfall aligned khajiti templar 'whitemane' after going through the character creation, because... i made him white, and that name sounded cool. Again it was taken, as whitemane isnt all that original. I ended up naming him "Leonin Whitemane", taking Leonin from the race of cat folk in the myrrodin set of magic: the gathering cards.

Just use a little creativity, naming is a heck of a lot easier here than it was in, say, DC universe online.

I just prefer to have names that identify me in a crowd, instead of basically making names up...

For example, my Argonian Templar is named Lights-Sparks, the name of an Argonian in Morrowind.

My Redguard Dragonknight is named Trey Songz...