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Joined: 3/13/2011
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http://www.rinkworks.com/namegen/ http://www.seventhsanctum.com/index-name.php
Those are two of my favorites. Seventh Sanctum has a bunch of generators that can help you come up with names for ships, taverns, etc. in addition to the character names.
There are also a myriad of baby name sites where you can search by gender, nationality, meaning, etc. My favorites of those follow.
http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names http://www.babynames.com/ http://www.parents.com/baby-names/
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Joined: 3/16/2011
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http://baby-names.familyeducation.com/
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Joined: 3/13/2011
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Thanks!
Here's another one. This one generates first and last names together so it's pretty fun.
http://thenamegenerator.com
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Joined: 4/3/2011
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These are exactly what I needed this morning. Thanks for sharing them!
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Joined: 3/13/2011
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My go to sites for names are:
Popular Baby Names by Year
http://www.babiesonline.com/articles/babynames/most-popular.asp
http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names
To learn meaning and culture
http://www.babynames.com
http://surnames.behindthename.com/
To make up a name
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
http://translate.google.com/#
If I have no idea, or the name doesn't matter to me, Seventh Sanctum
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/
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Joined: 3/13/2011
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Thanks for those, Marcie. I'll have to check those out next time. Love Seventh Sanctum. One of my go-to naming sources.
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Joined: 3/13/2011
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Here's one I just saw tweeted under the #bookcountry hashtag:
http://oobleck.org/steam/
It's a Victorian/Steampunk name generator. You can select which gender, which class in society, how many to generate, and for some names whether to show extensions, such as initials.
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Because I write about a specific part of America, I use one of their local (about 15 years old) telephone directories. Mix and match first and last names.
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Joined: 3/14/2011
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I've recently started naming walk-on characters after a celebrity they look like "Felicia" for a character who looks like Felicia Day or "Eva" for an Eva Mendes lookalike. I wouldn't do it for my MCs, because I have some strong beliefs in names needing to mean something for the main and secondary characters, but for a taxi driver (if he must) have a name, it might be "John" for John Travolta. 
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Joined: 6/7/2013
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@Noelle--this is too great--I love it! It sounds like it makes it easier to remember what the heck you named those walk-on characters, too (I struggle with that).
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