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[Lasairiona]

Lasairiona: Pronunciation: (lah sa REE nah) Gaelic and Celtic.  Old Irish name meaning "blush of wine," or "flaming wine," from lasair "blush" or "flame," and fhiona "wine."

I used the name for the mother of a character in a story I had written. I just thought it was pretty and unique.

[Alizabeth]

Alizabeth followed me from WoW, where it was based off the slightly changed spelling of Alizebeth Bequin.  Alizebeth was a character in the 40k trilogy 'Eisenhorn.'  She was also soulless.  I figured this described me as well.  Vea came from my guild that I was running called Vi Et Armis: Latin for "with force of arms."  So, I just made Alizabeth's last name Vea.  Ameriya, my first actual character in Eve and a name that I use often was the town in Iraq where I got my first kill.  (Technically Al-Ameriya).  Genevieve is from 'The Vampire Genevieve.'  Other names, I make up on the spot.

[ArtOfLight]

I tend to make up names based on the way I want the character to be received. It's weird and hard to explain, but certain names trigger psychological responses from people upon hearing them.

For example, for most people, the name "Benedict" makes us immediately think of an upright, gentlemanly type of individual. Proper, probably educated and likely rich. Conversely, the name "Bob" makes us think of someone far less proper, likely your "every day" kind of guy, down to earth and probably pretty content with that.

The name Malcolm, as I chose it, tends to be a strong name and associated with leaders and revolutionaries. It is also shortened to "Mal" which means "trouble maker." The irony of having Malcolm be not a revolutionary and typically not a trouble maker was enjoyable.

The name Khross is a phonetic alteration of the word "Cross" which I actually first used on a Paladin character for Dungeons and Dragons. In this case, it was applied to Malcolm because I planned to play Malcolm as "carrying his cross" regarding the burdens he endures (upholding honor, integrity, fighting for the State even when he disagrees with it, etc) and he'd likely get crucified on that cross at some point.

[Saede Riordan]

Saede I pulled from the Northern Regional Sebiestor word 'ink.' When I started developing her as a character concept I went over all the stuff I'd written for NRS to see if I could find a good sounding character name off of that, and Saede stuck out at me. Also I really like the ae letter combination.

Riordan is fairly common surname, and I liked the sound of it, and thus went with it.

[Samira Kernher]

The last name of Kernher comes from the Sebiestor name generator in-game. The generator gave the name of Mernher; I then replaced the M with a K.

The first name of Samira is an Arabic name. I went with Arabic because I've always gotten an Arabic vibe from the Amarr, particularly in their aesthetics. I wanted to visibly show the cultural mesh here, with a Minmatar surname and an Amarrian first name. The name itself means 'entertaining companion'.

[Ché Biko]

I named Ché after 2 people that shared defining traits with my character: revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guavara and anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. And the meanings of the word "che" were also a reason why I chose it.
I sometimes find it a bit cheesy, but so far only one person openly guessed which persons contibuted to Ché's name. And I think it sounds like it could be a Gallente name.
Although, I made it a bit of an (inside) joke that most Gallente mispronounce his name as "Chez / Sjay" instead of "Ché / Tsjay" and thanks to the fact that the capsuleer callsign can not contain an "é", most capsuleers pronounce it as "Che / Tsjeh".

[Cynthia Gallente]

Cynthia comes from someone very special in my life, I like to think about her often~
Gallente.... well... that's the lack of creativity.

[Lyn Farel]

I named Ché after 2 people that shared defining traits with my character: revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guavara and anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. And the meanings of the word "che" were also a reason why I chose it.
I sometimes find it a bit cheesy, but so far only one person openly guessed which persons contibuted to Ché's name. And I think it sounds like it could be a Gallente name.
Although, I made it a bit of an (inside) joke that most Gallente mispronounce his name as "Chez / Sjay" instead of "Ché / Tsjay" and thanks to the fact that the capsuleer callsign can not contain an "é", most capsuleers pronounce it as "Che / Tsjeh".

Well I guessed the "Che" part at the beginning (especially with the socialist taste here and there), but I didn't know for Biko.

[Sepherim]

"Sepherim" came from the randomeness in my mind. I needed a spherethiel (elven language in Shadowrun) for "dagger" which was my nick everywhere in internet back then, so I came up with something that "sounded elvish" (no, not Elvis, that's anotherguy!) and that was Seph. It became my common nickname since, and never again used dagger.

It was only a lot later that I found that it actually does mean something, in the Quabbalah, the Sepherim are the circles which compose reality (Netzaj, Keter, etc. there's ten of them, including the Malkuth which comes in EVE's rocket launcher), each of which is a Sephiroth (yup, the name the bad one in Final Fantasy VII takes). I loved the meaning of the word, so it only made me happier and confirmed the nickname.

Since then, I've used it everywhere, in all my chars. Actually, old-seph wasn't named Sepherim as I didn't think it sounded as an amarrian name, but Vorten Kyrstner, he took the name as a handle when he became pod pilot. It made no sense to repeat the story for new-seph, so I decided it did sound amarrian, and added the Catillah as second name. No story for Catillah, just sounded nice.

[Utsukushi Shi]

Shinayin Naerth: Back in the old days I started RP with AD&D. One of my characters was a blind drow elf priestess of Ellistrae. I really liked where her story went and so I have often used it when making a female character in video games. Also it kinda worked for me with the way Intaki looked.

Souchek Lehman: My original motivation for Souch was to make a combat toon because mining is often boring. From the beginning though I had a good sense of his story and how it would interact with Shin's. I went back and forth on more or less asian sounding names and settled on a half-formed idea that his family had adopted the name of a foreign man with some connection to their history. I found this entertaining since I had already decided that Souch was secretly somewhat of a rabid Achuran nationalist, his name probably drives him nuts. Deciding all this I just took the name of two characters from one of my favorite book series, Chung Kuo, and mixed them together. Stefen Lehman, an albino orphan that kills his way to the top of the Triads becoming the White T'ang, and his most faithful man Souchek, a low-rank criminal that sees the strength in Stefan and follows him tell their bloody end.

Gen Roku: According to the box of incense I got this name from it means Returning Spirit in chinese. According to the old Japanese sculpter at work it is also an era in Japanese dynasties. I started using it a long time ago as my xbox live gamer tag. I thought it was appropriate for a medium where you die and return constantly lol. I have used it all over for everything since.

[Ayallah]

Ayallah's name is pretty straight forward, eye-all-aah is how it is pronounced meaning daughter of god.  Like Samira, I thought Amarr had unexplored Middle-East/Muslim avenues. 

[Anslol]

Anslo is a name I pulled out of my ass, same with Tetua.

I don't know why I'm good at making up names that are easily turned into puns.

It sucks, yo.

[Gwen Ikiryo]

Gwen, of course, comes from the Welsh word for "White" or "Holy". Which is supposed to be a reference to her generally pretty "pure" attitude compared to other Capsuleers, at least at surface level.

Her last name, Ikiryo, is a type of Japanese spirit that is sort a fragment of a living persons soul, seperated from their body out of hatred or discontent for someone or something - A living grudge, in a sense of the word. Which is supposed to be sort of a reference to the kind of weird duality of a Capsuleers existance... Something sort of hateful and alien, yet born from an individual who is still alive and living as a normal person - And in the long term, damaging to both.

However, the first character of the word as it's written in Japanese (生) can also be read as "naive" or "innocent", which goes back to the above. That's why I picked that type of spirit in paticular.

In a meta sense, the use of a western forename and an eastern last name is supposed to sort of embody the awkward clashing conflict Gwen faces as a result of being of mixed ancestry, as well as being brought up in two different cultures (though I've sort of phased that second aspect out since I created her).

[Syagrius]

James was my fathers name, Syagrius, was the last Imperial Roman official in Gaul, his defeat by King Clovis I of the is considered the end of Western Roman rule outside of Italy proper.

[Lyn Farel]

From the famous actor.

No actually I had to be pointed out that the name was close to the actor's name to notice it.

I just wanted a quite common first name, but yet a little aristocratic or old, with a simple and fonctionnal last name, but again that could be associated with a Holder status (if at the creation I had no clue of what was a Holder or if I wanted to see my character to be one).

Lynn means lake or pool in celtic and old gaelic, which fits.
Lyn (Llewellyn) means lionlike/leader in welsh, which does not fit at all.