Interesting names you've given characters

Some interesting names for people in my current WIP include: Vatz, Don Sier, Imani, Eran, Tinker, Sera, Knox

Some for creatures include: Kurki, Vemosa, Naukri

In my current WIP my MC and her siblings are named after puppets. There's Poppy (which sounds like puppet), Vince (who sounds like Ventriloquist) and Spindle.

My last completed MS was a weird space opera set in an era where humans are spread to the stars and don't even remember where they're originally from, so Everyone had weird names.

The name that was the most extra was probably Aryace-Das-Shipuur, though I don't quite remember the spelling at this point.

Some characters were from a caste of peacekeepers covered in exoskeletons, and they tended to have numbers like "four-thirteen" as names, but one of them was just called Scarred One.

I had an idea for a mad lord born of a diseased ship. He would have been called the Grand Fuckler. Maybe I'll make use of him if I ever get it published and get a chance to write a sequel.

Heh. Weirdo names are kinda my jam. I can't even name a modern day character without researching the meaning of the name, which gives even my characters with ordinary names a secret meaning.

I think one of my favorite sets of names came from a secretly extraordinary farm family: Harold Silver and his girls Kessie-Ann, Delkie, and Maysa-Sue.

I once named a character Dunderland, then I used his name as the title of my book and people thought that the fantasy plane he was on was called Dunder Land.

The name was changed.

What a fun thread this will be! I'm eager to go back and read others' answers. I used to keep a word doc of names from baby-naming databases: the ones with the name, the origin, the meaning, and the intended gender. Then, I wasn't writing enough, I felt, to keep using it. I got frustrated and I think I may have del--no, I just remembered I still have it in both locations I save writing stuff. The last two works I've been serious about, though, haven't had names from that database used. The names were carefully picked and I still think they're very pretty: Clodagh, Grainne, Noelle, Irina and Nastia are names I've really liked. I'm eager to use the names Grainne and Noelle in a project still, but I have no ideas yet.

I like names that are different.
Like Kayla, or Kaela - shortened to Kae...and then you've got the full name of a charater...Kae.

A character in one of my stories runs and wins a half marathon. I named him Vicente Estrada which roughly translates and victor on the road. Just for fun.

There are two neighboring towns to my community named Bernard and Fillmore.

My WIP has a small town Iowa feel so one of its main characters is named Bernie Fillmore.

Raven Castevets, Lord Gragynhorn. All one name (or rather name and title), from a story I'll never write but still one of my favorites.

My current WIP has a lot of religious elements, and there are two separate versions of the Christian god, so to alleviate confusion (and also to exemplify my MC's sense of humor), I've had my MC name them. One is essentially the god of the new testament, and the other is the god of the old testament, so they're named Newt and Ollie, respectively.