I'm writing a futuristic story with a transmigrated male protagonist. This was supposed to be my RTW fanfic entry but decided against posting it with this tag and proceeded to write it as an Original. I've encountered a problem, though: my brain couldn't seem to let go of the name "Cheng Yan" as the protag's name from his previous life.

I've already changed the Roland Wimbledon to Adrian Miralia but I couldn't think of a name to replace "Cheng Yan", so haaalp...!

Name generators and online baby name dictionaries helped me name the secondary characters (including those for my other stories) but they never seem to help in naming my main characters.

I just need a plain and ordinary name that kinda screams "plain and ordinary"-- but not something that's too common.

P.S. No weirdly and/or aesthetically spelled or sounding names, please. Ex. Eryk

Yes, I know that it's a name that will only be mentioned in Chapter 1, BUT STILL.
SuggestionSSS are greatly appreciated.

    18 days later

    méiyísi
    But are you looking for a chines e name? If not, is suggest Daniel.

      I also don't know how to make name in Chinese language, but if you want, take a name like " little star " the use Google to translate that in Chinese.

      MasterRabbink lol. That's very creative. The names produced is unique but not too weird that they sound like alien names 👽👽👽.
      I might borrow this method of name creation too 😋.
      caffeinefocus if you want plain names, but not too common, my trick is to pick a letter that's not common and choose plain a name that started with it .
      Like a Q = Quentin, Quinn,
      Z = Zack, Zoey,
      F = Finn, Frank, Fred
      K = Karl, Kerr, Kent

            I'm bad at naming too. Look at my latest novel, the most character the start with J, R and C letters Huahahaha
            I'm a bit lazy to remember many different names :)

            Water0202020 This is what I did, lols. I've been recording the names of the MCs in the novels that I've been reading lately and eeny meeny miny moed my way through them.

              LetThereBeMagic Thanks! I'll use this next time, especially as I have this bad habit of using names that start with the letter 'A', which is also the first letter of mine, to name most of characters. This will help curb this habit, at least.

              MasterRabbink Maaan, it feels like you've been at this writing thing for years. You've already developed your own methods to aid you with the basics.

                    caffeinefocus This Rabbink is still a baby. Even this characters did not appear on the beta novel.

                    I am still a newbie author.

                        KidsNextDoor You have to see the local version. My country version had Wiro Sableng. One of the famous novel Heroes in my country). He didn't even bring parachutte to jump. Lol. His name is Wiro, Sableng means Crazy. The Crazy Wiro.

                        You don't need Peter when you got Wiro. The movie is not as crazy as the real 'Sableng'.

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