coffee enthusiast

I don’t really have a method. Most of the names I use mean something, even if they only mean something just to me. Sometimes the names describe a character in some way (it happens in real life, too: it’s called nominative determinism).

Sometimes they just seem like the name someone like that would have.

Often I’ll have a letter in mind, or syllables, and I’ll spend a long time trying every name I encounter, sometimes every word I encounter, before I decide on the actual name.

(Sometimes I’m lucky, and people turn up in my head with names attached.)

Given that you are free to choose any name you want, why not find something simple that describes you now, or describes how you want to be, or is simply a beautiful word? Remember that you’ll have to spend the rest of your life spelling it to people if it’s too complex. 

(I suspect if I were starting from scratch I’d also decide whether or not I wanted to be findable by search engines: if I don’t, I’d pick a common surname, not a unique one.)