Character Names for a Book

Javad

I'm looking for character names for a book I'm writing (kind of a fantasy novel for youth set in multiple universes). I've come up with a bunch of names already, but if any of you have some further suggestions from names you've found in your name searches, I'd love to hear them. There's four parallel universes in my book, and I'm looking for different kinds of names for the people in each universe.

One is a creative, musical, poetic, charismatic inspired kinda universe:
Some of the current characters in this universe (who have names with meanings connected to music/poetry/etc) are:
- Bilani
- Sora
- Alima
- Ruana
- Liron
- Jubal
- Riordan
- Ronel

One is an intelligent, scientific, kinda nerdy inspired universe:
Some of the current characters are (who have names with meanings connected to science/the meaning=intelligence/etc):
- Perl
- Tesla
- Bertha
- Selenia Nium (aka selenium= periodic table element) (several other periodic table inspired names may pop up too)
- Cobalt
- Albert
- Mendel
- Bertram

One is an evil, dark, inspired universe:
Some of the current characters are (who have meanings connected to war/death/darkness/ravens/etc):
- Adrianna
- Brenna
- Desdemona
- Senka
- Ava Rice (aka avarice)
- Agrona
- Erlik
- Corvin
- Herrick
- Brone
- Akva
- Samael

The last universe is basically Earth, haven't really come up with the specifics for names here yet, but it'll be a bit easier since I won't be looking for the names to fit a particular theme. 

On these three lists are there particular names that you think fit particularly well? Do the names in each universe seem to go together well or are there any names that stick out in a strange way?

plunderb

These lists are mostly coherent.

Rather than focusing primarily on meaning, I would pay a bit more attention to internal consistency of sounds. They're already pretty good ? in the first list, the repetition of -or-, the oo sound, and the use of i making a long e sound tie them together; the second set has more short e and clipped consonants, so that's cohesive. If forced to choose one name from each list that needs to tie in a bit better with the others, I'd choose Ronel and Cobalt.

The third set needs the most work in this respect. I think that the endings -anna and the abundant use of the letter k are discordant, so they don't really sound like they're coming from the same culture.

Also, I would ditch Ava Rice and Selenia Nium ? too cheesy. It's one thing to use names inspired by a set of values or beliefs and another to play word games. One is for novels, the other for cereal box characters.

Good luck with your writing.

mdesmond2320

I like the names you have for the evil universe and the creative universe, but some of the names in the science one feel a bit too much like names from our universe (Albert, Bertha, Mendel).  I do like your use of the names like Ava Rice - it reminds me of Piers Anthony and Zanth's demons.  I would not do too many of them, but some are fun.

hoopduck

Sora, Perl, and Desdemona. I like these names, they seem to flow together quite well.