My character that I'm currently writing is named Tawney, which is something that plays into things later in the story. His mother's name is Robyn who is dead and his father has a large tattoo on his back of an American robin and a small sparrow in flight. His Robyn and Tawney birds.

I try to have meaning behind the names I choose. Sometimes there is no meaning but it's a name that sounds nice. And sometimes it's a name out of desperation. My monster character is half bear half hawk and his name is... BearHawk. I am all sorts of creative XD