As the topic says, what is your characters name and why?
Do you name your characters after yourself or something random?
My character was called Barry, as there is a teacher at my school called Mr. Barry and I couldn't help but laugh when he would talk to me (plus I couldn't think of anything else )
Let's hear how your came about your names!

I just picked my first name. Boring? I guess so, but fairly simple.

Lewis. 'Cause he looks like a Lewis, and I based his background off a mentioned character from Fallout 3 whose fate is unknown... until now!

Indy, because I was planning on siding with Yes Man (for Indy Vegas) and I saw Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arch the evening I created the character

Yeah, I'm one of the boring people who just uses my own first name.

Well certain names i picked were elated top there role of the people. Like my unarmed guy has the name of a famous boxer while my bos guy has the name of a famous field technologly person

Floyd Barrett. Should be obvious why.

I usually name my characters Velvet Edge. It's the title of a song by the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj2HdBwbQbM.

Ssenkrad Looc is the name of my Drow elf, from back in the early '80s when I played pen-and-paper AD&D. Read it backward.

Red Trapper, an ol' scav looking for loot and prospecting, name as the discription red hair and hunts for stuff in the wastes.

Delaque a ganger and murderer, taken from Necromunda.

Susie Springs a cowboy caravaneer, descended from a british madam in NV that made a fortune on a tribal in PA.
Name taken from the first female character name I found in Flashman and the redskins

Foxglove Lovelace a tribal hippy med head, from a tribe descended from a military hospital.
Name from flowers, and that it fits.

Red Fist, A savage psychotic raider, unarmed, melee and explosives sets traps then beats to death as many as possible.
Name it fits, though I forgot about Fisto so bad choice in reality.

Chuck Norris

So for I've always named them Sarah because.. that's my name.

Caesars Leigion: Kage DeElephant
House: Giovanni Lazereth
Independent: Gnl. Hawk
NCR: Ben Louis
Caesars Leigion: Darsie Kazatu

http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_the-9-manliest-names-in-world.html

dike Pound is my current character's name.

Usually my name and then names that I like...Meghan, Clara, Wolfgang...that's it

Jack. Because I use it when I don't want to give people my real name.

However I want to change it to Jack Skoomanova after something someone posted in the skyrim section.

Scott

My parents gave it to me a long long time ago.

I just name my PC Justin after myself, I'm not very interested in RPing as a female or as a psycho or whatever. I just do what I'd do if it was me.

My first character was Jesus, but I accidentally overwrote my save before the Dam and so had to start again with Elvis, named so because of how much Ioved I the Kings on my first playthrough. My final Legion character was Borgia.

Madocmayhem, I knew you'd have some great names and you do!

I Was Out Of Name Ideas, your username might be out of ideas but your PC's names are great!

Elvis, I haven't used Elvis yet for a name but I have used Jesus both for my FO3 guy and my New Vegas guy.
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My PC Names, hmmm, lot's of them...

Males:
Alexander - Legion
Dalton Blue derived from Texas Blue when his first game got corrupted - NCR
Di Kwan Hu - Independent
Diego - unfinished
Diesel (radier) - unfinished
Dirty Boy (raider) - Mr House
God (Dog spelled backwards, raider) - Independent
Jet (raider) - unfinished
Jesus - unfinished
Marc Antony - Legion
Mitki - unfinished
Pez (raider) - Legion
Psycho (raider) - unfinished
Riddike - unfinished
Rowdy Roland - unfinished
Scum (raider) - unfinished
Snow Flake (raider) - Independent
Stanley - Legion
Suede - Yes Man
TexMex - unfinished
Zev - unfinished
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Females:
Bouncing Betty (raider) - unfinished
Celeste - NCR
Dizzy - unfinished (she's my really stupid character, intelligence of 1)
Karla - NCR
LadyM - NCR
Misery (raider) - Independent
Mitshi - unfinished
Nasty Nan (raider) - unfinished
Omni - Independent
Raider Riki (raider) - almost done, will be independent
Saturn - unfinished (she was my very first character)
Solace - unfinished
Yumi - Independent

I test a lot of mods for modders and sometimes my saves get corrupted, hence so many characters. I'm lucky to have saves of all my games so I can sometimes go way back to Doc Mitchell's and rescue a favorite of mine like Texas Blue, he was recently revived and is playing quite well. I also have more males than females cause I like guys and really, the only reason I have as many of the females as I do is for mod testing, mostly the working girl mod which is a riot. He doesn't have it set for males yet so to test it, I have to use females.

Carlos
Miza
Elizabeth
Jane
Cherry
Jim
Bianca
Why?
Cause they're hot.
I always just use the first name that pops into my head when creating a character, I never have any ultimate agenda with it or any inspiration I drew from somewhere. I just pick 'em off the top of my head and roll with it.

Melissa.
The default name for the female human noble in Dragon Age: Origins is Elissa. I just added a m.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/MORDRED.jpg, traitor and son of King Arthur. At the Battle of Camlann, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/How_Mordred_was_Slain_by_Arthur.jpg

It's a cool name, and I like history.

1st Character's name is usually my own, Max.
And then, in keeping with the old West theme in FONV:
Frank James, Founding member of the James Gang.
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (1851-1887) - Deputized by Virgil Earp in Tombstone, Arizona to help in stopping the crimes of the Clanton Gang, which culminated with a gunfight at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in October, 1881. He died in a of tuberculosis in Colorado in 1887.
John M. Larn (1849-1877) - Both an outlaw and lawman in Shackleford County, Texas, Larn got involved in a tough vigilante group called the Tin Hat Brigade, who eventually killed him.
William Faulkner - U.S. Deputy Marshal commissioned out of the federal court in Van Buren, Arkansas serving under Marshal William A. Britton. In 1868, William arrested Amos McCurtain, a murderer and the last man to be hung at Van Buren on June 24, 1870

Jesus Christ, hehehe

Jack Shephard... huge fan of Lost and generally out to produce good karma in New Vegas.