What to name smol dragon girl?

I've suffered a bit of writer's block for a while now. Hoping to shake it off, I'm considering trying to write a children's fantasy story - sort of in the vein of Winnie-the-Pooh, I guess - that I thought of the moment I woke up this morning.

So I want my main character will be a small female dragon, pretty human-like in behavior, who moves into an old ruin in some fairy tale forest and starts getting to know the locals. Currently trying to think of a name for her. Things usually start to fall into place after that.

I'd rather not just make something up this time, and would prefer a name that is meaningful, not too long, easy to remember and suits a young dragon. I've considered maybe a word in Latin or something like that, but I haven't found anything much so far. If you guys have any suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.

 

Didi.
Cordelia.
Ali.
Benni.
Bellinda (Belly for short).

I don't know.

 

Pix.

 

Calida: Latin hot or fiery

Elda: Norse, fire woman

Enya: Celtic, little fire

Fia: Latin, little fire

Shula: Arabic, flame

Souzan: Persian, burning

Orinda: German, fire serpent

Ember: English, remnant of fire

 

Flare

Penny (Penelope Pendragon)

 

It's also a Swedish verb that roughly means: "to have a fire burning."

You'd think that would make a good name, but it actually sounds kinda odd.

Also a proper girl's name around here. (Short form of Sophia.) Though I actually haven't encountered it for some time so it must have dropped in popularity over most of my adulthood.

See, I like that, but it doesn't translate well into Swedish.

I think that if I went with that, things might get complicated what with the inherent implications. ^^;

 

So, after thinking it over, I've decided - at least for now - to go with Fia but to also have that be short for Fiamma. I rather like the idea of my dragon girl having a seemingly ordinary name (a common thing in children's entertainment, I believe) only to have her real dragon name be something much more elaborate.

This also matches my sinister plot to write a very elaborate and lore-heavy fantasy setting disguised as an innocent children's novel.

Thank you, Catriona and Dbesim. You win eternal glory! (I only brought one, though, so you'll have to fight each other for it.) Also thanks to the rest of you guys for participating.

 

I'm good with sharing the glory, especially with such a fine namer of names as Dbesim.

 

Uth'a?

Sparkle? (more toward light than fire)

Something ironic or prophetic?

I like Fia, too.

 

Good luck with your dragon story. I'd volunteer to be a beta reader, but I shouldn't. I gave a copy of my recent novelette to a friend's daughter, and she promptly asked me to write another. She's into dragons, so I've resolved to make a foray into dragon literature. I wouldn't want to steal from your work while writing my own.

 

I wouldn't be too worried about that: Pursuing absolute originality through subtraction is a fools errand and starves your creativity. In my experience, writing is a memetic process - you need ideas from others in order to form your own. People who complain about authors influencing each other don't understand the process and are making unreasonable demands. It's like asking you to produce a chemical reaction without using any reagents.

"Stealing" from other authors mostly comes down to assimilating and customizing whatever aspect of their stories that happen to personally appeal to you, ignoring the rest, and filling in the blanks with something better suited to your preference, style and thematic taste. And I'm going to go ahead and presume that's pretty much what you've been doing since you started writing. Eventually you absorb so many varied ideas, tropes and memes from others that it all mixes into something only you could envision. Basically, don't fear inspiration. If your writing is uninspired you probably need more influences, not less.

Besides, we creative types tend to be individualistic sorts who strive to express ourselves more than anything. Take it from an old fanfiction writer: It is hard to imitate another person's work without it all veering off into something that is far more your own thing, and that's when you're trying to do it on purpose. Even if I told you the whole premise of my story and you actively tried to write it yourself, I don't think our stories would end up very similar except in a superficial way.

Anyway, I have to actually write the damn thing before you could read it and steal all my Original Ideas™, so for now it's a bit of a moot point.

 

Adalinda
Aine
Alina
Apep
Brenna
Chumana
Chusi
Glaurung
Edna
Hydra

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I would have suggested Puffina, but this thread is 6 months old.

 

Good choice! Fia, Fiamma, sounds really sweet.

 

I've pretty much settled for Fia/Fiamma at this point. Puffina is a fun name, though, not what I would pick for the main character but I may keep it in mind if I think of a suitable character.

By the way, I currently need a name for a female fox with mystical powers. She's supposed to become Fia's best friend and companion character. I'm leaning to something nature-inspired since I don't feel a fox would have a human-style name, but I'm sorta struggling coming up with anything good.

 

Not nature-inspires, but Red is a good name for a fox, I reckon.

 

Well, descriptive names fall into pretty much the same category.

I'd be tempted to call her Ginger, except I don't think we have any equivalent to that in Swedish.

Edit: Actually, after mulling it over, I may be on to something usable now. (Still open to suggestions, though.)

 

Draconina.