# Character Naming **URL:** \ **Category:** Player Features & Ideas\ **Created:** [August 15, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933 "2021-08-15T14:33:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Popcorn\_Dispenser](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/popcorn_dispenser/32/273758_2.png) [@Popcorn\_Dispenser](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Popcorn_Dispenser)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/1 "2021-08-15T14:33:58Z")
Looking at the name people come up with, i think something needs to be done about the available name pool. I see 2 solutions to this. Either scrap some of the oldest names, give them a “free name change” ticket… Or unlock non English characters. I think the ASCII table includes the French characters: é è ê ç à. Maybe even make it case sensitive. It would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![QuakeGod](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quakegod/32/480339_2.png) [@QuakeGod](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/QuakeGod)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/2 "2021-08-15T14:43:21Z")
Or players could simply stop naming their toons stupid ■■■■… ---
**Author:** ![Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zhalyd_lyehin/32/358574_2.png) [@Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zhalyd_Lyehin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/3 "2021-08-15T14:58:19Z")
I have no issues coming up with names. I never had a situation with my dozens of chars where the game told me that the name was already taken. People who use garbage as names (like your name) should not have it easy to get this crap into the game. Besides: CCP has already deleted names from old chars that have not played in years to open them up again for newly joined people. However, a _real_ issue is that you can have names that are not searchable ingame. It should not be possible at all to have a char with 1 or 2 letters only as first or second name because such names cannot be searched as the ingame search requires 3 characters without a space. ---
**Author:** ![Lugh\_Crow-Slave](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lugh_crow-slave/32/441552_2.png) [@Lugh\_Crow-Slave](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lugh_Crow-Slave)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/4 "2021-08-15T15:10:05Z")
> [@Zhalyd\_Lyehin](#): > > ingame search requires 3 characters without a space. You can add a space when searching… ---
**Author:** ![Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zhalyd_lyehin/32/358574_2.png) [@Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zhalyd_Lyehin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/5 "2021-08-15T16:18:35Z")
I know. Try to search a character via the Search Bar with a name like “A BC”. The game tells you the following: ![grafik](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/4/d/f/4df28000baa43ac3aaf8090e9f3eecf4b5ca33a4.png) The same message pops up when you search this name in P&P with Partial Terms setting. Only when you set it to Exact, you get results. Problem is that you cannot change that setting in the search bar (because there are no settings) and in P&P you’d have to change settings all the time because Exact is utterly inconvenient. ---
**Author:** ![Lugh\_Crow-Slave](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lugh_crow-slave/32/441552_2.png) [@Lugh\_Crow-Slave](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lugh_Crow-Slave)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/6 "2021-08-15T16:22:38Z")
Search bar? Just auto link. ---
**Author:** ![Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zhalyd_lyehin/32/358574_2.png) [@Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zhalyd_Lyehin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/7 "2021-08-15T16:23:47Z")
Does not work. Gives the same error message. ---
**Author:** ![Lugh\_Crow-Slave](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lugh_crow-slave/32/441552_2.png) [@Lugh\_Crow-Slave](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lugh_Crow-Slave)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/8 "2021-08-15T17:38:41Z")
you need to have 3 letters in one of the two sections for instance so searching a bcd will give you a bcde aa bcd al bcd and bcd a ---
**Author:** ![Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zhalyd_lyehin/32/358574_2.png) [@Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zhalyd_Lyehin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/9 "2021-08-15T18:22:56Z")
Yes, but there are players ingame that have characters with names similar to my example. ---
**Author:** ![Shipwreck\_Jones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/shipwreck_jones/32/274382_2.png) [@Shipwreck\_Jones](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Shipwreck_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/10 "2021-08-15T18:23:29Z")
A guy once asked about this at a player event. Apparently CCP has freed up names from accounts that haven’t been logged into for a long time before. I got the impression that they didn’t seem to keen on doing it again. Maybe they got a bunch of blowback. I dunno. What I can tell you is that even though all the “obvious” names are taken, a lot of people are still managing to to come up with creative and memorable names. I’ve also managed to snap up a few OG names from biomassed characters by periodically doing searches. Come to think of it, I wonder if there’s a way to create a program that will search the ESI/API/whatever for a list of names, and tell you if any have become available due to biomasses/corp closures/whatever. That could be quite useful. @Steve_Ronuken I’m bugging you because I don’t know who else to ask? Is something like that possible? ---
**Author:** ![Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zhalyd_lyehin/32/358574_2.png) [@Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zhalyd_Lyehin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/11 "2021-08-15T18:26:25Z")
> **[Coming to EVE Online in the Rhea release on December 9th | EVE Online](https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/coming-to-eve-online-in-the-rhea-release-on-december-9th)** > > It seems strange to think we owe the discovery of this system to the capsuleers. Taya admitted as much to me at risk of her vocation, perhaps her life. I don't think we can ignore the role they played. Everything we do here goes back to them one way... > ## Old Trial Account Character Names Freed Up > > With Rhea, we are freeing over six million character names used on old trial accounts that never became subscribing accounts. Can’t believe that this was in 2014. How time flies. ---
**Author:** ![Y\_O\_U](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/y_o_u/32/284530_2.png) [@Y\_O\_U](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Y_O_U)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/12 "2021-08-15T18:50:00Z")
For a name like mine, open the people & places contact window. Within that menu is a search bar; next to it select the drop-down option ‘exact terms.’ This will allow you to search Y O U. ---
**Author:** ![Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zhalyd_lyehin/32/358574_2.png) [@Zhalyd\_Lyehin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Zhalyd_Lyehin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/13 "2021-08-15T19:02:32Z")
I know that. However, that should not be necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Y\_O\_U](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/y_o_u/32/284530_2.png) [@Y\_O\_U](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Y_O_U)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/14 "2021-08-15T19:06:39Z")
CCP also freed up all non-reserved names for Dust 514 players who responded to (now defunct) Project Nova promotional event. Lots of names still available. [https://evewho.com/character/2101988642](https://evewho.com/character/2101988642) ---
**Author:** ![Popcorn\_Dispenser](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/popcorn_dispenser/32/273758_2.png) [@Popcorn\_Dispenser](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Popcorn_Dispenser)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/15 "2021-08-15T19:13:13Z")
> [@Zhalyd\_Lyehin](#): > > People who use garbage as names (like you) should not have it easy to get this crap into the game. wth? What’s with the personal attacks? Did someone step on your ice cream cone? You got issues sir. EDIT: You don’t like the idea, fine. Constructive criticism is ok. Blasting the guy because… UHHHH ---
**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/16 "2021-08-15T19:33:05Z")
> [@Popcorn\_Dispenser](#): > > wth? What’s with the personal attacks? My guess is he isn’t attacking _you personally_, but is attacking your _choice of name_. Because seriously, Popcorn Dispenser? ---
**Author:** ![Popcorn\_Dispenser](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/popcorn_dispenser/32/273758_2.png) [@Popcorn\_Dispenser](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Popcorn_Dispenser)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/17 "2021-08-15T20:30:46Z")
The reason i picked this name is i didn’t want to use a lame excuse for a word, just to get a name through character creation. Considering what goes on in English Help, it’s at least a little relevant. It could be just a mix of phonetics. Like that guy up there. ---
**Author:** ![Lugh\_Crow-Slave](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lugh_crow-slave/32/441552_2.png) [@Lugh\_Crow-Slave](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lugh_Crow-Slave)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/18 "2021-08-15T20:35:48Z")
Im confused what’s wrong with popcorn dispenser. there are far less creative names out there. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/character-naming/323933/19 "2021-11-13T20:36:40Z")
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