I like hearing the stories behind character names, some of them are really interesting. thanks to everyone that posted.
When i started eve just over 10 years ago I had at some point in R/L been a salesman and a colleague of mine used to speak to a guy called Vartan Sarkisian. I thought the name was cool and used it for my main. I usedit withut any real thought to it, however that name apparently is quite a popular Albanian name and so i get mistaken for Albanian a fair amount.
Most of my other character names have just been made up on the spot with something that ive seen close by when creating the character