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I use a mixture of inventing names, looking through lists of name in the desired language, looking at meanings of names and using random generators to get ideas.

I’ve got one main character whose name keeps changing spelling, and another in the same story who had a different name for two third of the draft. And I cringe whenever I see that name.

behindthename.com is extremely useful, as is fantasynamegenerators.com

It’s not just for fantasy names. There’s a 20th century English name gnerator that I’ve found quite useful, and all manner of others.