I Hate It When This Happens

[danalwyn]

So a while ago I came up with a female character. For reasons of randomness I named her Keigo, because I wasn't quite sure how the naming conventions would work in that particular part of the story. That was some time ago.

Over the intervening time period the names for her ethnicity have slipped toward Japanese convention (this happens with certain ethnicities for me).

Keigo is a Japanese name, but Keigo is normally a Japanese boy's name (or so my sources tell me).

So now I am presented with the option of either a) having a name that makes no sense in context, or b) changing the name of a character I've been thinking about for some time. Either way I think is going to screw me up for a bit. I hate it when that happens.

(I know I could change the name to Keiko and keep the sort-of shape of the name, but to me Keiko feels like the kind of name Westerners come up with when they're asked to make up a Japanese name. Apparently I have strange standards.)

Comments

[quicksilver_ink]

If it helps any, I did a little bit of google research and found that Keiko is a legitimate Japanese girl's name. It's a very popular one, which is probably why we both thought it sounded like a name a Westerner would use.

[danalwyn]

I should have been clear, I know Keiko is a legitimate name, it's just one I think I've heard several times before, picked by various westerners. To me it's in the same line as Sakura, a legitimate name that seems overused.

I may run with it anyway in the end.