I tend to use the names of a bunch of Pookies (stuffed lions (stuffed with donuts)) that we have as well as some names from characters I played in online RPGs (live chat games) many eons ago.
Lothar (fighter type), Gustav (always a thief type), Manfred (usually some sort of mastermind), Spegley (all around great lion), Ma'eldra, Lyrra, Rasil Bathbone (nickname Ratter), Hiroshi, Toshiko.
My husband and I wrote a name generating program years ago (in Pascal!) for when I was running my own online RPG and might need names for NPCs. It came up with some interesting names.
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