What's in a name?

[hwango]

I mentioned at last night's gaming session my mad plan for character names these days. At some point in my role-playing career I noticed that I had an awful lot of character names that started with S or K. I decided that I should start paying more attention to that sort of thing, and now I always pick a starting letter that I haven't used yet. I've only got H, Q, W, and X to go, though H gets partial credit for having showed up in two surnames recently. I did something similar when I ran Exalted to make sure that I didn't end up with too many similar names, figuring that would make it more likely that players remembered the names of NPCs.