So we have a pet/familiar names thread and a "punny" names thread, but I didn't see just a flat out "Best" character names thread.
For my offering, I give you our Fighter/Barbarian Gestalt run by one of my players. When he made the character he hadn't come up with his personality or story yet, so when he gave me the character sheet the name on it was "Pending", and he told me he'd come up with something else later.
First session rolls around and he pulls up the revised character sheet and shows it to me, and I notice he never did change the name...
It's become pretty funny that whenever someone asks him what his name is he has to reply "It's Pending".
"Pending what?"
Sadly, I couldn't get him to make his first name Patent.
A friend of mine played an animated, disembodied hand in a long ago Torg campaign named Dexter.
I played a halfling wizard (evoker) briefly with the name Mojo Dingleberry, who had a weasel familier named Tweek.
Needless to say, Mojo was a bit of a pyromaniac...
In 3.5, I once played an Astral Deva/Knight who went by many names and was celebrated by many races...
To the Elves, he was known as Aeldeth Firryl:Eternal Knight, Dark Stalker.
To the Dwarves he was called Delthic: Iron Champion.
The Dragons named him Malsvir Gixustrat: Evil Disembowler.
But his most widely reknowned name was that name which the Humans gave him: .
As it turns out, he did refuse to make his first name Patent.
Pending sounded better, so Patent is now his last name.
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When I was in high school a friend of mine played a character who carried a bunch of pigs around in a portable hole. They were used as trap-triggerers, bribes/distractions for monsters, an emergency food supply for the party and whatever else we could think of. I can't recall that character's actual given name since nobody ever called him by it; he was known to the game world by the pseudonym "Oinkleby".
For my own PCs, I tend to give them kind of normal-sounding names for the most part. For that matter, I pretty much always play humans.
Thinking back over the past campaingns I've played in (from most recent and working backward...)
Thyria the White (Pathfinder) human female barbarian/sorceress (boreal bloodline), set in Golarion.
Baron Drax von Stryker (D&D 3.5) human male fighter, homebrew world.
Lyn Windsong (D&D 3.5) human female rogue/sorcerer/arcane trickster, homebrew world.
Paul Ambrose (Amber Diceless Role-Playing) Prince of Amber
Fenwick Firebrand (real name Carl Fenwick) (D&D 3.0/3.5 - we converted when 3.5 came out) human male fighter/wizard/eldritch knight, homebrew world.
Special Agent Deborah Crawford, F.B.I. (GURPS: Espionage) human female FBI agent (early 2000s New York City setting)
Joanna Sparrow (D&D 3.0) human female ranger/demon hunter (homebrewed prestige class), homebrew setting.
Lt. Arthur Tillinghast, RAF (ret.) (Call of Cthulhu, 1920s Boston)
The Catman (Champions) male super-hero (think a cross between Batman and Spider-Man, with a feline theme) (late 1990s Chicago)
Duke (D&D 3.0) human male paladin, inspired by Old West movies, set in Greyhawk.
Kestrel (D&D 3.0) human male druid/sorcerer/mystic theurge, homebrew setting
Anton "Tony" Bednarov (GURPS: X-Files) Czech-born, American CIA agent turned U.S. Marshal (late-1990s setting)
Lady Daria of Aylesport (AD&D 2nd Ed.) human female enchantress, homebrew world (and the last evil-aligned character I played-- back in the mid-'90s)
Cynthia Mulroy (AD&D 2nd Ed.) human female fighter (swashbuckler kit), homebrew world
Chrylantril the Wanderer (AD&D 1st/2nd Ed-- I converted when we switched editions) female elf fighter/wizard
Haladir (AD&D 1st Ed) Male elf fighter/cleric. The character I played three years in high school back in the 1980s.
In a home brewed game I had a Fetchling fighter that specialized in sniping and doing absurd damage with high accuracy (4d8+11+1d6 as a standard action with a homebrewed weapon (Gauss cannon: 2d8, shot through cover)). Anyway, his name was One of Five. When asked what happened to the other four, I just smiled.
In Carrion Crown I had an Inquisitor of Gozreh, his name was unimportant but he had a giant scorpion animal companion. You have to wait until you can increase vermin animal companions int score to 1 before you can give them feats or even train them at all. So essentially, he had a feral giant scorpion following him around out of some strange sense of alien affection. I named it Sweetums and had it terrorize the drow on occasion.
You rang?
No me....
I can't decide....