How do you name your Faerie/Little People ?

[Naruzeldamaster]

So for my story, it's all about breaking 'conventions' (not in that way, more so upturning common tropes in similar stories)
It adheres to quite a few of the more common ones, but with the caveat that it also takes self aware jabs at those too.

My Faerie are quite human like (And sometimes GIANT like, if they want to, and if their magic is strong enough notably their queen.) and so are the other magical races.
So while I do (attempt to) dot every T and Cross every I, I put my own spin on it.

For the faerie folk I'm thinking of having a mix of human names and 'classic' faerie names. (Tilly is one that came to mind for a minor one Trill is another one etc)

 

[A. E. Lowan]

We have fae a'plenty. Grow up Irish and just try to get away. This means I will mess with anything. Nothing is sacred... mostly. Fortunately, all of our fae are located in an Urban Fantasy world, so it doesn't take much of a stretch to begin pushing boundaries. We've got redcaps and jack 'o irons and succubae both fae and demonic. We have the mighty sidhe lords and we have faerie cats and garden pixies and flower faeries with intoxicating dust soft and colorful on their skin. Our angels and demons are both rooted in tradition and not exactly what they seem. Unicorns, which we haven't seen, yet, are virgin thieves. Best place to find those? Elementary school playgrounds. And the 45 types of therian shapeshifters have a complicated and often tragic origin story.

 

[ThinkerX]

Elves/Satyrs: Mostly from lists of mythological names for those beings, plus some that are made up or borrowed from humans.

Other Fey: Mostly descriptive. True names are confidential, as knowing them grants control.

Fey and certain other races are spiritual beings from one of the Etheric realms, where names are literally all-important because they define identity.

Fey in the physical realms inhabit organic 'shells' grown to purpose, hence things like Dryad's trees. Elves were an etheric race which became 'trapped' in human bodies, which they modified for longevity and magic. Satyres are a physical race with a 'casual link' to the Etheric.