HERE’S a great list of actual names – you can look up passengers on ships from the 1700’s and 1800’s – fantastic way to come up with character names!
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Short-Shorts: Last Names
HERE’S another little website I found while researching – it’s a LAST name generator for your characters, using US census data.
Short-Shorts: Name Your Characters
HERE is a nice little collection of ways you can come up with unique character names, by our friends at WikiHow.