I really try hard to keep my character names from being similar. It can get so confusing trying to keep track when you are in the middle of writing out a scene...it would be horrible to have a Mark, Matt, and Matteo all in the same scene.

If I am having a hard time figuring out names I will go look up the meanings of names, like a hidden queen with the name Raina, just to have an Easter Egg kind of thing, but not always.