Deciding on the name of my artist

The first thing i did when deciding on a name for my artist was search on google 'deciding the name of an artist'. This came up with some idea's and one I found interesting was 'Wikihow- How to choose a stage name'. This gave me the following 2 methods which helped me realise that some of the success an artist gets is from their name as it means people will recognise them, even if they don't listen to them.
Here I have tried to follow the methods to come up with different names. I feel this way of getting a stage name would be good as long as you had an interesting name to start off with.

The next thing I did was use a name generator as I thought coming up with random names and playing around with them would be a creative way to come up with a name for my artist.

I searched on google 'name generator' and clicked on the first result (behindthename.com). It then gave me options to chose from like where I would like the name to originate from and the gender I would like it to be. I searched for the name to be English and feminine as I felt there are a lot more English/American pop-punk artists.

These are the first five names that the website generated.

Once I had these names I thought it would be a good idea to mix and match the names that I thought would attract the most attention.

First names I liked:

• Bryony
• Zandra
• Lydia

Last names I liked:

• Tuff
• Rounds

new names:

Bryony Tuff, Bryony Rounds, Zandra Tuff, Zandra Rounds, Lydia Tuff, Lydia Rounds

The name I thought sounded best: LYDIA TUFF

The final thing I did was research the most popular artists and took a look at their names as many artists have stage names (e.g. Lady Gaga) to make themselves more memorable.

I searched on google 'most popular music artists right now' and one of the search results was MTV so I thought it would be a good idea to look on the MTV website at the most popular artists right now. These are some of the results.

One of the things I realised was that many of the artists have one name as their stage name which I think is because it made their name more memorable. Also some of the bands mentioned are actually pop-punk which shows how pop-punk is still in the charts, also what I  thought about their band names was that they are different like '5 seconds of summer' therefore making them memorable.

Overall, I thought the best name I came across when researching was 'Lydia Tuff' as I feel it has the potential to be memorable, but at the same time could be a real name, and many artists use their real name as their stage name like 'Taylor Swift'.