Favourite names for spankees

I like picking names for spankees that can have an ie sound at the end, and/or names that can be shortened to cuter nicknames.

i.e. Katie -> Katherine, Sandy -> Sandra, Beth -> Elizabeth, Trish -> Patricia

I'm really bad at thinking up names, but I do try to avoid reusing them. Most times I use a name that I both like and thinks fits the character for one reason or another. If I base a character on a real person I try to give them a name that is similar to the one used by the real person, it generally at least starts with the same letter.

Fi is right, the name we choose for a character does affect how that character is perceived. I once wrote a story to experiment with this ( The Appointment ) where both the spanker's and spankee's names were androgynous. Needless to say hardly anyone noticed, the readers decided the sex of each character according to their impressions and failed to spot the alternate possibility. This suggested to me that the reader brings far more to a story than I had imagined.

As for characters names I prefer traditional even old fashioned English ones, so you'll find my stories populated with Marys, Susans, Janes, Sallys, Johns, Davids & Henrys. OK, I did use Theo and Emmanuel in a series, which are less than common (I know an Emmanuel but not a Theo) but I shy away from the Crystals Siennas Kia-Oras etc, because as a reader these distract me from the story. I find myself thinking how pretentious the name is, so I don't want to use them in my own work.

My spankees usual don't have a name. This solves one problem, but creates another one — how do you help your readers to keep them separate from other characters of the same gender? I have a story where a nameless heroine and her sister get spanked by their mother, and there's a lot of "she"s and "her"s in that story!

I just pick names that i like. I try to avoid names ending with 'S'...like Ross, for example...as it makes it sound weird in a sentence like "Ross's hand came down hard". A friend of mine said i chose pretentious names. He asked what was wrong with normal names like Tracy and Dave! So i wrote a story with those names just to please him! Lol.

I don't see how that sounds weird. It sounds perfectly natural to me.

I write a fair amount in first person, so I guess the spankee's name in those stories is Fiona.

Names for both spankers and spankees can help considerably in establishing their character. When a young lady name "Bitsy" or "Muffy" appears in a story, its easy to imagine them as the sort of spoiled upper class twit that so richly deserves a good hiding. When someone named "Trash" or "Spike" shows up, it naturally follows that the person in question is some kind of anti-establishment punk. Then too, antiquated or foreign names can suggest setting. One hardly has to tell the reader that it's 79 A.D. when the first three characters they meet are named Flavius, Apollonia and Octavian.

My three best friends while growing up! Hey wait a minute - I haven't been around THAT long... have I?

It feels like it

Picking names who belonged to people one has known whom you think needed a good spanking.
Karen, Pam, Vickie, Danielle, Amy, Cathy, Brenda, Claudia, Renee, are among some I have used in my stories. Some names I want to use eventually include Rosemary, Traci,Tia, Becca.
On the same subject its interesting how new names crop up, old ones disappear and other old ones enjoy a new popularity. For example, never knew any Kaitlyns(various spellings) growing up - now its common. Whereas the popular name Linda of my youth is seldom seen for young girls. On the other hand really old names like Emma for girls and Jacob for boys are enjoying a new popularity.