We have to make characters all the time. Sometimes our own characters, and sometimes just NPCs we meet only once. So that's why you might use a random character name generator. I found this great list of lots of different types of name generators here:  
[url=http://www.ongoingworlds.com/blog/2014/11/character-name-generator-list/]http://www.ongoingworlds.com/blog/2014/11/character-name-generator-list/[/url]

There's links to genre-specific and country-specific names, which is really useful.