If you mean 'names used within the empire', there are as many different naming conventions as peoples and languages, so the Dara Happan Khorvendros and his wife Jelvera could be sharing a cruise with the Carmanian Lord Erindar, on the Moonboat captained by the Darjiini Berkut. Each of the Imperial Lunar Handbooks will explain naming conventions of the cultures they cover, and give examples, but the best quick source, if you have them, is to pick names from relevant sections of GRoY, the Entekosiad or whatever.
However, there are also those from any Imperial culture who actively adopt (or christen their children with) 'lunarised' names to show they dedication to the Goddess' Glory. These tend to be the sort of names you'll find in Fortunate Succession, sometimes vaguely romanic, such as Euglyptus or Quinta, but more often reflecting some Lunar hero or ruler. Broadly speaking, many but by no means all such names tend to end is -as, -os, -us for men, 'a and -e for women.
If you're interested in the historical parallel, it's with the post- Russian craze either to christen children with the first names of Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders or, more bizarrely, such created names as Vladlen (from 'Vladimir Lenin'), Pobeda ('Victory') or, later, Kapa (from 'Ka Pa Ess Ess', or CPSU, Communist Part of the Soviet Union). Me, I can't think of anything more likely to turn your child into a crazed counter-revolutionary than saddling the poor sod with a name like this, but there you go...
All the best
Mark
Mark Galeotti
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