New Player with a challenge finding a unique name

[Puskara]

Howdy folks! I'm a player who started on Day-1 and played for 3 years. I never made it to the end-game because I spent most of my time exploring and questing.

So I am psyched to come back to Classic EQ but I hit a wall. I cannot get a unique name on Blue. I tried a bunch of names (~15-20) and they were all rejected (Nothing rude or inappropriate, presumably they are all taken). I was curious if this is a known problem. I saw the post about Blue passing 1,000,000 characters created and am wondering if there is some already announced strategy that the devs are employing to deal with the possibility that the list of names that can be easily spoken/spelled may be dwindling? If there is one I cannot find it.

Obviously I can create a character with a unique name it is just that I am not sure I want to resort to something like Flrynykbdllwyhn in order to play. =)