Well this is my first term here and I've only created one charecter for roleplaying.
1) I start by choosing a gender.
2) Then comes the appearance such as hair colour, eye colour, build etc.
3) After that comes the personality such as shy, outgoing, nice, vindictive etc but its never so simple. My charecters personality depends on his background and growing up atmosphere. For example if he/she never had a good relationship with his/her mother he/she would be a reserved and closed person. And the personality also depends on which house I want him/her to get into.
4)Then comes the name. Well I usually get my names out of books such as eragon or eldest. But for my school charecter I just gave him my own first name (Ameer) and since his father is a wealthy businessman like Donald Trump, so his last name is Krump.