Naming Characters

I am stuck.

What a great sign this is.

How am I going to write a whole novel when my brain can't seem to produce a single scene without knowing the characters' names? 

I know that naming your characters is important, because the name gives the reader the first impression about the character and automatically sets up some assumptions in your mind.  Are they tall, short, confident, shy, funny, serious, unique, or approachable?

When I was a teenager I would write short stories just for fun and it never seemed to be a major problem to pick the characters' names.  I simply picked names I liked.  That's simpler than it sounds, because names I liked weren't always great names.

For example, when I started writing an adventure-fantasy type story about a girl who could talk to fairies and was looking for her real father, I intended to come up with entirely unique, made-up names.  My protagonist's name was Sanalei, and the fairy queen she met up with along the paint was Laiandrea.  Do you see my problem?

First, how do you pronounce those names and do I really want to be forced to create a pronounciation guide and glossary to my book?

Second, what a mouthful!

Thirdly, what a whole lot of work coming up with 100% original syllables for three- and four-syllable-long names.

I never finished that "book," althought I am incorporating some of the same ideas into my new effort. 

I think the protagonist in my very first book will be a girl. It's just a starting point; any starting point.  I am a girl, I understand girl emotions, I can write from a perspective of a girl.

So, a girl it is.

Also, I am using the idea of various Brothers Grimm folk tales (found in this excellent, comprehensive Christmas book from my husband) where a girl/princess is displaced from one or more of her parents at birth and undergoes a journey to discover who she really is.  Annnnnd it wouldn't hurt if she encounters a love interest along the way.  Annnnnd there will be magic, adventure, romance, friendship, violence, fear...

Do I sound like I'm trying too hard to sell it?

In truth, it has to have all of those factors if I'm even going to stay interested in writing it.  My sort of unspoken (but now written) rule of writing a novel is: If I'm not interested in writing it, how can I expect anyone else to be interested enough to read it?

Does anyone want to choose a name for my heroine?  I've gone to babynamesworld.com, and I've searched for names by first letter, by origin, and by meaning.  Origin and meaning aren't quite as important to me as simply the sound and feel of the name.

(I am also a poet, after all, who basks in the sound and feel of words simply for the sake of it.)

I need a name that is feminine, but strong.  Elegant enough for a princess but simple enough for a warrior.  A name familiar enough to belong to someone alive today and that can be shortened into a nickname. 

So far I've considered first names like Valerie, Alicia, Natalie, Victoria, Melanie, Audrey, Regina.  But none of them have hit me over the head with a crow bar yet and screamed, "It's me, you idiot!"

Also, there's still the last name to consider.  Bother.

Any suggestions?