With all the talk about The Avengers lately I decided to do a Whedonverse themed elimination :) I only included names of characters that he created though (so no Avengers/X-men names, sorry!).
Malcolm
Inara
Zoe
Simon
River (female)
Kaywinnit Lee nn. Kaylee
Jayne (male)
Derrial
Hoban
Saffron
Buffy
Willow
Xander (short for Alexander)
Anyanka nn. Anya
Angel (male)
Spike
Drusilla
Dawn
Tara
Rupert
Cordelia
Faith
Winifred nn. Fred
Illyria
Echo
Caroline
Sierra
Priya
Victor
Anthony
November
Madeleine
Topher (short for Christopher)
Adele
Bennett (female)
Boyd
Billy
Penny
Please eliminate more than one per round (but no more than five). I just read through it again and realised how long the list is (and this is after I cut it down already).