The "What's a good name for this?" thread

Now for something different, I need to make 4 Elite Mooks for a Code Geass RP I participate in.

I need their names to tell me and others "Rich British Teenagers".

Give me names that let me see their smarminess just in the name.

edited 29th Mar '15 2:47:38 PM by NickTheSwing

Montgomery would probably one. You could try check the list of British kings/queens or mining the Upper-Class Twit page to names

Male or female?

Henrietta Aristotle Pierce

Thomas-Randolph Spencer

Elizabeth Mary Hudson

Claudius Whiteson

Gregory James Smith

Feel free to append a few Roman numerals for added pretension.

thanks; they'll be a 4 person team, 2 male, 2 female.

I could certainly use some help in this matter. My username Laicamir was taken from a character I made up (because when it comes to names any of the meager creativity I posses dries up completely).

Recently however I have kind of wanted to change said character's name because Laicamir is (at least to the best of my ability) written in one of J.R.R. Tolkien's elvish languages and that kinda feels like cheating to me.

I have been trying for weeks now to come up with a new name but I haven't even created a name that I'm even okay with let alone one that I think would be a good replacement. A large cause of problems is that it is quite necessary that the name start with the letter L.

If anyone could give me advice or ideas for creating a new name I would be extremely thankful!

edited 14th Mar '15 9:36:09 PM by Laicamir

While I do know that Redirects Are Free, I always try to make sure the word/phrase that I want to create as a redirect is well-thought. So with that in mind, what alternative name would be good as a redirect to The High Queen (a benevolent and competent female monarch) that averts confusion with The High King (a king/queen who rules over other kings/queen but does not assume the title of emperor/empress)?

Queen Of The People? Empathetic Queen? The Good Queen NVM that redirect is taken. The Wise Queen (though that might run nto similar problems with The Wise Prince)?

edited 15th Mar '15 12:09:02 AM by MorningStar1337

What about just Her Majesty?

... That is way too generic, as it's applicable to any female monarch whose title is queen or higher, and regardless of whether she's The Good King's Distaff Counterpart or an example of God Save Us from the Queen!.

edited 15th Mar '15 11:35:16 AM by MarqFJA

Oh...it feels like it has a more positive connotation, to me.

What about something like Queen Benevolent (along the lines of Colonel Badass and President Action)?

edited 15th Mar '15 11:39:52 AM by Bisected8

@Laicamir: Well, were you after something that sounds like a real name from a real world culture? Or something completely unrelated?

I would like it to sound like you would expect from elves in a standard fantasy setting, so something from a unreal world culture I guess.

To be honest pretty much all the names I have come up with for other characters have been based along the lines of 'that looks nice written down and sounds pretty when said out loud, it will suffice'. I know thats probably a terrible way to go about this but I'm not sure how else to do it, sorry! I really know very little about making names unless I'm basing them on a pre-existing language.

edited 15th Mar '15 10:11:22 PM by Laicamir

Wait, I've got one: Her Loyal Majesty

@Marq: What about "The Noble Queen"?

"The Noble Queen" actually sounds good. If nobody has an even better suggestion, I'll use that for the redirect.

@Laicamar: Honestly? That's all I ever do to get names, too Keyboard fiddling, playing the different sounds, sometimes changing letters randomly in real names from naming websites.

Well with this one exception its worked out for me so far, I haven't come up with anything so far for this character though, hopefully I will soon though!

Poison! Plant-based, poisoner put in the victim's tea almost enough to dispatch a man his weight, and he collapses. It doesn't look like any real-world poison has the set of effects I want.

"Tropinea" sounds like the author thought "belladonna" was a trademark (and again, it's not belladonna).

I've been trying to find feminine versions of the name Norman, and so far only found "Norma", "Normina", and "Nora". Are there any others?

I'm looking for a name for Jenny Everywhere's horse.

I'm looking for a first name for a character whose main motivation is an Orphean Rescue, except a villainous version. Thus I'd like to name him something similar to "Orpheus", but it's a bit too obvious. The only direct derivative of the name I found is the Italian "Orfeo", but that is still too on the nose. Any ideas?

Nina works (it's not etymologically related, but neither's Norma/Normina). Norm could be used as a gender neutral version (like Chris or Sam).

"Norman" comes from old Germanic and literally means "North Man", so you could also make up something like "Norwif".

edited 21st Mar '15 12:23:26 PM by Bisected8

Orville? Orlando? Raphael also has some of the same sounds in it.

I need a name for the specific ability some characters in my story have, where they're capable of transforming into monsters that eat zombies. I'd prefer something that references some mythological corpse eater, that either appears as a human or was a human.

Haresvelgr is known as the corpse eater, but I don;t think he's human, as it I think you might be for two mutually exclusive concepts; a dead eating monster form mythology and a monster that Was Once a Man. I'll do some research but I don't think you will be able to find what you';re looking for.

EDIT: Would Eurynomus work?

edited 28th Mar '15 9:53:58 PM by MorningStar1337