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

Mindy Reed?

I would like a real name, but something meaningful.

cool idea, I might use that!

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I like Mindy Reed, too. Shows the pun without being obvious.

Another one: Martel Albert (Tell All Could also flip it to Albert Martel

edited 20th Feb '18 11:12:38 PM by sgamer82

Is Martel a girls name? I also don't get the pun.

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To said the idea was the characters was they're a telepath who says what they read. So tell all, like a tell all book.

I think it's a girl's name, and a check on Google seems to confirm this, but thinking on it the first time I remember running into it was a male character in The Elenium

edited 21st Feb '18 6:02:17 AM by sgamer82

I find more results for "Martel" as a family name than for it as a given name. Make of that as you will.

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I really like the 'Mindy Reed' name for the telepath, so I'm going to go for that one. But what about the ghost boy?

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Andrew Tott ?

Andrew from the old Greek "andro" meaning "man"

Tott from the German "tot" meaning "dead"

together that would mean "dead man".

I really like the first name. The second one might take some getting used to, but it could work!

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What would be good names for:

• A nanoworm designed to infect and kill Theriomorphs during the Human-Theriomorph War.
• Second, a official name and a codename for an US Senate Tribunal that is a proxy cover agency commissioned by the criminal terrorist organization, Megiddo via Vice President Joseph C. Dawson to investigate and capture escapee Theriomorphs from Megiddo that is a threat to them.
• Finally, a organization founded on what remains of Megiddo during the Human-Theriomorph War aka the Great Holocaust to combat Theriomorphs. The name is supposed to have a official name and its codename based on the dark theme of fighting monsters with robots and werewolf references

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Lucas Perry. Or any other "per" name you can think of (Perkins, Percival, etc)

That was just the first thing to come to mind and, depending on when he was born or died, offers some milage with him either lamenting or trying to make a big deal out of being named Luke Perry, and not understanding why nobody finds this a big deal.

edited 23rd Feb '18 6:52:49 AM by sgamer82

He died about a year or so before the present day

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I need a name for a Government Agency of Fiction that is the result of extensive reorganization of the modern UK's community of intelligence agencies, moving them all to a single umbrella organization (the aforementioned GAoF) that exists as an independent department of the UK government answering directly to the Prime Minister through a dedicated cabinet-level official. The name should include the word "intelligence" along with an appropiate adjective that starts with the letter M, so that I can get away with naming the subordinate sections of the agency in a "MI#" format while dispensing with the word "military" in the original acronyms.

edited 23rd Feb '18 5:15:55 PM by MarqFJA

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"Martial Intelligence" might work, assuming you want it to mean about the same thing as the original.

I don't have any exact names here, but since "Megiddo" is an apocalypse-themed name, you could look for other names with a similar theme, like "Revelation" or something. For the last one in particular, you could include "silver" in the name.

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I'm writing a Pokemon Super Fic, and I need a name for the Big Bad organization. Thing is, I'm trying to keep their villainy hidden from both the reader and the characters until around the climax, so it needs to be a name not to run away from really fast, but I also want to avoid Names to Trust Immediately, as those tend to get subverted (as occurred in Sun and Moon, and pretty much everyone saw it coming).

Edited by AgentKirin on Jul 5th 2018 at 5:15:25 AM

First thing that came to mind is "Ministry of Intelligence and [some other thing]"

I don't have a concrete suggestion, but look into the Brotherhood of Funny Hats trope. For example, the revolutionary coven in Les Miserables was called "Les Amis de l'ABC" (The Friends of the ABC). It was also a Punny Name, since ABC in French is pronounced similarly to "abaisee", which means lowly, abased. So the name of their organization roughly translated into "The Friends of the Indigent".

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No, that still keeps the unwanted baggage that comes with the word "military". This is supposed to be a comprehensive intelligence agency, with military intelligence being merely one of many kinds of intelligence that it does.

Calling it a "Ministry" sounds really odd IMO.

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"Ministry" is a pretty common thing in UK government though, I think. There's ministries for various functions and departments, so it's hardly odd from the pov of the people utilizing it.

edited 24th Feb '18 5:45:01 AM by sgamer82

But it's an intelligence agency that just so happens to have a cabinet-level official as their boss. I'd understand if I was talking about an actual ministry that all of the country's intelligence agencies answer to (the same way a defence ministry acts w.r.t. the armed forces), but that's not the case here.

edited 24th Feb '18 6:50:36 AM by MarqFJA

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I want to name a ship. I want it to be a one word name that means something like, "Eternal Light" or "Divine Light" or something like that. Any ideas?

Any particular language or cultural influence you're going for? Or, rather, whose ship is it?

English is fine. I mean, it's a spaceship built by alien moth creatures. I already used the word Scintillant for a smaller ship, but I'm trying to name a massive warship. The pinnacle of their technology. So I want a name that means the brightest light in existence. Celestial is close, but it's too common.

edited 28th Feb '18 1:29:32 PM by WillKeaton

Reason I ask, especially if you have other ships named, is I think it helps to have consistency in things like this. Ship names of X class follow Y theme kind of thing. I also personally work best when I have a theme, pun, or reference to work with.

Well, as moths, they really like light, so all their ships are going to be named after light or bright stuff. Like, another ship of theirs is called the Scintillant, which is a fancy way of saying something is bright. The ship I'm trying to name is going to be their most sophisticated and advanced one, hence why I'm hoping to find a name that means "brightest light" or something like that.

Scintillant came to as Latin, so looking up Latin for bright, I have a few good sounding possibilities:

• Candidus
• Illuster
• Lumen