For surnames, I'm rather partial to Schultz and Cahill.
(That Guy You Met Once)
I'm adding surnames next. About 1/3 of the list is up now.
Copying all these is very carpal tunnel-inducing, so it'll take a while.
Thanks for the suggestions, though.
Edit:' In the name of sanity, I'm not adding other peoples' lists to mine unless I see some I really like. We'll just treat everyone else's lists as seperate additions.
Also:
Especially if you're doing non-American or anachronistic names, please specify countries.
edited 30th Mar '11 9:40:21 PM by Wheezy
Project progress: The Adroan (102k words), The Pigeon Witch, (40k). Done but in need of reworking: Yume Hime, (50k)
I have one of these on my computer. Actually, two of them, because I stole my brother's list of surnames as well.
Male:
Diarmid
Diego
Durante
Fintan
Gwillam
Karel
Killian
Lorcan
Mordecai
Nemenya
Phelan
Svante
Tobias
Todd
Wystan
Female:
Yolanda
Ristan
Tamsin
Felicity
edited 30th Mar '11 9:31:22 PM by LoniJay
Be not afraid...
He/Him
Surnames:
Brock
Cho (Korean)
Clarkson
Johnson
Hodgson
Hammond
Park (Korean)
edited 31st Mar '11 2:26:48 AM by Acebrock
My troper wall
Hm, let's check out my name list...
- Male
- Adrian
- Hadrian (the original Latin-derived form)
- Hadrianus (Hellenized form of Hadrian)
- Donato (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese)
- Emil
- Elias (older form of Elijah)
- Dominick (and all associated alternate spellings)
- Immanuel (and its older form Emanuel)
- Isaac
- Ivan (Russian/Ukrainian form of John)
- Luke
- Marcel
- Salvatore
- Seth
- Solomon
- Sven
- Vincent
- Victor
- Zane
- Adrian
- Female
- Anna
- Ariana
- Chiara (Italian)
- Clara
- Evangeline
- Helen
- Helena (the original Hellenized form)
- Lyra
- Marlene
- Marla
- Moraiah
- Shiori (Japanese)
- Violet
- Surnames
- Acquarone (Italian)
- Alessandri (Spanish)
- Cline
- Favonius (Late Roman)
- Rennel
- Schatz (German)
- Vasilyev (Russian)
First names:
- Danny (Daniel)
- Wally (Walter)
- Jose/José (Latino)
- Jesus/Jesús (Latino)
- Micah
- Miguel (Latino)
- Yana (Russian female name)
- Marisol (Latina)
- Esperanza (Latina)
- Esmerelda (Latina)
- Jaime (Latino)
- Esteban (Latino)
To name a few.
Surnames are the ones I hoard, let's see.
- Abbot
- Abbott
- Brady
- Christensen (Dutch)
- Coldwell
- Connelly
- Connolly
- O'Connol
- Daley
- Delaney
- Dougal
- Doyle
- if paired with well known Irish names such as Patrick or Sean, you have officially created one of the most generic Irish names on the planet. No joke.
- Godfrey
- Griffin
- Guk (Ukrainian)
- Hakim (Muslim)
- Koveshnakov (Russian)
- Koveshnakova (Fem.)
- Reinheld
- Renolds for the common Anglicization
- Lefèvre (common for Acadian families)
- Lefebvre (less common)
- Mc Crae
- Mc Ginnis
- Mc Gowan
- Montgomery
- Mc Master
- Monroe
- also acceptable as a first name
- Puppala (Hindu)
- O Meadhra
- O Meara
- O'Neil
- O'Neal
- O'Neill
- O Niall (common enough in strongly Irish communites)
- Saab (Muslim)
- Seabreeze
- Sulliven
- Smith
- Tremblay (French, very, very common in Eastern Canada)
- Wallan
- Wallen
- Waller
- Walsh
- Zaman (Muslim)
And I just realized this list strongly reflects the place I live, mostly English/Scottish/Irish with some French, Near and Middle Eastern and Eastern European thrown in for flavour.
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Since a forum thread might fall down in the index, get outdated, etc, would it be a good idea to start a wiki page for the list?
Da Rules excuse all the inaccuracy in the world. Listen to them, not me.
If it were something like SoYouWantTo.Name A Character.
edited 31st Mar '11 11:42:50 AM by MajorTom
turning and turning
You'd want to organise that by ethnicity/origin, not just general alphabetisation.
edited 31st Mar '11 2:03:37 PM by cityofmist
Scepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. - Clarence Darrow
@ Post 9: Good idea. Let's do that.
Also, don't forget the unisex names, like Justice.
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How should we organize them? I'm in favor of male/female/surname, because that's what'd be most helpful when I'm trying to find a name, but someone suggested sorting by ethnicity. Any other opinion?
edited 31st Mar '11 2:35:54 PM by Yej
Da Rules excuse all the inaccuracy in the world. Listen to them, not me.
Ahr river
Turkish names ftw:
Ahmet (m)
Mehmet (m)
Hilmi (m) (technically not supposed to have the dot on the first 'i' Hill-mee)
Necati(m) (Neh-jah-tee)
Rüstü (m) (tail on 's' Ruushtuu)
Ceyda (f) (Jay-dah)
Hülya (f)
Huriye (f)
Pinar (f) (no dot on i)
Rabia (f)
Samet (m)
Huriye (f)
Bengisu (f)
Yaren (f)
Yagmur (f) (smile on the g Yah-moor)
Pelin (f)
Asli (f) (no dot on the i)
Burhan (m)
—
Time period is today. These are the names of my relatives. Shhhh. Don't tell them.
edited 31st Mar '11 2:50:16 PM by MrAHR
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Well, it seems as though the names are being sorted by gender, time period, and origin. I wish folders worked on this forum, that'd make it prettier to look at.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
Scratch that, epic reading failure on my part.
edited 31st Mar '11 9:34:43 PM by Anaheyla
This is still a signature.
watching down on us
www.behindthename.com for the win.
Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.
turning and turning
I would say male/female/surname, but within that have them organised by origin. Unisex names I would just put in both sections, not in their own special one, because it'll just make them easier to find.
Scepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. - Clarence Darrow
(That Guy You Met Once)
It would be awesome if this got a "So You Want to..." page.
Here's how I'd format it:
Region of the world or Country (e.g.: Eastern Europe, China)
Time Period 1 (e.g.: 20th & 21st Centuries)
Folder: Male
- List of names *
- Related Names
Folder: Female
- List of names
- Related Names
Folder: Surnames
- List of names
- Related Names
Time Period 2 (e.g.: Medieval Period)
Folder: Male
- List of names
- Related Names
Folder: Female
- List of names
- Related Names
Folder: Surnames
- List of names
- Related Names
edited 1st Apr '11 11:25:07 AM by Wheezy
Project progress: The Adroan (102k words), The Pigeon Witch, (40k). Done but in need of reworking: Yume Hime, (50k)
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Do we need the time period distinction? Most writers will be savvy enough to avoid Aerith and Bob. (if they want to avoid it, anyway.)
edited 1st Apr '11 11:29:25 AM by Yej
Da Rules excuse all the inaccuracy in the world. Listen to them, not me.
It's true that some names are more archaic than others (Elijah/Elias, Matthew/Matthias, Adrian/Hadrianus, etc...), but most writers know about when certain names were being used.
Unless they're really foreign names. That's about it.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
(That Guy You Met Once)
Personally, I can't tell the difference between an ancient Japanese name and a modern one (or a random mash of alternating vowels and consonants, but that's just my inexperience with the culture).
And for foriegners writing American or British names, it might be useful knowledge that "Ezekiel" and "Jebediah" fell out of use in the early 20th century, and "Kayla" and "Yvonne" as well as most examples of My Nayme Is are only popular as of late (in this country, anyway).
edited 1st Apr '11 1:44:29 PM by Wheezy
Project progress: The Adroan (102k words), The Pigeon Witch, (40k). Done but in need of reworking: Yume Hime, (50k)
I like it here.
For Male, I can only think of Ulysses and Atticus. I've met one of each.
<(-_-<)(>-_-)> "FUSION HA"
From my name list...
Male
- Art (Arthur)
- Bartholomew
- Christian
- Cutler
- Dorian
- Emmanuel
- Gabriel
- Jude
- Linus
- Lyle
- Marlon (too famous?)
- Mose/Moshe (Hebrew, can be short for Moses)
- Simon
Female
- Adina
- Anya (Russian)
- Caroline
- Eve
- Lynn
- Madeline
- Tina
Surnames
- Beaumont
- Blackwood
- Blakey
- Douglas
- Frost
- Garner
- Goldstein
- Grimley
- Hawking
- Hawkins
- Hoit
- Keaton
- Lawless
- Lindsay
- Luther
- Madison
- Marlowe
- Morgenstern
- Quirke
- Withers
- Zacharias
edited 1st Apr '11 5:51:27 PM by HopelessSituationWarrior
"Weird doors open. People fall into things."
Transsexual needs <3
I have this program called "Real Lives" (2007 edition, by the company Educational Solutions), that allows you to generate a person and go through their entire life from birth to death.
It has an entire list of names (male, female, and family) based on region, so I highly recommend giving it a look for reference at least. Given the colonization situation of a bunch of places, you're bound to find name lists showing up in multiple regions (for instance, United States and Australia both use the same name list in the program).
It's better to be right than liked. Really. I Just Want to Be Loved
More specifically, names that it would be entirely plausible to give a character from a certain place without running into Ghetto Name, Famous-Named Foreigner, Hollywood Spelling, or As Long as It Sounds Foreign, but without having to resort to lists of super-common names either.
...Or farting out something like Jacuzzi Splot.
It's constantly undergoing Rolling Updates, and I encourage anyone to submit new ones - especially from other countries or time periods.
There are only 3 rules:
The list would include first names for both genders, last names, and nicknames, and would be sorted by gender, and time period in which someone would most likely name their kid that. Each country I'm covering gets a different section, with each major race in said country getting a subsection.
(This first part I compiled in one day from various magazines, newspapers, books, and memory. Let me know if you have any comments on it.)
Anglo-American: Present
Male
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Female
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q R
S
T
U V
W
X Y
Z
Surnames
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
P
Q R
S
T
U V
W
X Y Z
Nicknames
Latin American: Present
Male
A
B C
D
E
F
G H
I J
K L
M
N
O P
Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
Female
A B C
D E F G H I
J K L M
N
O
P Q R S
T
U V
W X Y Z
Surnames
A
B
C
D
E F
G
H
I J K L
M
N O P Q R
S
T U V
W X Y Z
Nicknames
Black names I'm kind of reluctant to handle since 90% of them cross over with "anglo-eurpoean." I'll get to them later.
edited 19th Oct '11 7:10:29 AM by Wheezy
Project progress: The Adroan (102k words), The Pigeon Witch, (40k). Done but in need of reworking: Yume Hime, (50k)