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CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#1: Mar 15th 2023 at 6:26:53 PM

Noticed there have been a few moments of name talk, so I made this thread.

Basically, a thread about names and all that stuff. Character names, location names, titles, names in old languages, facts about names, their meanings, whatever. As long as it's related to names. Just that there's a lot of stuff about names that can be interesting. It is your choice if you talk about your or others' real names.

I'll go first.

Most non arabic speakers can't pronounce my name correctly, resulting in me just going with the flow. The main hurdle is the first letter of my name, which is a common problem for many other arabic names. (Ali, Abdul-[One of Allah's names])

I might as well share a fact about names that start with Abdul or something similar like Abdullah and Abdulrehman. They all mean servant/worshiper of God, and each variant is a different name of God.

Edited by CardboardBot on Mar 15th 2023 at 4:27:51 PM

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
Excessive-Menace Time to SLEEP from the Velvet Cage (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Time to SLEEP
#2: Mar 15th 2023 at 7:26:49 PM

Sometimes whenever people try to spell my name (which I won't reveal on the internet spaces for personal privacy reasons), they sometimes put in a duplicate consonant letter by mistaken assumption. It's a valid variation, but it's not how my name is actually spelled.

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Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#4: Mar 16th 2023 at 2:32:49 AM

I remember in grade school when there were around 3 other students with variations of my name that mine was pronounced differently. That was amusing.

I've also met folks with the same spelling of my name tongue

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Mar 16th 2023 at 5:33:05 PM

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ReikoKazama Kersplat! from Tasmania, Australia Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to the music
Kersplat!
#5: Mar 16th 2023 at 7:29:48 AM

I know Ragna's name is pronounced like Ragnarok but for some stupid reason my brain wants to pronounce it like Ragna the Bloodedge.

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WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#6: Mar 16th 2023 at 3:05:20 PM

People have always had trouble pronouncing my last name. But I did at least meet one history teacher who knew my last name immediately because it has appeared in some famous US history events, it's just way more obscure and not an obvious pronunciation at first glance.

Edited by WarJay77 on Mar 16th 2023 at 6:05:31 AM

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Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Wheatleyfangirl White Lily Dawnbreaker from Crispa Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: SEDUCE ME!
White Lily Dawnbreaker
#8: Mar 16th 2023 at 3:09:17 PM

I remember one time that someone misspelled my name (Jewel) with Jean at a deli's.

Beast Yeast episode 12 was peak. Everyone in that episode was great. Especially White Lily.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#9: Mar 16th 2023 at 4:10:46 PM

I was playing with google translate and I created a name 'riyah rihara'

it means

Winds of wind in arabic

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Cibryll ~Serra~ from Lightning Crest (she/her) Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
~Serra~
#10: Mar 21st 2023 at 1:55:39 PM

I kinda get upset if my Troper handle (and elsewhere-used name) "Cibryll" gets misspelled in some way, whether with one "l", or the "y" and "i switching places.
Only reason I don't say something is because I'd probably get scolded by my sister—

Also don't like it if people just. Like. Assume my first name is "Charlotte".
It's not. It's "Charlie". No "-lotte" about it.

Also, I have a major liking for absurdly weird names.
Seriously.
Sure, some of my characters have normal names. There's "Gwyneth", "Taylor" and "Amaya". (Never played GTA games before, though.)
Then there are the less-than-normal ones, like "Glaice", "Crizelda", "Sjane", "Lavitka" and "Bloom". (No Fun with Acronyms thing here for me.)
Then there are the weirder ones, like "Jzydia", "Yjisah", "Vresun", "Tyamitica", "Ritesoa"note  and "Cirxhale".
And then, there are the absurd ones that even I don't know how to pronounce, like "Rǻna", "Hêrlǽx'Ǔsuķeđz" and "Ǻnor Şernia Ōdaße Rÿnz Ńorn Ĩzanaģa Velůna Âņałanør". Yes, with all the accented characters (which might show up as blocks or something for some users, I dunno).
And sometimes the gibberish that results from previewing posts made on TV Tropes, like how that first one becomes "Rǻna" or that second one becomes "Hêrlǽx'Ǔsuķeđz". [lol]

This applies to everything else that I can give a name, such as locations.
Like. Normal location names such as "Sacred Isles", "The Tower That Never Was" or "Sonskyn Town" ("sonskyn" being Afrikaans for "sunshine"). Or the names that came about from Google Translate (or names whose origins are from other languages like Irish). Such as "Féasta Neamhní" (from GT-Irish).
Then, the weirder names like "Cú Chyðor" or "Panðyose" (which, at least for its lore, would end up with a different name at some point in time).

My name gets misspelled now and then. x_x
Before I got it memorized, I used to remember it this way:
"He who would deem it worthy to swap the last two letters, would attain the power of the trios."

I sometimes do similar sort of things with other names, though it can get pretty crazy.

"Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#11: Mar 21st 2023 at 2:25:24 PM

Sounds sweet and flattering. waii Thank you. :)

What would you say about when I type your name in on my phone, one of the autocomplete options that comes up is “Cinderella”? ;)

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#12: Mar 21st 2023 at 6:18:11 PM

Some names I was almost given included Cornelius, Atticus, Simon, and Benedict.

Apparently, one of my aunts was strongly against the name Simon because of the sketches from Saturday Night Live with Mike Myers. "Atticus" was vetoed because our last name sounds fairly similar to Finch and that would probably inspire a Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? moment from a lot of people. Never really heard why Cornelius or Benedict were decided against, though.

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CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#13: Mar 23rd 2023 at 9:29:15 AM

Your family really wanted you to have a unique name.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
moefoxes Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Chat, is this real?
#14: Mar 23rd 2023 at 11:19:28 AM

I actually love punny names if they're done right. I have a whole list of them in my notes app to use on future characters that fit them. I have one story whose cast sounds like they just came out of Ace Attorney.

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Mara999 International Man of Mystery from Grim Up North Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
International Man of Mystery
#15: Mar 23rd 2023 at 11:39:17 AM

Tracing the etymology of names can be fun, especially if you can turn your first name and surname into a cool description of yourself. Now it doesn't have to be an accurate description, but my first and last name together mean "quarrelsome hill-man".

punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#16: Mar 23rd 2023 at 6:14:41 PM

^^^ Clearly, they did!

I've noticed that Jalen/Jaden (and their variations) are for whatever reason a very common name among people in my age group. I feel like I know of at least 5 people at my school with some variant of those names.

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#17: Mar 24th 2023 at 7:35:12 PM

My first and last name is an anagram of "Laser Linked"

My favorite failed console tbh
CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#18: Mar 25th 2023 at 1:31:02 AM

So guys, what kind of weird nicknames do you have?

    Some of my own 
I'm gonna share three "notable" nicknames I have. The first one is Spider-Man Homeless, which I got because one time I wore a Spider-Man mask while wearing clothes that, according to my cousin, made me look like a hobo. The second one is (Surf)Shark. I got it a long time ago when I was younger because I would act like a shark in ball pits, "swimming" inside of them then popping out in front of an unsuspecting person and throwing lots of balls at them. The Surf part got added later because for some reason one of my friends thought it was funny to compare me to a certain VPN. The last one is black cat. And it's just because that for some reason, whenever I'm nearby, my brother sometimes performs badly at whatever he's doing and blames me for it, outright calling me a black cat due to my black hair.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#19: Mar 25th 2023 at 2:32:17 AM

Besides family pet names, my internet moniker Faith is the closest thing to a nickname I got going for me. I don't recall anyone ever giving me one, and I'm just indifferent to the idea of nicknames.

When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the savior
Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#20: Mar 25th 2023 at 2:16:30 PM

I have a Swedish name, so people keep mispronouncing it.

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moefoxes Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Chat, is this real?
#21: Mar 25th 2023 at 2:27:49 PM

Since both my real name and online name are short, I don't really have that many nicknames. But my best friend (an online friend) calls me Momo.

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BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#22: Mar 29th 2023 at 10:19:29 AM

This might get existential, but does anyone else suck at remembering people's names? It's been getting daunting recently that some people know my name ("Hi [insert my name]") and I don't recall theirs (so I just say "Hello" back). That is unless I see them frequently enough (such as my roommate and a handful of classmates).

I believe that, for me, it likely stems from a Safety in Indifference mentality developed since young - I moved a lot, got 3rd-wheeled once or more, figured I was better off doing stuff on my own - young me figured "what's the point in remembering people if we're all meant to move on?" Thank God that I eventually went to a boarding school in my later teens that restored my faith in life and friendships.

Edit: Oh yeah, and I remember asking for someone's name once in middle school like a week into the semester and she was basically wounded, from what I could tell. Hence why I'm hesitant to ask again. Used to think that figuring it out from other folks referring to said student was sufficient.

Of the valuable advices that the self-help book my dad gave me last year (The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz), making the effort to remember people's names and refer to them by name helps them feel special, and it's a great feeling to share around. I believe that I've taken the lessons of the book to heart (even summarised the lessons in a sandbox forum post lol), but this is one of the advices I've yet to practice implementing. Hopefully next semester, insha Allah (God-willing).

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Mar 29th 2023 at 6:30:49 PM

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#23: Mar 29th 2023 at 4:05:02 PM

The Dutch/Afrikaans "ij" trips me up - it's pronounced like the English "y", but I keep reading it like in Polish. So I won't be mad if someone pronounces the Dutch-based surnames from my fantasy writing incorrectly either.

I don't feel that I have problem coming up with character names, though. For example, the pre-rolled characters for my planned Dark Heresy 2 campaign all had Boss Subtitles, a surname and six suggested names.

The Overseer (a noble from the Administratum) had the nobility title of valus/vala (depending on chosen gender), the surname Doran, and stuffy, slightly archaic first names to choose from like Alexius, Gilliam, Sigmondus, Elsinora, Veronica and, as an easter egg, Maldonata. Or Mal for short. You can see where this is going.

The Ace Pilot (Exactly What It Says on the Tin) had the surname Vincent, and the first names were simple and kinda street, like Alex (a homage, if gender-flipped, to my Vampire: The Requiem character), Jace, Ray, Kait, Amanda and Zoe.

The Reclamator (gunslinging cogboy/coggirl) had a weird Admech designation as a surname (7-Zeta-1-3, no deeper meaning), and the names were all references: Elon, Morgan (also a reference to my Warhammer engineer character from the campaign we played as a group), Viktor, Alva, Kyrie and Trioda (a kind of an electronic component).

The Emperor's Light (nyctophobic pyrokinetic from a Cathedral world) not only had the surname Vianney (after St. Jean-Marie Vianney), but names all after Catholic saints or otherwise with very Catholic vibes: Bosco (after St. John Bosco), Franciscus, Theodorus (it does mean "God's Gift", after all), Aquina (after St. Thomas Aquinas), Maria and Theresa.

Aspirant (which actually is a police officer rank here) Zahn, the forge world riot cop with medical training also had short, simple blue-collar names to pick from: Cade, Omar, Royd, Enis, Maeve and Yana.

Edited by NotSoBadassLongcoat on Mar 29th 2023 at 1:05:56 PM

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Cibryll ~Serra~ from Lightning Crest (she/her) Since: Feb, 2022 Relationship Status: Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!
~Serra~
#24: Mar 29th 2023 at 4:38:55 PM

… come to think of it, I haven't seen "ij" in Afrikaans…

"Can you even read the blackboard written clear as can be?" / "Can you even read his mind? See that kid's lost fantasy?"
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#25: Mar 29th 2023 at 5:02:18 PM

I have a couple alter-egos I've given Awesome McCool Names: Eris Mosswatcher I got from a fantasy name generator- I've taken photos of myself in fantasy type garb and called it an OC named that. Damon Armitage came out of trying to come up with a screenname while listening to Blur and reading some book where a minor character had the surname Armitage (Neuromancer I think) - I've made music and credited him as a guest performer as a joke.

Finally for some reason for a while I didn't like giving my name out at Starbucks and the like and started ordering as Gustav. I don't think anyone ever asked for a surname but I would have gone with Gustav Swanson.

Edited by MikeK on Mar 29th 2023 at 5:14:50 AM


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