Is there any good sites that have the origins of names and words for old Nordic/Celtic/German names to get ideas from? All I find in search is baby name clickbait sites
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Is there any good sites that have the origins of names and words for old Nordic/Celtic/German names to get ideas from? All I find in search is baby name clickbait sites
I use fantasynamegenerators com for everything because it has so much variety by now.
I’ve tried it before and found it good enough, but I was looking for something similar that also said what each name means
Yeah the service sucks because it doesn't offer me a free blowjob at the same time
Are there any other generators worth checking out? Or is that it?
>fantasynamegenerators com
I remember that site, it got too convulted to use, so I had to find another site.
What site is that anon? Link us please.
i prefer short names
Fax
Tel
Raz
Dax
Izz
Fue
Due
Rue
Sue
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look into etymology
Modern record-keeping and tax collecting significantly altered medieval naming conventions for the sake of itemizing and tracking people in villages. In a pre-modern setting, there were very few first names--most people in a village would go by Henry or a common biblical name, and have multiple last names which were descriptions of them--John Underhill, John Smith, etc. would be different names for one guy who happened to a smith and lived under the hill. Modernizing governments only changed this because for the purpose of tax collection and land deeds it wouldn't do to have several people with the same first name and multiple last names. But if this is a setting where characters are non-nobles and hence don't have land deeds, nor do they pay taxes to the crown, then they would likely have a very common first name and a descriptive last name to distinguish them from others.
seems pointless to have a generic first name if there's multiple last names that would all serve as better identifiers. Why not just call John Underhill/Smith "Smith Underhill"?
Because there were no saints named Smith and people really liked naming their kids after saints.
So like people naming their kids after celebrities today. Got it anon.
>Nordic/Celtic/German
Nordic are a subset of Germanic and old Celtic looks a lot like Latin.
>pushes glasses up nose
And Nordic and Germanic are distinct enough from each other for the difference to be relevant. Both along with the pre-Roman Celts through the Scottish are commonly used as the basis for “barbarian” types
Not a website, but the Treasury of Archaic Names categorizes names by various types (eg, Bemister is a name derived from beekeeping, Bound is from freemen veterans.)
Not OP, but thanks for the recommendation Anon. Do you know of any other useful books like this please?
Bumpgay please
The only other thing I have that focuses on names is Gygax's Extraordinary Book of Names by Malcolm Bowers. It doesn't hit on historical etymology much, but does give a lot of names by place and time if you just need something to sound right.
As someone who loved Everquest, this map is amazing.
>Go to IMDB
>Choose a swell movie set in a place and culture you like - "Nordic Viking" whatever
>scroll through the cast list for names
I use it all the time for gaming, even just to get syllables to string together
That is honestly brilliant.
Phaggott
Tschingk
homierd
Kuyk
Ghouq
Dju
I’m not going to tell you my (excellent) sources for names because I don’t want anyone else to have them. I’m keeping it to myself and my names are better than all of yours.
>baby name clickbait sites
Have you not unironically tried these?
Sorry, but I'm not going to name my viking berserker 'Harmony'
I wrote my own generators. Unless you do that, you'll never get what you want.
post a link, anon
Would if I could, the hosting company withdrew from Russia after the war and my site was taken down.
Wow that sucks big time
Is there a wayback machine save of it?
How do you make your own then? Do you any advice for us?
Go to bed, bumpgay
what’s your problem?
I use Gary Gygax's Extraordinary Book of Names
Here are some for the ones you listed:
Norse: Bjórn, Einarr, Grímr, Helgi, Ketill, Ragnarr, Thorbjörn, Thorgeirr, Thórir, Thorkell, Thorsteinn, Thórthr
Celtic: Agedillios, Ateponius, Banui, Cottius, Criciro, Andosteni, Samais, Talius, Toutio, Vercombogius
German: Alexander, Andreas, Christian, Daniel, Dominik, Felix, Franz, Friedrich, Lukas, Markus, Matthias, Maximilian, Michael, Philipp, Rudolf, Sebastian, Stefan, Thomas, Tobias, Wilhelm
Add in some anglo saxon like aethelfred and Mayomund and Archibald and Alston and ockham and Kirby.
>Kirby
Why would they name anything after a pink gluttonous ball? Lol
In the Poetic Edda there is a catalog of the names of all Dwarves, its pretty cool and offers some good Nordic names.
Too bad Tolkien took most of them so now all you can think of is the Hobbit movies.
I thought that Tolkien was big into Christian themes, with the Balar being angels and shit like that. Why would he steal from Norse mythology?
>bumpgay being disingenuous to keep a thread alive
What about naming angels and demons of either gender beyond just copying existing names from the Bible, people that would have been alive in Bible times, and/or monsters like those from Abrahamic myth? Does anyone have any suggestions there please?
Angels have fairly normal names. Don’t know why you want to change that
I think that it’s the other way around. We started naming people after the more famous angels.
Are there any baby name sites that you find actually useful? Or are they all crap?
Azgaar's.
Easy to copypasta huge lists from.
I thought that they were a map thing. It does names too?
Thanks anon. What have you personally got that you stole from there?
fantasynamegenerators com Is what I use.
Just that site? Nothing else?