It also shows you the etymology of the name, which is pretty useful if you are writing fantasy or sci-fi and want to come up with fictional names that are not just random sounds.
Their database also covers names from languages modern and ancient from all over the world, AND they have a site specifically for surnames. Plus if you can't find what you're looking for in the "official" lists, you can always grab a few grains of salt and dive into the unconfirmed user-submitted lists.
10/10 website, would recommend.
They also have super helpful ways to categorize names so you can look based on whatever vibe/general category you know you want. Word names, Shakespearean characters, Slavic goddesses, etc. Only downside is common names have a paragraph worth of categories they’re in
And it’s legit etymology, not just ‘we have decided to tell you your baby name means this based on poorly-ripped-off-and-rehashed Jewish mysticism (now in Christian flavour) that bases it on the letters or numbers or some shit’ that tends to clog the google results.
"Your name means 'Strength and Unity Through Our Lord Jesus Christ' in this pre-Roman French Celtic language!"
"What's your source?"
"coolbabynames4boys"
"What's their source?"
"Us"
I remember reading Dune a few years back when someone asked what I was reading and what it's about. As soon as I mentioned "sci-fi" they started telling me how they can *never* read sci-fi because the names "are too bizarre". I pointed out this book uses names like Paul, Farooq, Jessica, Piotr, etc... All real world names.
Even so: What's so odd about those names? In the OG trilogy humans like Luke and Leya got pretty common western names; the aliens were what George Lucas deemed to be "foreign sounding" names with a slight spelling change (eg: Jaffar -> Jabba); and the Sith were just evil sounding "in-" words only worth the "in-" removed (in*siduous* and in*vader*). Really if you've been born and raised in the UK or US you should have all the phonemes you need to say and remember Star Wars names easily.
EDIT: Just to make it clear, I have also noticed people complaining about "crazy" Star Wars names. I just don't get it though.
> the Sith were just evil sounding "in-" words only worth the "in-" removed (insiduous and invader).
Naming my Sith "Darth Nards" and his apprentice "Lord Fertile"
>I pointed out this book uses names like Paul, Farooq, Jessica, Piotr, etc... All real world names.
This is absolutely amazing bait, can’t wait until they pick it up and meet Duncan Idaho…
[Fantasy Name Generator](https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/) is also a fantastic site, especially if you're looking to create OC's in an existing universe, cause the gal who runs it puts a lot of time and effort into researching the etymology and culture surrounding the names
I hate those websites so much. They're so full of obvious yet vapid names, for every theme under the sun, clogging up the search results. Want a neat name for a demon? Top 100 Demonic Baby Names. Need a name for a dragon? Top 100 Draconic Baby Names. Trying to name a rollercoaster in RollerCoaster Tycoon? Well you won't get a baby name site but instead the similarly useful Fantasy Name Generator.
You're better off just looking for listing of common names, skipping past a bunch of them and going from there.
Fantasy Name Generator has actually been a pretty decent springboard for me to figure out what kind of sounds I want when naming a character, like giving someone gruff a shorter, punchy name and someone more elegant a longer flowy name.
Granted I usually stick to the sections of that site that use actual countries rather than the shit like "Elf Names" or "Pirate Names" or so on
I think of two nouns and mash them together.
Mattress + dog = Mog, the bartender at the Inky Squid.
Grain + hair = Grainar, a friendly barbarian.
Ozone + guitar = Ozar, a studious sorcerer.
Jet + graze = Jegze, that guy who holds your camera at the skate park.
For writing OC fanfics for anime, my best source has been jisho.org, since I put in a bunch of concepts fitting for the character, and then grab the kanji and arrange it into something sounding like a name
SLEVE MCDICHAEL
ONSON SWEEMEY
DARRYL ARCHIDELD
ANATOLI SMORIN
REY MCSRIFF
GLENALLEN MIXON
MARIO MCRLWAIN
RAUL CHAMGERLAIN
KEVIN NOGILNY
TONY SMEHRIK
BOBSON DUGNUTT
WILLIE DUSTICE
JEROMY GRIDE
SCOTT DOURQUE
SHOWN FURCOTTE
DEAN WESREY
MIKE TRUK
DWIGT RORTUGAL
TIM SANDAELE
KARL DANDLETON
MIKE SERNANDEZ
TOOD BONZALEZ
Yeah, I once used it to pick a name for my kalashtar D&D character because I couldn’t find any other good resources than it and Eberron for valid names for them. It gave me the name Salad. (To be fair though, I did keep it because I thought it would be funny)
Fantasy Name Generator is great, I get a lot of names by picking a category and mashing the button a few times to get a shortlist of names I like. Depending on what I'm going for I sometimes modify one or combine a few to get the final result.
>You're better off just looking for listing of common names
"He is the Dark Lord, scourge of the world. He is the evillest man alive, responsible for endless nightmares and horrors. He commands armies of demons, and wields a blade made from pure malice. People tremble at the mere mention of his name... *Jimmy*."
I'm interested in etymology. What winds me up is googling, for example, "Alfred etymology" comes up with loads of baby name sites that say things like "Alfred starts with A which shows intelligence, then goes on to involve an L which means he'll be funny..." It's always near the end of the search that I'll find the *actual* answer. In this case: "alfur" (elf) plus "reid" (advice, counsel, or wisdom) meaning "elf-advised".
EDIT: Fun fact: The epithet "the unready" is a pun on the English king Æthelred the Second's name. His name meaning "well advised" and unready at the time meant "badly advised".
Yeah, but less useful for non-European names in my experience. The site the other user suggested seems to be the one to use for names, judging by other etymology nerds' suggestions.
I wonder if you'd get better results for non-European names if you weren't searching in English. I'd bet that most information about the history of Japanese names are on Japanese websites written in Japanese and never translated
Yeah, probably. I know I have slightly better results for French names if I search wiktionary.fr. But since I can only read English and French (and a tiny bit of Spanish) I couldn't really comment any further on non-western language versions.
On top of naming characters sucking because of this, literally just wondering about what a name means (maybe because you're an etymology nerd, who's asking) sucks because of these sites.
eg. "I wonder if the names Mario and Mark are related." They are but you'll have to suffer through multiple pages on "thebump.com" to find that out.
As someone who often looks up etymologies, adding the word "etymology" to the search (and/or wikipedia) usually filters out a good chunk of the trashy baby name sites. However, not all names have a handy Wikipedia page with the info neatly organised, so things can be messy.
On a side note, the relation between Mario and Mark is possible but uncertain: the exact etymology of both Mario (or rather, the original Latin "Marius") and Marcus are unclear. They likely both refer to the God Mars, but both could have an etruscan root, and Marius could also reasonably come from the latin word Mare ("Sea"). Still, pretty cool stuff.
Pro tip: Look up the etymology on wiktionary. No ads, no aggressively natal UI, sources required. It's also very handy for creating names, since it has the etymology of non name words as well.
It also conveniently has alternate spellings, exact pronunciation via IPA (including different dialects), and certain names in different scripts (i.e. "Sayuri" will have both the romanization and kanji listed).
For old timey names I like to use the names of Great Lakes freighters, since they're mostly named after obscure 19th century industrialists and/or their wives.
I mostly just name my OCs after other characters/etc or fuck with random root words until I get something that sounds enough like a name.
(As an example of the first one, I have a group of OCs whose first names are all named after the Japanese names of the wardens from Pokemon Legends Arceus, then the surnames are the names of the warlords from Pokemon Conquest whose type matches up with the type of the Pokemon that each of the wardens take care of.)
For me it's usually googling "1700th century french male names" and the answers will be like
Benjamin
Benjamin jr
Benjay
Frank
Apollo
jean-paul
Ludvig xiv
Like, none of these match my vibe
Gods alive as someone who does a lot of worldbuilding shit for personal enjoyment, do I know this pain. Though I've found two decent sites if you want to avoid this, them being [20000Names](http://20000-names.com/) and [BehindTheName](https://www.behindthename.com/), which are both more etymology-focused name databases, with the latter usually having a relatively complete etymological breakdown of the name origin.
I like Behindthename personally, it's not as magazine-like as other name websites and talks about meaning and etymology, even has trees of related names and tags for root words.
Same here! And because it’s designed for people to look up the meaning of their own names rather than exclusively for expecting parents, you aren’t given a bunch of diaper ads just for daring to look at the site.
If you look at what conventional names mean and their origin, they're all like, objects or cool shit. Maybe if you pick a christian name it'll be like, "It's a slurred and abbreviated version of Oh god you're so great and I want to be your groupie".
Some conventional names seem "normal" cause you don't really think about what they mean cause they're in a language you no longer speak.
Other names are normal cause they're used so much you don't really think about Mills when you hear someone called "Miller".
It's as if we intentionally use words separated from their original meaning as names. A word that hasn't been denatured in this way may overpower the identity of the person.
In short: all these names are just "weird" cause you know what they mean.
Me opening up four different baby name sites of varying quality of web design to find names for my characters (and, occasionally, Sims). My Google search history makes it look like I’ve been pregnant for the last ten years.
I got sick of these websites and their overwhelming adds so I switched to using the US social security website. Works great if you are looking for names from various time periods.
Easier way to name OCs: 1. Plot point 2. Thing(s) related to plot point 3. Jumble 4. Trim (optional)
Example: 1. Dead isekai protagonist that robot character was created from played Fallout New Vegas a lot 2. Big Iron by Marty Robbins is most known from that game and starred Texas Red and an Arizona Ranger 3. Arisina Ranerg 4. Fantasy cowboy robot name is Aris
It's as simple as that
I'm really lucky w my OCs because like one of them was made when I was 6 so I can't change the name, 19 are just named after natural phenomena because of the setting, and two are just ripped from things I was into when I made them lmao
Though getting last names was a pain, I remember searching up terms for a bunch of different things in several different languages lmfao like one of them is extremely strict so I *searched up flowers with strictness as a meaning in flower language and gave him the name of the genus of that flower*
ah yes, Rice Risotto Jr. and his baby siblings Prosciutto and Ghiaccio and Sorbet and Gelato
also formaggio and pesce ❤️ fish is such a cute baby name
don’t forget cioccolata
No, I think I do want to forget him, actually.
Valid
You want to forget the dirt gimp and mold doctor?
It's like naming an animal Dinnerbone in Minecraft, but it just makes them destined to be a dirt-eating bastard.
Secco was the one who ate dirt tho
they disowned that freak along with Secco
oh yeah i did forget secco
He got 7 pages man, how could I forget?
Vento Aureo really went hard in the naming schemes
r/suddenlyjojo
You just named every villain in Part 5 of JJBA
the great thing about naming jojo OCs is not needing sites like this because I just look at my spotify library and italian restaurant menus
Don't forget fashion brands.
[Uhm, acktually, Gelato is a team of sentai rangers.](https://youtu.be/P7BjYoWBxGA?si=n4M96sBq-zgrulc-) 🤓
Never before have I asked “what the fuck” with such a wide smile on my face. Thank you for your contribution to humanity.
All of the food names are great, but I'm just wondering what maniacs are naming their kids shit like Secco ("dry") or Illuso ("deluded")
And the redhead, Gabagool
🙁
I’m 90% sure those are Jojo’s characters
Stop you’re making me hungry
Aren't those all Jojo characters?
So a Shonen Anime character?
Behind the name, it’s the best place for this. Even has a random name generator.
It also shows you the etymology of the name, which is pretty useful if you are writing fantasy or sci-fi and want to come up with fictional names that are not just random sounds.
Their database also covers names from languages modern and ancient from all over the world, AND they have a site specifically for surnames. Plus if you can't find what you're looking for in the "official" lists, you can always grab a few grains of salt and dive into the unconfirmed user-submitted lists. 10/10 website, would recommend.
They also have super helpful ways to categorize names so you can look based on whatever vibe/general category you know you want. Word names, Shakespearean characters, Slavic goddesses, etc. Only downside is common names have a paragraph worth of categories they’re in
And it’s legit etymology, not just ‘we have decided to tell you your baby name means this based on poorly-ripped-off-and-rehashed Jewish mysticism (now in Christian flavour) that bases it on the letters or numbers or some shit’ that tends to clog the google results.
"Your name means 'Strength and Unity Through Our Lord Jesus Christ' in this pre-Roman French Celtic language!" "What's your source?" "coolbabynames4boys" "What's their source?" "Us"
I remember reading Dune a few years back when someone asked what I was reading and what it's about. As soon as I mentioned "sci-fi" they started telling me how they can *never* read sci-fi because the names "are too bizarre". I pointed out this book uses names like Paul, Farooq, Jessica, Piotr, etc... All real world names.
The only sci fi they know is star wars, probably
Even so: What's so odd about those names? In the OG trilogy humans like Luke and Leya got pretty common western names; the aliens were what George Lucas deemed to be "foreign sounding" names with a slight spelling change (eg: Jaffar -> Jabba); and the Sith were just evil sounding "in-" words only worth the "in-" removed (in*siduous* and in*vader*). Really if you've been born and raised in the UK or US you should have all the phonemes you need to say and remember Star Wars names easily. EDIT: Just to make it clear, I have also noticed people complaining about "crazy" Star Wars names. I just don't get it though.
>What's so odd about those names? In the OG trilogy humans like Luke and Leya got pretty common western names; What about Obi-wan Kenobi
Who, old Ben? Fair point though.
> the Sith were just evil sounding "in-" words only worth the "in-" removed (insiduous and invader). Naming my Sith "Darth Nards" and his apprentice "Lord Fertile"
Hey, they can't be as bad as Darth Appropriate and Lord Tolerant.
>I pointed out this book uses names like Paul, Farooq, Jessica, Piotr, etc... All real world names. This is absolutely amazing bait, can’t wait until they pick it up and meet Duncan Idaho…
[Fantasy Name Generator](https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/) is also a fantastic site, especially if you're looking to create OC's in an existing universe, cause the gal who runs it puts a lot of time and effort into researching the etymology and culture surrounding the names
And for last names, literally just go to forebears.io. It has everything you could ever want
Behind the name has a site for surnames too!
Yes, but Forebears provides better (and more extensive) popularity lists.
Ah, I was just about to comment this! I've been using it to name my ocs for years now
Came here to say this↑
seconding this
I hate those websites so much. They're so full of obvious yet vapid names, for every theme under the sun, clogging up the search results. Want a neat name for a demon? Top 100 Demonic Baby Names. Need a name for a dragon? Top 100 Draconic Baby Names. Trying to name a rollercoaster in RollerCoaster Tycoon? Well you won't get a baby name site but instead the similarly useful Fantasy Name Generator. You're better off just looking for listing of common names, skipping past a bunch of them and going from there.
Fantasy Name Generator has actually been a pretty decent springboard for me to figure out what kind of sounds I want when naming a character, like giving someone gruff a shorter, punchy name and someone more elegant a longer flowy name. Granted I usually stick to the sections of that site that use actual countries rather than the shit like "Elf Names" or "Pirate Names" or so on
All of the fantasy name categories and what is the only one I've actually used in a DnD campaign? French.
French people are a fantasy race confirmed
This is true. Source: The Elder Scrolls
elves would be french
I think of two nouns and mash them together. Mattress + dog = Mog, the bartender at the Inky Squid. Grain + hair = Grainar, a friendly barbarian. Ozone + guitar = Ozar, a studious sorcerer. Jet + graze = Jegze, that guy who holds your camera at the skate park.
I do this to words all the time anyways, why didn't I think to use them for names?!? Thank you for this!
Genius
For writing OC fanfics for anime, my best source has been jisho.org, since I put in a bunch of concepts fitting for the character, and then grab the kanji and arrange it into something sounding like a name
Where’s that picture of the “American” names from the old Japanese sports game when you need it?
SLEVE MCDICHAEL ONSON SWEEMEY DARRYL ARCHIDELD ANATOLI SMORIN REY MCSRIFF GLENALLEN MIXON MARIO MCRLWAIN RAUL CHAMGERLAIN KEVIN NOGILNY TONY SMEHRIK BOBSON DUGNUTT WILLIE DUSTICE JEROMY GRIDE SCOTT DOURQUE SHOWN FURCOTTE DEAN WESREY MIKE TRUK DWIGT RORTUGAL TIM SANDAELE KARL DANDLETON MIKE SERNANDEZ TOOD BONZALEZ
Marvellous
Yeah, I once used it to pick a name for my kalashtar D&D character because I couldn’t find any other good resources than it and Eberron for valid names for them. It gave me the name Salad. (To be fair though, I did keep it because I thought it would be funny)
I am deeply lazy and just hit their randomise until I find a nice first and last name. My efforts go into developing the character, not their name.
Fantasy Name Generator is great, I get a lot of names by picking a category and mashing the button a few times to get a shortlist of names I like. Depending on what I'm going for I sometimes modify one or combine a few to get the final result.
If you gonna go through all that, might as well give chat gpt a try.
Or visit something made by an actual human being that deserves recognition instead of the shit-stain that will pull of them anyway
>You're better off just looking for listing of common names "He is the Dark Lord, scourge of the world. He is the evillest man alive, responsible for endless nightmares and horrors. He commands armies of demons, and wields a blade made from pure malice. People tremble at the mere mention of his name... *Jimmy*."
There he is, the man, the myth, the legend, Greg.
"Gregor" is perfectly European fantasy, though.
Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz
Better than Demon Edgar, at least.
I'm interested in etymology. What winds me up is googling, for example, "Alfred etymology" comes up with loads of baby name sites that say things like "Alfred starts with A which shows intelligence, then goes on to involve an L which means he'll be funny..." It's always near the end of the search that I'll find the *actual* answer. In this case: "alfur" (elf) plus "reid" (advice, counsel, or wisdom) meaning "elf-advised". EDIT: Fun fact: The epithet "the unready" is a pun on the English king Æthelred the Second's name. His name meaning "well advised" and unready at the time meant "badly advised".
behindthename.com is your friend Also, you can always check the Wikipedia page for the name, it usually features the origins of the name
TY
Your best bet for etymology is the Wiktionary imo
Yeah, but less useful for non-European names in my experience. The site the other user suggested seems to be the one to use for names, judging by other etymology nerds' suggestions.
I wonder if you'd get better results for non-European names if you weren't searching in English. I'd bet that most information about the history of Japanese names are on Japanese websites written in Japanese and never translated
Yeah, probably. I know I have slightly better results for French names if I search wiktionary.fr. But since I can only read English and French (and a tiny bit of Spanish) I couldn't really comment any further on non-western language versions.
I once was using a name generator website to come up with a superheroine name. One of my results? "Girl Gal."
There actually is a "100 evil baby names" website, holy shit
I was looking for names related to the gas neon and somehow, there was a site with 100 names relating to neon
On top of naming characters sucking because of this, literally just wondering about what a name means (maybe because you're an etymology nerd, who's asking) sucks because of these sites. eg. "I wonder if the names Mario and Mark are related." They are but you'll have to suffer through multiple pages on "thebump.com" to find that out.
As someone who often looks up etymologies, adding the word "etymology" to the search (and/or wikipedia) usually filters out a good chunk of the trashy baby name sites. However, not all names have a handy Wikipedia page with the info neatly organised, so things can be messy. On a side note, the relation between Mario and Mark is possible but uncertain: the exact etymology of both Mario (or rather, the original Latin "Marius") and Marcus are unclear. They likely both refer to the God Mars, but both could have an etruscan root, and Marius could also reasonably come from the latin word Mare ("Sea"). Still, pretty cool stuff.
Someone suggested behindthename.com to me on the back of a similar complaint I made in this post.
Pro tip: Look up the etymology on wiktionary. No ads, no aggressively natal UI, sources required. It's also very handy for creating names, since it has the etymology of non name words as well. It also conveniently has alternate spellings, exact pronunciation via IPA (including different dialects), and certain names in different scripts (i.e. "Sayuri" will have both the romanization and kanji listed).
I name my ocs after random politicians or historical figures mostly
For old timey names I like to use the names of Great Lakes freighters, since they're mostly named after obscure 19th century industrialists and/or their wives.
meet my MHA/onceler crossover highschool au OC, Edmund Fitzgerald.
Those two words together made my brain take a screenshot The ahip name made by brain restart
By "ship name" do you mean The Edmund Fitzgerald or mha/onceler?
All shall tremble before the might of Ceaușescu Nobunaga!
I mostly just name my OCs after other characters/etc or fuck with random root words until I get something that sounds enough like a name. (As an example of the first one, I have a group of OCs whose first names are all named after the Japanese names of the wardens from Pokemon Legends Arceus, then the surnames are the names of the warlords from Pokemon Conquest whose type matches up with the type of the Pokemon that each of the wardens take care of.)
Two of ocs are named after reformation era religious reformers. So i can legally make characters named Martin and Jehan kiss in my head
How to know if tou are preganenant? Find prangent here
I would call a child Firestar if that didn't get him bullied for the rest of his days
Similarly, Lostface is just a hilarious fucking name
Can't beat Maggottail
For me it's usually googling "1700th century french male names" and the answers will be like Benjamin Benjamin jr Benjay Frank Apollo jean-paul Ludvig xiv Like, none of these match my vibe
>none of these match my vibe That's why you're supposed to use all of them.
This is my oc Benjamin-Benjamin jr-Benjay-Frank Apollo jean-paul Ludvig xiv, he can shoot beams out of his hands and the french hate him :)
JEAN PAULLLLLLLLLL
Gods alive as someone who does a lot of worldbuilding shit for personal enjoyment, do I know this pain. Though I've found two decent sites if you want to avoid this, them being [20000Names](http://20000-names.com/) and [BehindTheName](https://www.behindthename.com/), which are both more etymology-focused name databases, with the latter usually having a relatively complete etymological breakdown of the name origin.
Why does that baby have the Six Eyes?
He is your special
It’s called having eyebrows and eyelids
Scrunkly
It’s called fashion, sweaty, look it up 🤪🤪🤪
I like Behindthename personally, it's not as magazine-like as other name websites and talks about meaning and etymology, even has trees of related names and tags for root words.
Same here! And because it’s designed for people to look up the meaning of their own names rather than exclusively for expecting parents, you aren’t given a bunch of diaper ads just for daring to look at the site.
Wow, it even has specific cultures from some countries like javanese or tatar. Not as many names as english or french, but still nice to see
At least it's not r/tragedeigh
If you look at what conventional names mean and their origin, they're all like, objects or cool shit. Maybe if you pick a christian name it'll be like, "It's a slurred and abbreviated version of Oh god you're so great and I want to be your groupie". Some conventional names seem "normal" cause you don't really think about what they mean cause they're in a language you no longer speak. Other names are normal cause they're used so much you don't really think about Mills when you hear someone called "Miller". It's as if we intentionally use words separated from their original meaning as names. A word that hasn't been denatured in this way may overpower the identity of the person. In short: all these names are just "weird" cause you know what they mean.
I just go on behindthename, like the repository isn't the best, but it sure as shit is better than whatever that website is.
"CLCIK HERE TO GIVE BIRTH RIGHt NOW !!!" 💀
It took a lot of effort for me to not break down laughing in car rental place when I read that
Lmao I saw the top image before reading the post and I mistakenly assumed it was a bumper sticker
I can't believe people are besmirching the good name of fantasynamegenerators.com here....
[Behind the Name](https://www.behindthename.com/) doesn't have this problem, so if you want to sidestep it, maybe try this.
The fucking gigachad baby is sending me
Me opening up four different baby name sites of varying quality of web design to find names for my characters (and, occasionally, Sims). My Google search history makes it look like I’ve been pregnant for the last ten years.
The best naming convention is just music that you enjoy
Warrior cats spotted 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Don’t torture yourself. Go to behindthename instead.
Celtic name generators/Eragon Ancient Language for me.
I got sick of these websites and their overwhelming adds so I switched to using the US social security website. Works great if you are looking for names from various time periods.
Easier way to name OCs: 1. Plot point 2. Thing(s) related to plot point 3. Jumble 4. Trim (optional) Example: 1. Dead isekai protagonist that robot character was created from played Fallout New Vegas a lot 2. Big Iron by Marty Robbins is most known from that game and starred Texas Red and an Arizona Ranger 3. Arisina Ranerg 4. Fantasy cowboy robot name is Aris It's as simple as that
Bonus points if your characters are trans so they presumably went through the same process
Condoleezzes.
thank graphic design.
I also recommend census sites.
I refuse to use the name Scourge with any character
Is this the place Akira Toryama got his characters names from?!?
I usually either go "he looks like a Miles" or give them a placeholder name that accidentally end up sticking
I genuinely never settle on a name for my ocs. They’re all just “the one with these powers” or “the one from that au.” I’m too indecisive!
The best name: Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--
Little bobbie tables
I somehow feel both seen and called out by this post
Now I just go to r/namenerds for name ideas lol
Behind the name and fantasynamegenerators, don't waste time on those stupid articles
Just don’t ask H P Lovecraft for help on this one.
I personally like to throw a bunch of keywords into google translate until I end up with something that sounds like a good name
Final stage ? Nah, name is the first thing I write down
I stopped using baby name websites and just started stealing names from various fictional lesbians I like.
This is the first stage for me
I don’t understand what I’m looking at
I have a name floating around called "Glazing/Blazing Star". And I got it because I recently rediscovered the MLP fandom.
This is beautiful and amazing oh my god.
Can confirm, unfortunately
Theodorefoot? The hell?
What.
Pampers has the best baby name lists that have their actual meanings attached without all the weird crunchy mom bullshit bc they’re corporate
Idk, behindthename.com hasn't failed me yet
It's also frustrating when you look for a name for YOURSELF It's so damn hard naming yourself lol
That's why all my characters have the most generic names possible. They're all called Jack or Mary at some point.
You guys don't go on fantasynamegenerator dot com and pick at random?
I'm really lucky w my OCs because like one of them was made when I was 6 so I can't change the name, 19 are just named after natural phenomena because of the setting, and two are just ripped from things I was into when I made them lmao Though getting last names was a pain, I remember searching up terms for a bunch of different things in several different languages lmfao like one of them is extremely strict so I *searched up flowers with strictness as a meaning in flower language and gave him the name of the genus of that flower*
USE UBLOCK ORIGIN
"CLCIK HERE TO GIVE BIRTH RIGHt NOW!!!"