Creating a Custom Name List
AnnaM:
Quote from: Soylent Sim on 2007 June 12, 20:35:02
I was unaware that there would be a need for different male and female last names. Is this just my anglocentricism showing through, or is there much need for different surnames by sex?
The one that springs to my mind is Russian. Ulanov/Ulanova, and so on. Statistically, there must be other languages that do the same...
Khan of Wyrms:
Subtly suggestive definitely works for me, and are even more desirable, though they are harder to come by and more tricky to identify when scanning large lists for new candidates. I do have some scandalous foreign-translation surnames in play already, although some of these are made up names or just words used for names and therefore not as desirable. Not every name need or can be as luridly descriptive as 'Rayphole' or 'Cockburn', and I can definitely appreciate a name if it just has an interesting sound or unique cadence. A name can be just 'cool' like 'Ravenscroft', for instance, and that is good enough for me.
It is very often that the use of a great surname is, for myself, one of the main things that can determine if I actually play a family beyond moving them into a house.
Perhaps if I get some time later I will compose a more extensive list and post it here, since there seems to be at least a modicum of interest and, given the opportunity, Hegelian did not object.
Sagana:
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The one that springs to my mind is Russian. Ulanov/Ulanova, and so on. Statistically, there must be other languages that do the same...
I believe in Iceland they still use a traditional naming scheme that includes "jonsdattir or svensdottir and stefansson or helgarsonur, depending on the child's gender, so definate need for a different list male to female.
jrd:
Yeah, Iceland doesn't have last names, but patrinomics.
In the Live.package I have uploaded the male and female last name lists are identical, in my own version there is a difference in them as I offset the female last names by half (to avoid even more cases of duplicate last names).
J. M. Pescado:
Could be worse. You could end up like Major Major Major Major.
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