Last Names

[sweetnpetite]

I've kept lists of first names and words I like, but it never occured to me to keep a list of intereting last names until I ran into this one: (see below) Feel free to add you're own favorites to the list.


Walljasper.





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[sweetnpetite]

what sources to you use when looking for last names for your characters?

 

[Dar~]

My last name is Pipinich

When I am looking for last names for a character I just look for something that flows and kind of accents the type of character I am tryign to portray.

 

[cantdog]

I wrote about Svobodas. Svoboda means 'freedom' in Hungarian or some language like that. I knew a Svoboda and his beautiful sister, and I liked them. But Freedom is a hell of a name, and Free is what I saw the character wanting to be.

cantdog

 

[sweetnpetite]

My last name is Pipinich

When I am looking for last names for a character I just look for something that flows and kind of accents the type of character I am tryign to portray.

for example?

 

[sweetnpetite]

I wrote about Svobodas. Svoboda means 'freedom' in Hungarian or some language like that. I knew a Svoboda and his beautiful sister, and I liked them. But Freedom is a hell of a name, and Free is what I saw the character wanting to be.

cantdog

I think Freedom is a good first name.

I might use that

 

[Weird Harold]

what sources to you use when looking for last names for your characters?

If I have to look for a last name, I drop a Las Vegas Phone book and see what names are on the page it falls open to.

But I seldom have to look for name. Names have power and I choose them carefully with malice forethought.

 

[Dar~]

most of the time I just have them come to me. It's weird I will just hear a name in my head and it fits what I am looking for. I like it but it's kind of eerie.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Doesn't anyone have any cool names they want to list?

Come on

 

[Liar]

I start with the last name, picked pretty much by random from the character's demographic group (an eskimo is not named Mendez, that sorta thing) and then I find a first name that sounds good phonetically with it. That's pretty much how it goes in real life, the first name matches the last name. So that's good enuff for me.

 

[Op_Cit]

I always thought names without vowels are kind of cool. Like "Smrz" (saw it in a movie credit).

Then there's Dimmesdale, Grumby, and Drinkwater.

Some of the better ones are those used by Tolkien.