Name Help

[mlady_france]

New story idea, but I need some pirate names. I'm totally blanked out. I need a really villionous sounding Captian, his first mate, and a few lowly crew. Then another couple of captains and some officers. I've tried looking for name generators, but so far all the ones that I've found require you to put in a name and then they change it to something really lame like "Captian Billy Black". If anyone could help, I would greatly apreciate it.

 

[bisexplicit]

Sometimes just cruising through a baby name site will help.

Are you looking for stereotypical pirate names?

 

[mlady_france]

Sometimes just cruising through a baby name site will help.

Are you looking for stereotypical pirate names?

I'm trying to stay away from the stereotypical names, but then again, I don't want anything that doesn't sound authentic either. I just don't want anything cheesy or something that some one would say "oh well she got that from this book/movie/etc"

 

[sirhugs]

how about biblical first name: Solomon, Levi, Obadiah...all weighty, exotic.

Last name depends on ethnicity you want.

English might be a compound name, or one with the funny pronunciation: "Ffolkes-Truelove" or "Chestershire", though I think I prefer simple evocative names ( spoiled by Jack Sparrow?) : Hawkes. Wesley. Dover.

or another approach: Peregrine as first name. "Peregrine Hawkes"...I like that as the Cap'n.

The mate might be Lucifer Hokorn [Dutch for eagle].

crew names are easier: Jack Scarlett; Bob Whistle ; Davie Locke ; Pippen Goode; Sam Fellowes; Murph [single name only...he's a run away criminal] ; John Shanks....

 

[bisexplicit]

Edgar, Edward, Harold, Osborne, Osric, Redwald (I like that one especially), Sigric, Wayland, Wolfgar, Swayne, Thorne, Ward.

And then, with names like that you could could go Bloody Osric or Osric the bloody or something to make it all piratey.

 

[cloudy]

Look here.

That page is a list of links for all sort of nautical stuff: boats names (there's also a pirate ship name generator in there somewhere), "noted pirates, buccaneers, corsairs," and names of famous pirates.

It should give you somewhere to start, and you could always tweak it a little.

 

[mlady_france]

Thanks, all. I'm feeling a bit inspired.

 

[sirhugs]

The French Captains

Pierre Malvieux; Jean LaBiche ; Jacques De la Morte ; Emile Chausseur.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Pirates depend on who is defining them:

Henry Hawkins, Francis Drake, William Kidd

The most fearsom and successful was a man named, curiously enough, Roberts.

Willam teach a.k.a. Blackbeard, Jean Lafitte, Morgan, and Rawlins(sp?) were also successful.

 

[snooper]

... The most fearsom and successful was a man named, curiously enough, Roberts. ...

Yes, my late and not-often-lamented great-grandfather was a very successful pirate, largely because he did not drink (ever), and did not allow women on his ship.

 

[bisexplicit]

and did not allow women on his ship.

*coughs*

 

[sirhugs]

Women may be bad for discipline aboard ship, but they sure are good for Litworthiness

 

[TheCaptain]

Women may be bad for discipline aboard ship, but they sure are good for Litworthiness

That scene comes to mind with that sexy lil islander woman trying to get on board that ship-'o-war in Pirates of the Caribbean... she was uncovered by Jack, if my memory serves

I've read in a number of different swashbuckling novels that prostitutes sometimes like to pass themselves off as men, to slip on board vessels and 'service' some clientele

Capt

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Yes, my late and not-often-lamented great-grandfather was a very successful pirate, largely because he did not drink (ever), and did not allow women on his ship.

Snoop, if you please, I am drawing a blank on his first name and it's starting to aggravate me. I want to say Bertram or Bartholemew or something with a B.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Women may be bad for discipline aboard ship, but they sure are good for Litworthiness

My Pirate story worked well with a lady Captain.

Pirate ships were, perhaps, the most eglatarian of societies. the men voted for a captain. That captain could keep his place only by proving himself notonly as a good navagators and fighter, but by being lucky enough to keep the prizes coming.

Female buccaneers were rare, but in a society wehre any woman not dependant on a man were rare, there were a good number of them.

 

[sirhugs]

My Pirate story worked well with a lady Captain.

that's cause you wrote it.

 

[mlady_france]

I have been doing research on the time, and "pirate laws" and in order for my story to work I'm going to have to break a lot of them. What it really comes down to is do I go for historical acruacy or just play strictly on fantasy. Because of this, I've been trying to stay away from pirates that did exist. I'm kind of leaning in favor of my own fantastical plot rather than history.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I have been doing research on the time, and "pirate laws" and in order for my story to work I'm going to have to break a lot of them. What it really comes down to is do I go for historical acruacy or just play strictly on fantasy. Because of this, I've been trying to stay away from pirates that did exist. I'm kind of leaning in favor of my own fantastical plot rather than history.

In that case, I would say overplay your hand. Capt. Black Jack Sherack or Billy Bones. Go to the extreme with the names. Set your reader's mind into the less historically accurate, but more fun frame of mind from Robert Louis Stephenson.

 

[Lee Chambers]

There's a minatures game that some friends and I play called Pirates of the Spanish Main, with two expansion sets called Pirates of the Crimson Coast and Pirates of the Revolution. There are a number of characters in the game and I'll list them here by their nationality:

Spain: Comandante Luis De Alva, Master Gunner Rogelio Vazquez, Master Bianco (his crew was called Bianco's Haulers), Almirante Devante del Nero, El Duque Rafael de Moreno y Rivera

British: Admiral Morgan, Thomas Gunn the Elder, Thomas Gunn the Younger, Governor Lynch (commands a special unit of Royal Marines known as Lynch's Noose), Dr. Forbes Beattie

French: Vicomte Jules de Cissey, Monsieur LeNoir

Pirates: Angus Skyme AKA Captain Blackheart, El Fantasma, Gaspar Zuan, Fidel Zuan, Jack Hawkins, The Stump

I hope that helps!

 

[mlady_france]

There's a minatures game that some friends and I play called Pirates of the Spanish Main, with two expansion sets called Pirates of the Crimson Coast and Pirates of the Revolution. There are a number of characters in the game and I'll list them here by their nationality:

Spain: Comandante Luis De Alva, Master Gunner Rogelio Vazquez, Master Bianco (his crew was called Bianco's Haulers), Almirante Devante del Nero, El Duque Rafael de Moreno y Rivera

British: Admiral Morgan, Thomas Gunn the Elder, Thomas Gunn the Younger, Governor Lynch (commands a special unit of Royal Marines known as Lynch's Noose), Dr. Forbes Beattie

French: Vicomte Jules de Cissey, Monsieur LeNoir

Pirates: Angus Skyme AKA Captain Blackheart, El Fantasma, Gaspar Zuan, Fidel Zuan, Jack Hawkins, The Stump

I hope that helps!

You know, we sell that game in my shop and I never thought to look at it for insperation. Thanks.

 

[snooper]

Snoop, if you please, I am drawing a blank on his first name and it's starting to aggravate me. I want to say Bertram or Bartholemew or something with a B.

http://www.vleonica.com/roberts.htm

 

[snooper]

Of course, if you want to get the idea of a really villanous pirate over to the UK audience call him George Brown. After all the current one has spent eight years now robbing the poor to pay fat cat political advisors and PFI companies. And what was that other job title ... er ... begins with a C ends in NT and has U as one of its two middle letters ...


















Oh yes - I remember now - Consultant.

 

[Lee Chambers]

You know, we sell that game in my shop and I never thought to look at it for insperation. Thanks.

You're welcome. And it also has a lot of good ships names too. You can check the website of the company that makes it. They have a complete list of all the sets, so you won't have to go digging through the cards.