[Pseudo-poll]/[Study] Female Fantasy Names

[S'mon]

My Neverwinter Nights PCs:

Mimi Rogers
Shakri Jameson

Generally for female NPC character names I tend to be lazy and use Latinate -a or -ia endings and lots of vowels, names like Saria (from my game on Sunday). For more important NPCs I'll tend to aim for a distinctive, stronger sound.

 

[randomling]

The names of my fantasy game characters? OK.

Xhila Galadon (CG elf bard/wizard, Greyhawk)
Shay Peral (N human cleric of Boccob, Greyhawk)
Assia Salhi (NE human rogue, FR)
Teyin, forgot her last name (NG half-elf fighter, FR)
Maryse Lithine (N human rogue, homebrew campaign)
Serena Allman (LG human psion, Planescape)
Thana Aulen (NG human fighter, homebrew campaign)

 

[bekkilyn_rpg]

Zani
Alessa
Rhiannon

 

[Wombat]

Julia Peregrina
Elspet
Evvy
Amentia
Cupcake (but that was Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0...)
Haswythia
Feregund
Sanara
Seraphina

Anyone else would be NPCs, which I have by the hundreds...

Funny -- I just realized that half of the characters I have gotten to play (and all the most memorable) have been female...

 

[MarauderX]

from 3.0E:
Annastasia
Zehnya

 

[Phaedyme]

Anjelika
Anya
Xenia
Cat
Iron Grace Scarlet
Candace
Lydia
Lucille

 

[root]

Alexandria
Alassra

 

[Wippit Guud]

Anyone else notice about 50% of these names end in "a"?

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

Perpetua Val'holryn
Thetis Grek
Sharalia Clearsky (I probably shouldn't admit to having plagiarized people on these boards but I did--I never expected the character to last as long as she did)
Anya Inorien

 

[jmucchiello]

Anyone else notice about 50% of these names end in "a"?

It's far more interesting to count the number of 'U's in the names. It's less then 10 so far if you ignore names that are English words (e.g. cupcake).