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

Bimp (gnomish druid)
Blot (gnomish cleric)
Luna (elvish bard)
Zinnia (pixie sorceress)

And a few more from one-off games that I can't remember
 

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Wippit Guud said:
Anyone else notice about 50% of these names end in "a"?
Yup... I have one to add also and a small story behind it...

Loskeruina


Which was suppose to be Loskeruin but with it PbP, no one could remember that my charatcer was female... So an "a" was added and everyone did a much better job of remembering... Silly huh?

or maybe it's sad...
 
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jmucchiello said:
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).

+1 (from first names)

Asilud Sunnilda Gelud-Diedelindadottur
Asinarathi Greycloak

I like "a" sounds.

Cheers
Nell.
 


Nifft said:
All I have are NPCs:

Best know is a Human Paladin, Amelia Richelieu
Close second is a Halfling village Druid, Myrtle Siffleur
A protagonist's sister is named Chloe d'Avignon
The recently deceased Human Wizard Marie Delacour and her missing (presumed dead) sister Stephanie

-- Nifft

A little soft spot for french names I see? :)

Slim
 

Ok I've cleaned up the names a bit. Here's what I found out.

1) ~24% are names that are common in real life.
2) ~62% end in a vowel.
2b) ~42% end in "a".
3) ~6% are basically names that have a reference to an object of some sort (ex. Circle, Saffron, Cupcake, etc.).
3b) if we exclude these names, the percentages in 1), 2) and 2b) go up a little.
4) less than 10% of the names contain a "u".
5) more than half of the names contain an "e".

Anyone else have a question regarding female fantasy names?

Slim
 



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