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Ruralin · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:17 am Post subject: Do you need help with names?

OK!!

If you need help with character names just come here and tell me the character's gender and personality, I'll soon get back to you with a list of names. A personality to match a name really adds grip to the reader's time.
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pommie42 · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject:

There are also many sites that list names from many different places in the world. One I use often is 20000names.com. i find these can be very useful indeed.
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Ruralin · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:13 am Post subject:

cool, what I like to do is match the personality of a character to it's name.
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pommie42 · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject:

The above site also includes the original meaning of the name... very useful it be.
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DarkWaltz · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:02 am Post subject:

Baby name books. So they give you a weird look when you buy one, but the ones that have the meanings, what their derived from, and what language they are originally, are amazing. Smile

I've used 2000names too, and I like it. I have a cool site for Irish names too that I found. Can't remember the address, grr.

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Figment · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

yeah, my mum had this baby name book that i kept "borrowing" from the cupboard and getting in trouble for it... Razz

It was called "20,001 names for baby", i loved that book, very helpful!
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Aurora Asha Ila · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:12 am Post subject:

Try this one... http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/ita3.php

It gives you background stuff as well...

They have heaps of different languages as well.
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DruidoftheAncientForest · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:34 am Post subject:

www.babynamesworld.com
If you go to the advanced search thingy, you can choose a meaning.
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Lady Nakara · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:27 am Post subject:

So I'm rewriting one of my novels in progress (Under the singing tree) and am definitely going to need help coming up with new names for characters. I won't need them for all the characters, just the formerly Arthurian ones. It would probably help to read it first.
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Kidashka · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject:

NEED CHARACTER NAME....

Evil or Very Mad

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Hawkins · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

I find for fantasy names, www.rinkworks.com/namegen is very helpful. And generators for literally EVERYTHING are at www.seventhsanctum.com; they have loads of generators. I mean, over a hundred.
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Kidashka · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:24 am Post subject:

Thank you!! I love those sites!

Very Happy

*favourites them*
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Hawkins · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:34 am Post subject:

I personally like rinkworks better for names; but seventh sanctum for everything else. Seventh sanctum doesn't always provide the greatest names...
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The Grey Dawn · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:45 am Post subject:

I used to use Seventh Sanctum, but it wasn't the best names, however, I got bored and wrote my process for name creation. It's lame, but it works so who cares.

Hawkins · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject:

That sounds neato; then I don't have to worry if anyone else gets the name from rinkworks. xD
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