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post Jul 28 2003, 08:43 PM
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If people want to start gathering names for incidental characters, but can't think of enough middle class American/ancient greek/sixteenth century irish/whatever names, they can post here for suggestions.

For example, if anyone would like to help my extreme name-related incompetence, what is the most classic ninteenth-century-esque English uppercrust name you can think of? (first, last, both, whatever) I'd be immensely grateful for anything you can think up, as I try to pick names to really fit certain characters.

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post Jul 29 2003, 09:45 PM
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Hyphenated names seem to sound awfully stuffy upper-crust. E.g. Sir Nicolas de Mimsy-Porpington, aka "Nearly Headless Nick," and a character in a mystery I recently read, "Peregrine Foggington-Smythe."

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nome   Name Help   Jul 28 2003, 08:43 PM
Guest_percival   Georgette Heyer and Regency romances tend to use R...   Jul 29 2003, 08:55 AM
percival   Georgette Heyer and Regency romances tend to use R...   Jul 29 2003, 08:57 AM
rdehwyll   Nigel Witherspoon Oscar Clappoole Lord Philander...   Jul 30 2003, 12:13 AM
percival   ok, now I need help - what are typical posh middle...   Jul 31 2003, 08:07 AM
Elenarda   Would names like 'Felicity' fit in with th...   Jul 31 2003, 09:33 AM
percival   Felicity sounds good - but what I'm mainly aft...   Jul 31 2003, 12:17 PM
Elenarda   Penelope   Jul 31 2003, 01:47 PM
b4zookajules   Susan, Elaine, Gillian... *names her friend's ...   Aug 2 2003, 10:06 PM
nome   I second the request for surnames! but for fi...   Aug 3 2003, 06:48 AM
Shimmer   Another good name website is Here. It lets you sea...   Aug 7 2003, 06:27 PM
rdehwyll   Surnames and where to find them -- My favorite...   Aug 7 2003, 07:07 PM
rdehwyll   Irish Names: Given names can be found here Irish ...   Aug 7 2003, 07:18 PM
b4zookajules   Thanks so much rdehwyll -- that's such a fanta...   Aug 8 2003, 08:15 PM
rdehwyll   America's top 1000 names from 1960's a...   Aug 20 2003, 10:09 PM

 

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