#surnames — Public Fediverse posts
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Newlywed couple has their families compete to see who takes their partner’s last name
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Does the name of Hungary’s next PM really translate as Peter Hungarian?
In short: yes. And although his party’s election victory a few weeks ago was truly unprecedented, Péter Magyar’s last name is not nearly as unique as it may sound to foreign ears.
A quick overview of the history of Hungarian surnames will likely shed some light on why this is so.
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Does the name of Hungary’s next PM really translate as Peter Hungarian?
In short: yes. And although his party’s election victory a few weeks ago was truly unprecedented, Péter Magyar’s last name is not nearly as unique as it may sound to foreign ears.
A quick overview of the history of Hungarian surnames will likely shed some light on why this is so.
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Does the name of Hungary’s next PM really translate as Peter Hungarian?
In short: yes. And although his party’s election victory a few weeks ago was truly unprecedented, Péter Magyar’s last name is not nearly as unique as it may sound to foreign ears.
A quick overview of the history of Hungarian surnames will likely shed some light on why this is so.
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Does the name of Hungary’s next PM really translate as Peter Hungarian?
In short: yes. And although his party’s election victory a few weeks ago was truly unprecedented, Péter Magyar’s last name is not nearly as unique as it may sound to foreign ears.
A quick overview of the history of Hungarian surnames will likely shed some light on why this is so.
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Does the name of Hungary’s next PM really translate as Peter Hungarian?
In short: yes. And although his party’s election victory a few weeks ago was truly unprecedented, Péter Magyar’s last name is not nearly as unique as it may sound to foreign ears.
A quick overview of the history of Hungarian surnames will likely shed some light on why this is so.
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Hype for the Future 157/284: More Content on futoTopFlex
Introduction At https://www.youtube.com/@novaTopFlex, new content is slated for surname information associated with the Scottish Lowlands, as well as England, Wales, and the Channel Islands (Ireland has already been referred to separately). Surname Content The content will also be available in a paid format at https://www.patreon.com/@novaTopFlex to serve the reading community, as well as to provide spellings where the spellings in the audio may already be ambiguous. -
Hype for the Future 157/284: More Content on futoTopFlex
Introduction At https://www.youtube.com/@novaTopFlex, new content is slated for surname information associated with the Scottish Lowlands, as well as England, Wales, and the Channel Islands (Ireland has already been referred to separately). Surname Content The content will also be available in a paid format at https://www.patreon.com/@novaTopFlex to serve the reading community, as well as to provide spellings where the spellings in the audio may already be ambiguous. -
Hype for the Future 157/284: More Content on futoTopFlex
Introduction At https://www.youtube.com/@novaTopFlex, new content is slated for surname information associated with the Scottish Lowlands, as well as England, Wales, and the Channel Islands (Ireland has already been referred to separately). Surname Content The content will also be available in a paid format at https://www.patreon.com/@novaTopFlex to serve the reading community, as well as to provide spellings where the spellings in the audio may already be ambiguous. -
Hype for the Future 157/284: More Content on futoTopFlex
Introduction At https://www.youtube.com/@novaTopFlex, new content is slated for surname information associated with the Scottish Lowlands, as well as England, Wales, and the Channel Islands (Ireland has already been referred to separately). Surname Content The content will also be available in a paid format at https://www.patreon.com/@novaTopFlex to serve the reading community, as well as to provide spellings where the spellings in the audio may already be ambiguous. -
Hype for the Future 157/284: More Content on futoTopFlex
Introduction At https://www.youtube.com/@novaTopFlex, new content is slated for surname information associated with the Scottish Lowlands, as well as England, Wales, and the Channel Islands (Ireland has already been referred to separately). Surname Content The content will also be available in a paid format at https://www.patreon.com/@novaTopFlex to serve the reading community, as well as to provide spellings where the spellings in the audio may already be ambiguous. -
Examine the frequencies of various surname groups in the United Kingdom and Ireland to determine where and when your paternal ancestors lived #surnames
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Examine the frequencies of various surname groups in the United Kingdom and Ireland to determine where and when your paternal ancestors lived #surnames
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Examine the frequencies of various surname groups in the United Kingdom and Ireland to determine where and when your paternal ancestors lived #surnames
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Examine the frequencies of various surname groups in the United Kingdom and Ireland to determine where and when your paternal ancestors lived #surnames
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Examine the frequencies of various surname groups in the United Kingdom and Ireland to determine where and when your paternal ancestors lived #surnames
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#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
Gunter
* Gunter or Günter is a masculine given name and a surname, which may refer to: -
Largest cities and towns whose name ends with double “ee”
Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Source: en.wikipedia.orgListed below are the most populous cities and towns whose name ends in a double “ee.”
All the population figures are estimates from 2025, except where noted. Many place names that end in a double “ee” are derived from Native America words and/or terms. In other cases, they may be from the last name of a person. For those cities and towns where the Native American meanings is known, it is provided in italics next to the place name.
Thirty-nine (39) states are represented on the list with the most of the examples come from the Southeastern United States and Oklahoma where double “ee” is often translated from Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole languages. A good number also come from the Midwest for the Algonquin-related languages.
In English, “tree” appears to be the most common (non surname) term that creates a double “ee” ending for a city/town name.
As always, any additions, suggestions, or corrections are most welcome. After scanning numerous lists, it is always possible that some names may be overlooked.
Peace!
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Milwaukee (good land), WI = 550,837
Tallahassee (old/great town), FL = 205,079
Dundee, Scotland = 147,710
Menifee, CA = 120,236
Kissimmee (long water), FL = 82,639
Shawnee, KS = 70,731
Chicopee, MA = 54,636
Braintree, England = 53,477
Ocoee (apricot vine place), FL = 50,421
Shakopee, MN = 49,222
Palm Tree, NY = 47,517
Chattahoochee (painted rock) Plantation Estates, GA = 46,436 (2020)
Peachtree Corners, GA = 42,067
Peachtree City, GA = 41,409
Menomonee (people of the wild rice) Falls, WI = 40,438
Fort Lee, NJ = 39,754
Braintree, MA = 38,264
Muskogee, OK = 36,923
Waukee (good land – shortened version of Milwaukee), IA = 36,488
Wenatchee (river flowing from canyon), WA = 35,519
Chamblee, GA = 32,927
Shawnee, OK = 32,125
Gurnee, IL = 29,885
Immokalee (my/your home), FL = 28,653
Nocatee (peaceful river), FL = 27,556
Socastee, SC = 25,592
Suwanee (echo or river), GA = 24,178
Kankakee (open country), IL = 23,168
Candler-McAfee, GA = 22,628
South Milwaukee, WI = 19,835
Dee Why, Australia = 17,463
Taree, Australia = 16,621
Pewaukee (lake of shells), WI = 16,531
Mashpee, MA = 15,312
Waunakee (pleasant location), WI = 15,299
Greater Napanee (much flour), ON, Canada = 14,848
Yulee, FL = 14,347
East Wenatchee, WA = 14,090
Lone Tree, CO = 13,918
Maumee, OH = 13,480
Monee Ponds, Australia = 13,352
Coogee, Australia = 13,179
Kewanee (prairie chicken), IL = 12,064
Okmulgee (bubbling/boiling waters), OK = 11,433
Tuskegee (warriors), AL = 8,383
Pewaukee Village, WI = 8,165
Menominee, MI = 8,036
Fort Shawnee, OH = 7,974
Three Rivers, MI = 7,900
West Dundee, IL = 7,884
Cullowhee, NC = 6,837
Nappanee (much flour), IN = 6,818
Silsbee, TX = 6,667
Dundee, FL = 6,557
Dundee, MI = 6,385
Manistee (river with islands at its mouth), MI = 6,283
Lee, NY = 5,945
Okeechobee (big water), FL = 5,836
Lee, MA = 5,642
Pahokee (grassy waters), FL = 5,580
Cherokee, IA = 5,148
Moxee, WA = 5,115
Orangetree, FL = 5,060
Bisbee, AZ = 5,042
Cherokee Village, AR = 5,033
Three Points, AZ = 4,980
Okauchee Lake, WI = 4,757
Tallassee (old/great town), AL = 4,731
Combee Settlement, FL = 4,706
Green Tree, PA = 4,639
Lee, NH = 4,616
Ossipee, NH = 4,609
Lee Acres, NM = 4,608
Mosinee, WI = 4,570
Lake Panasoffkee (valley of water), FL = 4,328
Euharlee (laughing creek/stream), GA = 4,094
West Milwaukee, WI = 3,922
Magee, MS = 3,887
Keowee (place of the mulberries) Key, SC = 3,834
Chattahoochee Hills, GA = 3,620
Carefree, AZ = 3,612
Genesee (good/pleasant valley), CO = 3,610 (2020)
Loxahatchee (river of turtles) Groves, FL = 3,515
Sunapee (goose lake), NH = 3,468
Lake Cherokee, TX = 3,407
Negaunee (leading), MI = 3,303
Pistakee (buffalo) Highlands, IL = 3,252
Three Hills, AB, Canada = 3,171 (2021)
East Dundee, IL = 3,073
Chattahoochee, FL = 3,021
Chaffee, MO = 3,006
Kingstree, SC = 2,966
Kewaunee (prairie chicken), WI = 2,780
Shawnee Hills, OH = 2,665
Loogootee, IN = 2,628
Follansbee, WV = 2,595
Three Rivers, CA = 2,574
South Congaree, SC = 2,392
Raintree Plantation, MO = 2,288
Manatee Road, FL = 2,035
Three Forks, MT = 1,988
Pawnee, OK = 1,951
Tyhee, ID = 1,836
Three Rivers, TX = 1,750
Dundee, NY = 1,670
Pewee Valley, KY = 1,664
Genesee, NY = 1,589
Conestee, SC = 1,515
Moosonee (at the Moose River), ON, Canada = 1,512 (2021)
Sebree, KY = 1,501
Cherokee, NC = 1,470
LaChee, AZ = 1,455
Cherokee, OK = 1,430
Three Oaks, MI = 1,371
Old River-Winfree, TX = 1,359
Tennessee Ridge, TN = 1,355
Lone Tree, IA = 1,326
Frazee, MN = 1,294
Lacoochee (crooked river) , FL = 1,263
Willacoochee (home of wildcats), GA = 1,243
Chokoloskee (old house), FL = 1,236
Coulee Dam, WA = 1,229
Ohatchee (upper steam), AL = 1,224
Braintree, VT = 1,218
Cateechee (deer’s head), SC = 1,216
South Wenatchee, WA = 1,196
Shawnee, OH = 1,111
Genesee, ID = 1,105
Yemassee (gentle/tame), SC = 1,073
Fairlee, VT = 1,060
Robert Lee, TX = 1,039
Owyhee, NV = 1,027
Hiawassee, GA = 1,012
Cooleemee (place where white oaks grow), NC = 993
Shawnee Hills, OH = 965
Cherokee, AL = 962
Chesnee (oak grove), SC = 949
Grand Coulee, WA = 946
Lee, ME = 907
Kekoskee, WI = 891
Weeki Wachee (little spring) Gardens, FL = 872
Pawnee City, NE = 834
McKee, KY = 803
Santee, SC and Absarokee, MT = 799
Wedowee (old water), AL = 754
Arlee, MT = 707
Wanblee (eagle), SD = 645
Ochlocknee (yellow waters), GA = 677
Ivalee (ivy plant), AL = 640
West Fairlee, VT = 635
Wausaukee (river in the hills/rolling hills), WI = 597
North Santee, SC = 588
Ossipee, NC = 570
Coulee City, WA = 551
Elloree (home I love), SC = 538
Sautee-Nacoochee, GA = 517
Withee, WI = 495
Clayhatchee (clay creek), AL = 487
Dupree, SD = 466
Olustee (black water), OK = 462
Higbee, MO = 441
Dundee, OH = 443
Santee, NE = 425
Miccosukee (elder brother or king’s voice), FL = 405
Genesee Falls, NY = 395
Entree, SC = 385
Steinhatchee, FL and Bent Tree Harbor, MO = 381
Centralhatchee, GA = 380
Wounded Knee, SD = 377
Fort Coffee, OK = 354
Menifee, AR = 310
Keokee (our daughter), VA = 305
Lee, IL = 301
Boligee (cut to pieces), AL = 269
Cherry Tree, PA = 267
Milwaukee, NC = 256
Coffee City, TX = 253
Mantee, MS = 244
Sand Coulee, MT = 226
Menominee, IL = 210
Packwaukee (shallow land), WI = 194
Pawnee Rock, KS = 186
Free Union, VA = 185
Oconee (land beside water), GA = 179
Goree, TX = 158
Camp Three, MT = 150
Canoochee (little ground), GA = 130
Tullahassee (old town), OK = 115
Blakeslee, OH = 101
Bisbee, ND = 96
Waumandee (war eagle), WI = 89
Naponee (much flour), NE = 85
Pawnee, TX = 80
Dundee, MN = 76
Skedee, OK = 65
Wabaunsee, KS = 58
Badger Lee, OK and Dundee, MS = 56
Ohoopee (bubbling water), GA = 48
Coffee Creek, MT = 47
Hiwassee (meadow/broad meadow), VA = 42
Cherokee City, AR = 39
Cherokee Falls, SC = 38
Floweree, MT = 27
Brownlee, NE = 9
Lotsee, OK = 4
Narcoossee, FL – unknown
Hot Coffee, MS – unknown
SOURCES:
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/
- en.wikipedia.org
- gemini.google.ai
- http://www.google.com
- 2025 Rand McNally Road Atlas
- Personal knowledge
#Braintree #Chicopee #cities #doubleEe_ #Dundee #geography #history #Kissimmee #language #Menifee #Milwaukee #NativeAmericans #placeNames #places #Shawnee #surnames #Tallahassee #terms #towns
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Largest cities and towns whose name ends with double “ee”
Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Source: en.wikipedia.orgListed below are the most populous cities and towns whose name ends in a double “ee.”
All the population figures are estimates from 2025, except where noted. Many place names that end in a double “ee” are derived from Native America words and/or terms. In other cases, they may be from the last name of a person. For those cities and towns where the Native American meanings is known, it is provided in italics next to the place name.
Thirty-nine (39) states are represented on the list with the most of the examples come from the Southeastern United States and Oklahoma where double “ee” is often translated from Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole languages. A good number also come from the Midwest for the Algonquin-related languages.
In English, “tree” appears to be the most common (non surname) term that creates a double “ee” ending for a city/town name.
As always, any additions, suggestions, or corrections are most welcome. After scanning numerous lists, it is always possible that some names may be overlooked.
Peace!
——-
Milwaukee (good land), WI = 550,837
Tallahassee (old/great town), FL = 205,079
Dundee, Scotland = 147,710
Menifee, CA = 120,236
Kissimmee (long water), FL = 82,639
Shawnee, KS = 70,731
Chicopee, MA = 54,636
Braintree, England = 53,477
Ocoee (apricot vine place), FL = 50,421
Shakopee, MN = 49,222
Palm Tree, NY = 47,517
Chattahoochee (painted rock) Plantation Estates, GA = 46,436 (2020)
Peachtree Corners, GA = 42,067
Peachtree City, GA = 41,409
Menomonee (people of the wild rice) Falls, WI = 40,438
Fort Lee, NJ = 39,754
Braintree, MA = 38,264
Muskogee, OK = 36,923
Waukee (good land – shortened version of Milwaukee), IA = 36,488
Wenatchee (river flowing from canyon), WA = 35,519
Chamblee, GA = 32,927
Shawnee, OK = 32,125
Gurnee, IL = 29,885
Immokalee (my/your home), FL = 28,653
Nocatee (peaceful river), FL = 27,556
Socastee, SC = 25,592
Suwanee (echo or river), GA = 24,178
Kankakee (open country), IL = 23,168
Candler-McAfee, GA = 22,628
South Milwaukee, WI = 19,835
Dee Why, Australia = 17,463
Taree, Australia = 16,621
Pewaukee (lake of shells), WI = 16,531
Mashpee, MA = 15,312
Waunakee (pleasant location), WI = 15,299
Greater Napanee (much flour), ON, Canada = 14,848
Yulee, FL = 14,347
East Wenatchee, WA = 14,090
Lone Tree, CO = 13,918
Maumee, OH = 13,480
Monee Ponds, Australia = 13,352
Coogee, Australia = 13,179
Kewanee (prairie chicken), IL = 12,064
Okmulgee (bubbling/boiling waters), OK = 11,433
Tuskegee (warriors), AL = 8,383
Pewaukee Village, WI = 8,165
Menominee, MI = 8,036
Fort Shawnee, OH = 7,974
Three Rivers, MI = 7,900
West Dundee, IL = 7,884
Cullowhee, NC = 6,837
Nappanee (much flour), IN = 6,818
Silsbee, TX = 6,667
Dundee, FL = 6,557
Dundee, MI = 6,385
Manistee (river with islands at its mouth), MI = 6,283
Lee, NY = 5,945
Okeechobee (big water), FL = 5,836
Lee, MA = 5,642
Pahokee (grassy waters), FL = 5,580
Cherokee, IA = 5,148
Moxee, WA = 5,115
Orangetree, FL = 5,060
Bisbee, AZ = 5,042
Cherokee Village, AR = 5,033
Three Points, AZ = 4,980
Okauchee Lake, WI = 4,757
Tallassee (old/great town), AL = 4,731
Combee Settlement, FL = 4,706
Green Tree, PA = 4,639
Lee, NH = 4,616
Ossipee, NH = 4,609
Lee Acres, NM = 4,608
Mosinee, WI = 4,570
Lake Panasoffkee (valley of water), FL = 4,328
Euharlee (laughing creek/stream), GA = 4,094
West Milwaukee, WI = 3,922
Magee, MS = 3,887
Keowee (place of the mulberries) Key, SC = 3,834
Chattahoochee Hills, GA = 3,620
Carefree, AZ = 3,612
Genesee (good/pleasant valley), CO = 3,610 (2020)
Loxahatchee (river of turtles) Groves, FL = 3,515
Sunapee (goose lake), NH = 3,468
Lake Cherokee, TX = 3,407
Negaunee (leading), MI = 3,303
Pistakee (buffalo) Highlands, IL = 3,252
Three Hills, AB, Canada = 3,171 (2021)
East Dundee, IL = 3,073
Chattahoochee, FL = 3,021
Chaffee, MO = 3,006
Kingstree, SC = 2,966
Kewaunee (prairie chicken), WI = 2,780
Shawnee Hills, OH = 2,665
Loogootee, IN = 2,628
Follansbee, WV = 2,595
Three Rivers, CA = 2,574
South Congaree, SC = 2,392
Raintree Plantation, MO = 2,288
Manatee Road, FL = 2,035
Three Forks, MT = 1,988
Pawnee, OK = 1,951
Tyhee, ID = 1,836
Three Rivers, TX = 1,750
Dundee, NY = 1,670
Pewee Valley, KY = 1,664
Genesee, NY = 1,589
Conestee, SC = 1,515
Moosonee (at the Moose River), ON, Canada = 1,512 (2021)
Sebree, KY = 1,501
Cherokee, NC = 1,470
LaChee, AZ = 1,455
Cherokee, OK = 1,430
Three Oaks, MI = 1,371
Old River-Winfree, TX = 1,359
Tennessee Ridge, TN = 1,355
Lone Tree, IA = 1,326
Frazee, MN = 1,294
Lacoochee (crooked river) , FL = 1,263
Willacoochee (home of wildcats), GA = 1,243
Chokoloskee (old house), FL = 1,236
Coulee Dam, WA = 1,229
Ohatchee (upper steam), AL = 1,224
Braintree, VT = 1,218
Cateechee (deer’s head), SC = 1,216
South Wenatchee, WA = 1,196
Shawnee, OH = 1,111
Genesee, ID = 1,105
Yemassee (gentle/tame), SC = 1,073
Fairlee, VT = 1,060
Robert Lee, TX = 1,039
Owyhee, NV = 1,027
Hiawassee, GA = 1,012
Cooleemee (place where white oaks grow), NC = 993
Shawnee Hills, OH = 965
Cherokee, AL = 962
Chesnee (oak grove), SC = 949
Grand Coulee, WA = 946
Lee, ME = 907
Kekoskee, WI = 891
Weeki Wachee (little spring) Gardens, FL = 872
Pawnee City, NE = 834
McKee, KY = 803
Santee, SC and Absarokee, MT = 799
Wedowee (old water), AL = 754
Arlee, MT = 707
Wanblee (eagle), SD = 645
Ochlocknee (yellow waters), GA = 677
Ivalee (ivy plant), AL = 640
West Fairlee, VT = 635
Wausaukee (river in the hills/rolling hills), WI = 597
North Santee, SC = 588
Ossipee, NC = 570
Coulee City, WA = 551
Elloree (home I love), SC = 538
Sautee-Nacoochee, GA = 517
Withee, WI = 495
Clayhatchee (clay creek), AL = 487
Dupree, SD = 466
Olustee (black water), OK = 462
Higbee, MO = 441
Dundee, OH = 443
Santee, NE = 425
Miccosukee (elder brother or king’s voice), FL = 405
Genesee Falls, NY = 395
Entree, SC = 385
Steinhatchee, FL and Bent Tree Harbor, MO = 381
Centralhatchee, GA = 380
Wounded Knee, SD = 377
Fort Coffee, OK = 354
Menifee, AR = 310
Keokee (our daughter), VA = 305
Lee, IL = 301
Boligee (cut to pieces), AL = 269
Cherry Tree, PA = 267
Milwaukee, NC = 256
Coffee City, TX = 253
Mantee, MS = 244
Sand Coulee, MT = 226
Menominee, IL = 210
Packwaukee (shallow land), WI = 194
Pawnee Rock, KS = 186
Free Union, VA = 185
Oconee (land beside water), GA = 179
Goree, TX = 158
Camp Three, MT = 150
Canoochee (little ground), GA = 130
Tullahassee (old town), OK = 115
Blakeslee, OH = 101
Bisbee, ND = 96
Waumandee (war eagle), WI = 89
Naponee (much flour), NE = 85
Pawnee, TX = 80
Dundee, MN = 76
Skedee, OK = 65
Wabaunsee, KS = 58
Badger Lee, OK and Dundee, MS = 56
Ohoopee (bubbling water), GA = 48
Coffee Creek, MT = 47
Hiwassee (meadow/broad meadow), VA = 42
Cherokee City, AR = 39
Cherokee Falls, SC = 38
Floweree, MT = 27
Brownlee, NE = 9
Lotsee, OK = 4
Narcoossee, FL – unknown
Hot Coffee, MS – unknown
SOURCES:
- https://worldpopulationreview.com/
- en.wikipedia.org
- gemini.google.ai
- http://www.google.com
- 2025 Rand McNally Road Atlas
- Personal knowledge
#Braintree #Chicopee #cities #doubleEe_ #Dundee #geography #history #Kissimmee #language #Menifee #Milwaukee #NativeAmericans #placeNames #places #Shawnee #surnames #Tallahassee #terms #towns
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You've heard of double-barrelled surnames, maybe you've even heard of triple-barrelled surnames (hello, Ralph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes) but have you ever heard of a quintuple-barrelled surname?
Behold the Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family... and their coat of arms, not so much quartered (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartering_(heraldry)) as sliced and diced and finely minced.
#names #surnames #heraldry #history -
You've heard of double-barrelled surnames, maybe you've even heard of triple-barrelled surnames (hello, Ralph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes) but have you ever heard of a quintuple-barrelled surname?
Behold the Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family... and their coat of arms, not so much quartered (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartering_(heraldry)) as sliced and diced and finely minced.
#names #surnames #heraldry #history -
You've heard of double-barrelled surnames, maybe you've even heard of triple-barrelled surnames (hello, Ralph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes) but have you ever heard of a quintuple-barrelled surname?
Behold the Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family... and their coat of arms, not so much quartered (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartering_(heraldry)) as sliced and diced and finely minced.
#names #surnames #heraldry #history -
Fuller Names: Names that do more
You’ve heard of full names but let me introduce you to even fuller names.
In Iain M. Banks‘s Culture novels, names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up [ref]. This got me thinking about the roles of names in the age of The Internet. There is a lot of pressure on parents (well some parents) to give their children unique names these days. Mostly this results in some questionable name choices. Add to that the push for a unique personal brand, chosen handles, nicknames, deadnames, and all the other naming stuff. This left me wondering if Mr Banks might not have had a good idea we can use.
For fun, I thought I would see if I could work out a structure for a naming system that could be a unique route/reference to a single person. That got me thinking of other fiction that does interesting or cool things with names and titles.
I’m going to start with a list of name things that could be used:
- Given name (or new name) [Legal Name]
- Family name (surname) [Family]
- Nickname and/or handle(s) [Handle]
- Title(s) (Mr, Mrs, Mx, Ms, Lord, HRH etc.) [Title]
- Chosen name [Known As]
- Location [Address Parts]
- Birthplace [Birthplace]
- Career or profession [Profession]
- Parents [Father] [Mother]
- Employer [Employer]
- Pronouns
- Notable activities [Activities]
- DNS/Profile [Lookup Request Service]
- Letters after name [LAN]
- Esquire (perhaps)
The basics
The first few should be relatively obvious, For example, you might refer to me as Mr Matthew David “Lord Matt” Brown. That’s the first four – all common name and title things.
Then we get to known as. I tend to go by Matt.
Address parts
Address parts are the section of naming inspired by Iain M. Banks. I suppose that the address section could have many parts the use of which could be optional because not all of us want to doxx ourselves. In this imaginary world, the full address part of the name is used for official stuff (like opening a line of credit, utility billing, voter registration, etc.
Culture names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up. Let’s take an example; Balveda, from Consider Phlebas. Her full name is Juboal-Rabaroansa Perosteck Alseyn Balveda dam T’seif. The first part tells you she was born/brought up on Rabaroan Plate, in the Juboal stellar system (where there is only one Orbital in a system, the first part of a name will often be the name of the Orbital rather than the star); Perosteck is her given name (almost invariably the choice of one’s mother), Alseyn is her chosen name (people usually choose their names in their teens, and sometimes have a succession through their lives; an alseyn is a graceful but fierce avian raptor common to many Orbitals in the region which includes the Juboal system); Balveda is her family name (usually one’s mother’s family name) and T’seif is the house/estate she was raised within. The ‘sa’ affix on the first part of her name would translate into ‘er’ in English (we might all start our names with ‘Sun-Earther’, in English, if we were to adopt the same nomenclature), and the ‘dam’ part is similar to the German ‘von’. Of course, not everyone follows this naming-system, but most do, and the Culture tries to ensure that star and Orbital names are unique, to avoid confusion.
Using Banks’s system we would all acquire Sun-Earther as part of our location name or Sol-3 perhaps. I took inspiration from history for birthplace and differed from Banks slightly. See Birthplace for more of my ideas there. I justify differing in that (1) there is no reason not to riff on the idea and (2) “not everyone follows this naming-system” so we are still canonical if we too differ.
One fun idea might be to play with postcodes. Most countries have them. Many that have postcodes (zip codes in the US) have letters in them. For those with letters, one could substitute words for each letter.
For example, my postcode area is CT9. So I could choose to render that at Character Transcriber as a reference to both TTRPGs and my writing.
For brevity (acknowledging the irony here), it would probably be traditional to include the minimum needed lines to find you. On top of that, it might be optional just how much you include.
For example, you live at 237 Madeup Street, Somecounty, Smalltown, AB1 2CD. You might choose to render that as Madeup Smalltown A Brilliant (1/2) Cool Dude. Or you may choose to forego the address most of the time.
Birthplace
This one is a nod back to the invention of surnames. My reference here is Leonardo da Vinci whose name means Leonardo from Venice. Thus, part of your name could be “de [Birthplace]”.
Career or profession
This is another nod back to the invention of surnames. Many surnames trace their origin to professions. Names like Smith, Brown, Baker, Tailor, etc..
As a bonus this part of your fuller name answers the two most common questions, “Who are you?” and “What do you do?”.
Parents
Another early surname thing but also something nerdy and sci-fi. #
Surnames such as Johnson, Matthewson, Babson, and so forth first came about to define a person by who a parent was.
No for the sci-fi bit. In Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, we meet the Nietzscheans who carry the names of their parents. This takes the form of [Name] from [Father] out of [Mother]. You can add that to your fuller name.
I guess you could also add professions for your parents too.
That would make mine by John the artist out of Rosemary the teacher
Employer
For Employer as part of your name, we look to Max Barry’s book Jennifer Government. In Barry’s setting people take their employer as their surname. Guess who Jennifer works for…
As we are not a dystopia, perhaps a fuller name might hyphenate the employer with the family name. For me, that would be Brown-Self (as I do not work for a company).
Esquire
Esquire is sometimes used as a general courtesy title for any man in a formal setting, with no precise significance, usually as a suffix to his name, and commonly with initials only. Chuck an “Esq.” in if you want. After your location name part seems to feel about right to me.
Pronouns
This is where I got a bit creative. Rather than list the pronouns, we can demonstrate them.
Take both [Profession] and [Kown As] (chosen name) we can make:
[she|he|they|…] [are|is|…] the [Profession] call [her|him|them|…] [Known As]
For me, this would be “he is an Author call him Matt”
Activities
This is a section where you can bulk out your name with things you do that are integral to your identity. I might choose “gamer, geek, coder, writer, chair of Thanet Creative”
DNS: Lookup Request Service
DNS stands for Domain Name Service it is what helps your computer turn authorbuzz.co.uk into a unique network address so the page can load. Perhaps you don’t want to give out your address and phone number but you might want to enable people to request those details. Your Lookup Request Service is where people can go for more information. Like, for example, your online profile. Like my about me address https://me.lordmatt.co.uk/.
Letters after name
We already have a system of letters after names like BSc, PhD, MD, DLitt etc.. They are called Post-Nominal Letters if you were wondering. They still go at the end.
The Oxford University Calendar style guide lists diplomas and certificates after degrees so I’m claiming HNDip [ref].
Putting the fuller name all together.
We are left with a pattern for fuller names that looks like this:
[Title] [Legal Name] [Handle[ AKA [Handle]…]] [Family]-[Employer] da [Birthplace] by [Father] out of [Mother]; [|she|he|they|…] [|are|is|…] the [Profession] [called|call [her|him|them|…]] [Known As] the [Activities] in [Address Parts] referencing [Lookup Request Service] [LAN]
For me, I am unfussed about my pronouns which can easily be inferred so I skipped some of the pronoun formations for better “flow”. For the same reason, I added a semi-colon after parents to disambiguate transitions.
I am the one and only Mr. Matthew David “Lord Matt” Brown-Self da Ramsgate Esq. by John the Artist out of Rosemary the Teacher; the Author called Matt the gamer, geek, coder, writer, and chair of Thanet Creative in Sol-3 Kent Character Transcriber 9 referencing me.lordmatt.co.uk HNDip
What’s your fuller name?
-
Fuller Names: Names that do more
You’ve heard of full names but let me introduce you to even fuller names.
In Iain M. Banks‘s Culture novels, names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up [ref]. This got me thinking about the roles of names in the age of The Internet. There is a lot of pressure on parents (well some parents) to give their children unique names these days. Mostly this results in some questionable name choices. Add to that the push for a unique personal brand, chosen handles, nicknames, deadnames, and all the other naming stuff. This left me wondering if Mr Banks might not have had a good idea we can use.
For fun, I thought I would see if I could work out a structure for a naming system that could be a unique route/reference to a single person. That got me thinking of other fiction that does interesting or cool things with names and titles.
I’m going to start with a list of name things that could be used:
- Given name (or new name) [Legal Name]
- Family name (surname) [Family]
- Nickname and/or handle(s) [Handle]
- Title(s) (Mr, Mrs, Mx, Ms, Lord, HRH etc.) [Title]
- Chosen name [Known As]
- Location [Address Parts]
- Birthplace [Birthplace]
- Career or profession [Profession]
- Parents [Father] [Mother]
- Employer [Employer]
- Pronouns
- Notable activities [Activities]
- DNS/Profile [Lookup Request Service]
- Letters after name [LAN]
- Esquire (perhaps)
The basics
The first few should be relatively obvious, For example, you might refer to me as Mr Matthew David “Lord Matt” Brown. That’s the first four – all common name and title things.
Then we get to known as. I tend to go by Matt.
Address parts
Address parts are the section of naming inspired by Iain M. Banks. I suppose that the address section could have many parts the use of which could be optional because not all of us want to doxx ourselves. In this imaginary world, the full address part of the name is used for official stuff (like opening a line of credit, utility billing, voter registration, etc.
Culture names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up. Let’s take an example; Balveda, from Consider Phlebas. Her full name is Juboal-Rabaroansa Perosteck Alseyn Balveda dam T’seif. The first part tells you she was born/brought up on Rabaroan Plate, in the Juboal stellar system (where there is only one Orbital in a system, the first part of a name will often be the name of the Orbital rather than the star); Perosteck is her given name (almost invariably the choice of one’s mother), Alseyn is her chosen name (people usually choose their names in their teens, and sometimes have a succession through their lives; an alseyn is a graceful but fierce avian raptor common to many Orbitals in the region which includes the Juboal system); Balveda is her family name (usually one’s mother’s family name) and T’seif is the house/estate she was raised within. The ‘sa’ affix on the first part of her name would translate into ‘er’ in English (we might all start our names with ‘Sun-Earther’, in English, if we were to adopt the same nomenclature), and the ‘dam’ part is similar to the German ‘von’. Of course, not everyone follows this naming-system, but most do, and the Culture tries to ensure that star and Orbital names are unique, to avoid confusion.
Using Banks’s system we would all acquire Sun-Earther as part of our location name or Sol-3 perhaps. I took inspiration from history for birthplace and differed from Banks slightly. See Birthplace for more of my ideas there. I justify differing in that (1) there is no reason not to riff on the idea and (2) “not everyone follows this naming-system” so we are still canonical if we too differ.
One fun idea might be to play with postcodes. Most countries have them. Many that have postcodes (zip codes in the US) have letters in them. For those with letters, one could substitute words for each letter.
For example, my postcode area is CT9. So I could choose to render that at Character Transcriber as a reference to both TTRPGs and my writing.
For brevity (acknowledging the irony here), it would probably be traditional to include the minimum needed lines to find you. On top of that, it might be optional just how much you include.
For example, you live at 237 Madeup Street, Somecounty, Smalltown, AB1 2CD. You might choose to render that as Madeup Smalltown A Brilliant (1/2) Cool Dude. Or you may choose to forego the address most of the time.
Birthplace
This one is a nod back to the invention of surnames. My reference here is Leonardo da Vinci whose name means Leonardo from Venice. Thus, part of your name could be “de [Birthplace]”.
Career or profession
This is another nod back to the invention of surnames. Many surnames trace their origin to professions. Names like Smith, Brown, Baker, Tailor, etc..
As a bonus this part of your fuller name answers the two most common questions, “Who are you?” and “What do you do?”.
Parents
Another early surname thing but also something nerdy and sci-fi. #
Surnames such as Johnson, Matthewson, Babson, and so forth first came about to define a person by who a parent was.
No for the sci-fi bit. In Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, we meet the Nietzscheans who carry the names of their parents. This takes the form of [Name] from [Father] out of [Mother]. You can add that to your fuller name.
I guess you could also add professions for your parents too.
That would make mine by John the artist out of Rosemary the teacher
Employer
For Employer as part of your name, we look to Max Barry’s book Jennifer Government. In Barry’s setting people take their employer as their surname. Guess who Jennifer works for…
As we are not a dystopia, perhaps a fuller name might hyphenate the employer with the family name. For me, that would be Brown-Self (as I do not work for a company).
Esquire
Esquire is sometimes used as a general courtesy title for any man in a formal setting, with no precise significance, usually as a suffix to his name, and commonly with initials only. Chuck an “Esq.” in if you want. After your location name part seems to feel about right to me.
Pronouns
This is where I got a bit creative. Rather than list the pronouns, we can demonstrate them.
Take both [Profession] and [Kown As] (chosen name) we can make:
[she|he|they|…] [are|is|…] the [Profession] call [her|him|them|…] [Known As]
For me, this would be “he is an Author call him Matt”
Activities
This is a section where you can bulk out your name with things you do that are integral to your identity. I might choose “gamer, geek, coder, writer, chair of Thanet Creative”
DNS: Lookup Request Service
DNS stands for Domain Name Service it is what helps your computer turn authorbuzz.co.uk into a unique network address so the page can load. Perhaps you don’t want to give out your address and phone number but you might want to enable people to request those details. Your Lookup Request Service is where people can go for more information. Like, for example, your online profile. Like my about me address https://me.lordmatt.co.uk/.
Letters after name
We already have a system of letters after names like BSc, PhD, MD, DLitt etc.. They are called Post-Nominal Letters if you were wondering. They still go at the end.
The Oxford University Calendar style guide lists diplomas and certificates after degrees so I’m claiming HNDip [ref].
Putting the fuller name all together.
We are left with a pattern for fuller names that looks like this:
[Title] [Legal Name] [Handle[ AKA [Handle]…]] [Family]-[Employer] da [Birthplace] by [Father] out of [Mother]; [|she|he|they|…] [|are|is|…] the [Profession] [called|call [her|him|them|…]] [Known As] the [Activities] in [Address Parts] referencing [Lookup Request Service] [LAN]
For me, I am unfussed about my pronouns which can easily be inferred so I skipped some of the pronoun formations for better “flow”. For the same reason, I added a semi-colon after parents to disambiguate transitions.
I am the one and only Mr. Matthew David “Lord Matt” Brown-Self da Ramsgate Esq. by John the Artist out of Rosemary the Teacher; the Author called Matt the gamer, geek, coder, writer, and chair of Thanet Creative in Sol-3 Kent Character Transcriber 9 referencing me.lordmatt.co.uk HNDip
What’s your fuller name?
-
Fuller Names: Names that do more
You’ve heard of full names but let me introduce you to even fuller names.
In Iain M. Banks‘s Culture novels, names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up [ref]. This got me thinking about the roles of names in the age of The Internet. There is a lot of pressure on parents (well some parents) to give their children unique names these days. Mostly this results in some questionable name choices. Add to that the push for a unique personal brand, chosen handles, nicknames, deadnames, and all the other naming stuff. This left me wondering if Mr Banks might not have had a good idea we can use.
For fun, I thought I would see if I could work out a structure for a naming system that could be a unique route/reference to a single person. That got me thinking of other fiction that does interesting or cool things with names and titles.
I’m going to start with a list of name things that could be used:
- Given name (or new name) [Legal Name]
- Family name (surname) [Family]
- Nickname and/or handle(s) [Handle]
- Title(s) (Mr, Mrs, Mx, Ms, Lord, HRH etc.) [Title]
- Chosen name [Known As]
- Location [Address Parts]
- Birthplace [Birthplace]
- Career or profession [Profession]
- Parents [Father] [Mother]
- Employer [Employer]
- Pronouns
- Notable activities [Activities]
- DNS/Profile [Lookup Request Service]
- Letters after name [LAN]
- Esquire (perhaps)
The basics
The first few should be relatively obvious, For example, you might refer to me as Mr Matthew David “Lord Matt” Brown. That’s the first four – all common name and title things.
Then we get to known as. I tend to go by Matt.
Address parts
Address parts are the section of naming inspired by Iain M. Banks. I suppose that the address section could have many parts the use of which could be optional because not all of us want to doxx ourselves. In this imaginary world, the full address part of the name is used for official stuff (like opening a line of credit, utility billing, voter registration, etc.
Culture names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up. Let’s take an example; Balveda, from Consider Phlebas. Her full name is Juboal-Rabaroansa Perosteck Alseyn Balveda dam T’seif. The first part tells you she was born/brought up on Rabaroan Plate, in the Juboal stellar system (where there is only one Orbital in a system, the first part of a name will often be the name of the Orbital rather than the star); Perosteck is her given name (almost invariably the choice of one’s mother), Alseyn is her chosen name (people usually choose their names in their teens, and sometimes have a succession through their lives; an alseyn is a graceful but fierce avian raptor common to many Orbitals in the region which includes the Juboal system); Balveda is her family name (usually one’s mother’s family name) and T’seif is the house/estate she was raised within. The ‘sa’ affix on the first part of her name would translate into ‘er’ in English (we might all start our names with ‘Sun-Earther’, in English, if we were to adopt the same nomenclature), and the ‘dam’ part is similar to the German ‘von’. Of course, not everyone follows this naming-system, but most do, and the Culture tries to ensure that star and Orbital names are unique, to avoid confusion.
Using Banks’s system we would all acquire Sun-Earther as part of our location name or Sol-3 perhaps. I took inspiration from history for birthplace and differed from Banks slightly. See Birthplace for more of my ideas there. I justify differing in that (1) there is no reason not to riff on the idea and (2) “not everyone follows this naming-system” so we are still canonical if we too differ.
One fun idea might be to play with postcodes. Most countries have them. Many that have postcodes (zip codes in the US) have letters in them. For those with letters, one could substitute words for each letter.
For example, my postcode area is CT9. So I could choose to render that at Character Transcriber as a reference to both TTRPGs and my writing.
For brevity (acknowledging the irony here), it would probably be traditional to include the minimum needed lines to find you. On top of that, it might be optional just how much you include.
For example, you live at 237 Madeup Street, Somecounty, Smalltown, AB1 2CD. You might choose to render that as Madeup Smalltown A Brilliant (1/2) Cool Dude. Or you may choose to forego the address most of the time.
Birthplace
This one is a nod back to the invention of surnames. My reference here is Leonardo da Vinci whose name means Leonardo from Venice. Thus, part of your name could be “de [Birthplace]”.
Career or profession
This is another nod back to the invention of surnames. Many surnames trace their origin to professions. Names like Smith, Brown, Baker, Tailor, etc..
As a bonus this part of your fuller name answers the two most common questions, “Who are you?” and “What do you do?”.
Parents
Another early surname thing but also something nerdy and sci-fi. #
Surnames such as Johnson, Matthewson, Babson, and so forth first came about to define a person by who a parent was.
No for the sci-fi bit. In Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, we meet the Nietzscheans who carry the names of their parents. This takes the form of [Name] from [Father] out of [Mother]. You can add that to your fuller name.
I guess you could also add professions for your parents too.
That would make mine by John the artist out of Rosemary the teacher
Employer
For Employer as part of your name, we look to Max Barry’s book Jennifer Government. In Barry’s setting people take their employer as their surname. Guess who Jennifer works for…
As we are not a dystopia, perhaps a fuller name might hyphenate the employer with the family name. For me, that would be Brown-Self (as I do not work for a company).
Esquire
Esquire is sometimes used as a general courtesy title for any man in a formal setting, with no precise significance, usually as a suffix to his name, and commonly with initials only. Chuck an “Esq.” in if you want. After your location name part seems to feel about right to me.
Pronouns
This is where I got a bit creative. Rather than list the pronouns, we can demonstrate them.
Take both [Profession] and [Kown As] (chosen name) we can make:
[she|he|they|…] [are|is|…] the [Profession] call [her|him|them|…] [Known As]
For me, this would be “he is an Author call him Matt”
Activities
This is a section where you can bulk out your name with things you do that are integral to your identity. I might choose “gamer, geek, coder, writer, chair of Thanet Creative”
DNS: Lookup Request Service
DNS stands for Domain Name Service it is what helps your computer turn authorbuzz.co.uk into a unique network address so the page can load. Perhaps you don’t want to give out your address and phone number but you might want to enable people to request those details. Your Lookup Request Service is where people can go for more information. Like, for example, your online profile. Like my about me address https://me.lordmatt.co.uk/.
Letters after name
We already have a system of letters after names like BSc, PhD, MD, DLitt etc.. They are called Post-Nominal Letters if you were wondering. They still go at the end.
The Oxford University Calendar style guide lists diplomas and certificates after degrees so I’m claiming HNDip [ref].
Putting the fuller name all together.
We are left with a pattern for fuller names that looks like this:
[Title] [Legal Name] [Handle[ AKA [Handle]…]] [Family]-[Employer] da [Birthplace] by [Father] out of [Mother]; [|she|he|they|…] [|are|is|…] the [Profession] [called|call [her|him|them|…]] [Known As] the [Activities] in [Address Parts] referencing [Lookup Request Service] [LAN]
For me, I am unfussed about my pronouns which can easily be inferred so I skipped some of the pronoun formations for better “flow”. For the same reason, I added a semi-colon after parents to disambiguate transitions.
I am the one and only Mr. Matthew David “Lord Matt” Brown-Self da Ramsgate Esq. by John the Artist out of Rosemary the Teacher; the Author called Matt the gamer, geek, coder, writer, and chair of Thanet Creative in Sol-3 Kent Character Transcriber 9 referencing me.lordmatt.co.uk HNDip
What’s your fuller name?
-
Fuller Names: Names that do more
You’ve heard of full names but let me introduce you to even fuller names.
In Iain M. Banks‘s Culture novels, names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up [ref]. This got me thinking about the roles of names in the age of The Internet. There is a lot of pressure on parents (well some parents) to give their children unique names these days. Mostly this results in some questionable name choices. Add to that the push for a unique personal brand, chosen handles, nicknames, deadnames, and all the other naming stuff. This left me wondering if Mr Banks might not have had a good idea we can use.
For fun, I thought I would see if I could work out a structure for a naming system that could be a unique route/reference to a single person. That got me thinking of other fiction that does interesting or cool things with names and titles.
I’m going to start with a list of name things that could be used:
- Given name (or new name) [Legal Name]
- Family name (surname) [Family]
- Nickname and/or handle(s) [Handle]
- Title(s) (Mr, Mrs, Mx, Ms, Lord, HRH etc.) [Title]
- Chosen name [Known As]
- Location [Address Parts]
- Birthplace [Birthplace]
- Career or profession [Profession]
- Parents [Father] [Mother]
- Employer [Employer]
- Pronouns
- Notable activities [Activities]
- DNS/Profile [Lookup Request Service]
- Letters after name [LAN]
- Esquire (perhaps)
The basics
The first few should be relatively obvious, For example, you might refer to me as Mr Matthew David “Lord Matt” Brown. That’s the first four – all common name and title things.
Then we get to known as. I tend to go by Matt.
Address parts
Address parts are the section of naming inspired by Iain M. Banks. I suppose that the address section could have many parts the use of which could be optional because not all of us want to doxx ourselves. In this imaginary world, the full address part of the name is used for official stuff (like opening a line of credit, utility billing, voter registration, etc.
Culture names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up. Let’s take an example; Balveda, from Consider Phlebas. Her full name is Juboal-Rabaroansa Perosteck Alseyn Balveda dam T’seif. The first part tells you she was born/brought up on Rabaroan Plate, in the Juboal stellar system (where there is only one Orbital in a system, the first part of a name will often be the name of the Orbital rather than the star); Perosteck is her given name (almost invariably the choice of one’s mother), Alseyn is her chosen name (people usually choose their names in their teens, and sometimes have a succession through their lives; an alseyn is a graceful but fierce avian raptor common to many Orbitals in the region which includes the Juboal system); Balveda is her family name (usually one’s mother’s family name) and T’seif is the house/estate she was raised within. The ‘sa’ affix on the first part of her name would translate into ‘er’ in English (we might all start our names with ‘Sun-Earther’, in English, if we were to adopt the same nomenclature), and the ‘dam’ part is similar to the German ‘von’. Of course, not everyone follows this naming-system, but most do, and the Culture tries to ensure that star and Orbital names are unique, to avoid confusion.
Using Banks’s system we would all acquire Sun-Earther as part of our location name or Sol-3 perhaps. I took inspiration from history for birthplace and differed from Banks slightly. See Birthplace for more of my ideas there. I justify differing in that (1) there is no reason not to riff on the idea and (2) “not everyone follows this naming-system” so we are still canonical if we too differ.
One fun idea might be to play with postcodes. Most countries have them. Many that have postcodes (zip codes in the US) have letters in them. For those with letters, one could substitute words for each letter.
For example, my postcode area is CT9. So I could choose to render that at Character Transcriber as a reference to both TTRPGs and my writing.
For brevity (acknowledging the irony here), it would probably be traditional to include the minimum needed lines to find you. On top of that, it might be optional just how much you include.
For example, you live at 237 Madeup Street, Somecounty, Smalltown, AB1 2CD. You might choose to render that as Madeup Smalltown A Brilliant (1/2) Cool Dude. Or you may choose to forego the address most of the time.
Birthplace
This one is a nod back to the invention of surnames. My reference here is Leonardo da Vinci whose name means Leonardo from Venice. Thus, part of your name could be “de [Birthplace]”.
Career or profession
This is another nod back to the invention of surnames. Many surnames trace their origin to professions. Names like Smith, Brown, Baker, Tailor, etc..
As a bonus this part of your fuller name answers the two most common questions, “Who are you?” and “What do you do?”.
Parents
Another early surname thing but also something nerdy and sci-fi. #
Surnames such as Johnson, Matthewson, Babson, and so forth first came about to define a person by who a parent was.
No for the sci-fi bit. In Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, we meet the Nietzscheans who carry the names of their parents. This takes the form of [Name] from [Father] out of [Mother]. You can add that to your fuller name.
I guess you could also add professions for your parents too.
That would make mine by John the artist out of Rosemary the teacher
Employer
For Employer as part of your name, we look to Max Barry’s book Jennifer Government. In Barry’s setting people take their employer as their surname. Guess who Jennifer works for…
As we are not a dystopia, perhaps a fuller name might hyphenate the employer with the family name. For me, that would be Brown-Self (as I do not work for a company).
Esquire
Esquire is sometimes used as a general courtesy title for any man in a formal setting, with no precise significance, usually as a suffix to his name, and commonly with initials only. Chuck an “Esq.” in if you want. After your location name part seems to feel about right to me.
Pronouns
This is where I got a bit creative. Rather than list the pronouns, we can demonstrate them.
Take both [Profession] and [Kown As] (chosen name) we can make:
[she|he|they|…] [are|is|…] the [Profession] call [her|him|them|…] [Known As]
For me, this would be “he is an Author call him Matt”
Activities
This is a section where you can bulk out your name with things you do that are integral to your identity. I might choose “gamer, geek, coder, writer, chair of Thanet Creative”
DNS: Lookup Request Service
DNS stands for Domain Name Service it is what helps your computer turn authorbuzz.co.uk into a unique network address so the page can load. Perhaps you don’t want to give out your address and phone number but you might want to enable people to request those details. Your Lookup Request Service is where people can go for more information. Like, for example, your online profile. Like my about me address https://me.lordmatt.co.uk/.
Letters after name
We already have a system of letters after names like BSc, PhD, MD, DLitt etc.. They are called Post-Nominal Letters if you were wondering. They still go at the end.
The Oxford University Calendar style guide lists diplomas and certificates after degrees so I’m claiming HNDip [ref].
Putting the fuller name all together.
We are left with a pattern for fuller names that looks like this:
[Title] [Legal Name] [Handle[ AKA [Handle]…]] [Family]-[Employer] da [Birthplace] by [Father] out of [Mother]; [|she|he|they|…] [|are|is|…] the [Profession] [called|call [her|him|them|…]] [Known As] the [Activities] in [Address Parts] referencing [Lookup Request Service] [LAN]
For me, I am unfussed about my pronouns which can easily be inferred so I skipped some of the pronoun formations for better “flow”. For the same reason, I added a semi-colon after parents to disambiguate transitions.
I am the one and only Mr. Matthew David “Lord Matt” Brown-Self da Ramsgate Esq. by John the Artist out of Rosemary the Teacher; the Author called Matt the gamer, geek, coder, writer, and chair of Thanet Creative in Sol-3 Kent Character Transcriber 9 referencing me.lordmatt.co.uk HNDip
What’s your fuller name?
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It’s maddening to encounter the uneducated attitude that men in the USA can’t have #hyphenated #surnames. My husband & I have shared the #legal surname O’Moore-Klopf for 31 years now. Catch up with the times, people!
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It’s maddening to encounter the uneducated attitude that men in the USA can’t have #hyphenated #surnames. My husband & I have shared the #legal surname O’Moore-Klopf for 31 years now. Catch up with the times, people!
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It’s maddening to encounter the uneducated attitude that men in the USA can’t have #hyphenated #surnames. My husband & I have shared the #legal surname O’Moore-Klopf for 31 years now. Catch up with the times, people!
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It’s maddening to encounter the uneducated attitude that men in the USA can’t have #hyphenated #surnames. My husband & I have shared the #legal surname O’Moore-Klopf for 31 years now. Catch up with the times, people!
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It’s maddening to encounter the uneducated attitude that men in the USA can’t have #hyphenated #surnames. My husband & I have shared the #legal surname O’Moore-Klopf for 31 years now. Catch up with the times, people!
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We’ve seen a list of the 20 or so commonest surnames in the nineteenth century. But what about the others? Over the next few months when I have time I’ll post the top 200 names (combining spelling variants as far as possible) in batches of ten, with their supposed type and the number of households with that name in 1861.
To recap, here’s the amended top 20.
ranksurnametypenumber in 18611Williamspersonal name16772Thomaspersonal name12273Richardspersonal name10494Rowepersonal name9035Stephens/Stevenspersonal name8276Martinpersonal name7927Harrispersonal name7208Mi(t)chellpersonal name7019Pearcepersonal name66910Robertspersonal name62511Jamespersonal name61512Johnspersonal name59313Bennett/spersonal name57814Nicholls/Nicholaspersonal name55515Pascoepersonal name?54916Hosken/ing etc.personal name54717Symons/Semmens etc.personal name53818Davey/Daviespersonal name53619Jenkinpersonal name50820Hocken/ing etc.personal name484And here’s the next ten.
21Hickspersonal name44122Phillips/Philpspersonal name42423Rogerspersonal name39924Harveypersonal name39825Brayplace name38426Matthew/spersonal name34827Cockmultiple33028Dunstan/onepersonal name/place name29629Maypersonal name29330Oliver/Olverpersonal name292Finally, we meet some names that didn’t arise from a first name. Cock for example was originally a nickname with various suggested meanings. It was widespread in Cornwall by the 1500s and the broad similarity of its distribution in the 1520s and the 1640s implies that it was already a fixed surname in most places in 1500.
Maps of all these surnames in the 1500s and 1641 can be found here.
Further details of most will be found in my The Surnames of Cornwall.
https://bernarddeacon.com/2024/09/11/cornwalls-top-surnames-the-list-continues/
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We’ve seen a list of the 20 or so commonest surnames in the nineteenth century. But what about the others? Over the next few months when I have time I’ll post the top 200 names (combining spelling variants as far as possible) in batches of ten, with their supposed type and the number of households with that name in 1861.
To recap, here’s the amended top 20.
ranksurnametypenumber in 18611Williamspersonal name16772Thomaspersonal name12273Richardspersonal name10494Rowepersonal name9035Stephens/Stevenspersonal name8276Martinpersonal name7927Harrispersonal name7208Mi(t)chellpersonal name7019Pearcepersonal name66910Robertspersonal name62511Jamespersonal name61512Johnspersonal name59313Bennett/spersonal name57814Nicholls/Nicholaspersonal name55515Pascoepersonal name?54916Hosken/ing etc.personal name54717Symons/Semmens etc.personal name53818Davey/Daviespersonal name53619Jenkinpersonal name50820Hocken/ing etc.personal name484And here’s the next ten.
21Hickspersonal name44122Phillips/Philpspersonal name42423Rogerspersonal name39924Harveypersonal name39825Brayplace name38426Matthew/spersonal name34827Cockmultiple33028Dunstan/onepersonal name/place name29629Maypersonal name29330Oliver/Olverpersonal name292Finally, we meet some names that didn’t arise from a first name. Cock for example was originally a nickname with various suggested meanings. It was widespread in Cornwall by the 1500s and the broad similarity of its distribution in the 1520s and the 1640s implies that it was already a fixed surname in most places in 1500.
Maps of all these surnames in the 1500s and 1641 can be found here.
Further details of most will be found in my The Surnames of Cornwall.
https://bernarddeacon.com/2024/09/11/cornwalls-top-surnames-the-list-continues/
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Everyone in Japan could have the same surname by 2531 due to unique law | indy100
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Everyone in Japan could have the same surname by 2531 due to unique law | indy100
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Everyone in Japan could have the same surname by 2531 due to unique law | indy100
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@GraveyardSnoop in my genealogy classes people are often surprised to learn that consistent spelling of surnames is fairly recent. 16c documents can have 4 or more spellings of the same surname on one parchment. #surnames #genealogy @genealogy
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@GraveyardSnoop in my genealogy classes people are often surprised to learn that consistent spelling of surnames is fairly recent. 16c documents can have 4 or more spellings of the same surname on one parchment. #surnames #genealogy @genealogy
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@GraveyardSnoop in my genealogy classes people are often surprised to learn that consistent spelling of surnames is fairly recent. 16c documents can have 4 or more spellings of the same surname on one parchment. #surnames #genealogy @genealogy
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@GraveyardSnoop in my genealogy classes people are often surprised to learn that consistent spelling of surnames is fairly recent. 16c documents can have 4 or more spellings of the same surname on one parchment. #surnames #genealogy @genealogy
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@GraveyardSnoop in my genealogy classes people are often surprised to learn that consistent spelling of surnames is fairly recent. 16c documents can have 4 or more spellings of the same surname on one parchment. #surnames #genealogy @genealogy
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In my second #OnePlaceStudies10 blog post for @SocOnePlaceStudies published on #OnePlaceWednesday, I reveal my list of the Top Ten Surnames of my Waters Upton #OnePlaceStudy!
https://www.one-place-studies.org/the-top-ten-surnames-of-waters-upton/
#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #Surnames #WatersUpton #Shropshire
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In my second #OnePlaceStudies10 blog post for @SocOnePlaceStudies published on #OnePlaceWednesday, I reveal my list of the Top Ten Surnames of my Waters Upton #OnePlaceStudy!
https://www.one-place-studies.org/the-top-ten-surnames-of-waters-upton/
#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #Surnames #WatersUpton #Shropshire
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In my second #OnePlaceStudies10 blog post for @SocOnePlaceStudies published on #OnePlaceWednesday, I reveal my list of the Top Ten Surnames of my Waters Upton #OnePlaceStudy!
https://www.one-place-studies.org/the-top-ten-surnames-of-waters-upton/
#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #Surnames #WatersUpton #Shropshire
