Finding Names

[akirlu]

Another for-my-reference writerstuff post.

Jo Walton explains her rather handy-and-powerful-seeming name-system generating algorithm here.

Also, a census-data-powered contemporary American name generator (with adjustable name-obscurity) can be found here.

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Comments

[maryread]

Those are some seriously cool links in the comments too. That Random Name Generator is some fun, hey. Out of ten names I got two Darryls, and a stunning ethnic diversity. Bob Newhart much?

But I used to love the big index book in the cemetery office fireproof vault, when I worked there. A name like Lena Tantillo, there's a whole story right there, about the Scandinavians & Sicilians moving in together right here, the South Side Story, and what used to be called mixed marriages...