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theinsomniacindian · 4 months

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It's so funny how my chosen name is somewhat related to my IRL name

#both of them are related to the night sky. which is nice because i love space and astronomy #my chosen name is indu which means 'moon' in sanskrit and my irl name [REDACTED] means 'a night sky adorned with stars'#both my irl name and surname are really uncommon to the point where they get mispronounced almost all the time #in fact my surname is so rare that several sources say that just one in nine crore people have it. on top of that it's limited to my state #on the other hand my name isn't that uncommon but it's uncommon enough to be confused for other names. and that happens a lot #there was one time when my very sanskrit name got confused with my friend's very arabic one. i still laugh about it #fun fact: my irl name comes from a not very well-known avatar of the goddess durga (she has 1000 names so good luck finding mine lol)#uncommon name #rare name #uncommon name problems #rare name problems #uncommon surname #rare surname #india #indian #just indian things #indian stuff #the insomniac archives

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vivitalks · 5 months

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imagine, if you will, samirah al-abbas and reyna avila ramirez-arellano. at the same time. you're welcome

#reyna 'horse friend' arellano vs samirah 'tamer of aveajrksjtnellir idk how to spell those water horses' al-abbas??#yeah. you understand #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #heroes of olympus #reyna avila ramirez-arellano #samirah al-abbas #it's about women of color with hyphens in their surnames superb battle skills and a rare mutually respectful relationship with horses #stuff #mcga #hoo #pjo

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peppermintfreak · 5 months

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Listen. Let me cook. Basta could have Middle Eastern ancestry due to prominent numbers of muslim settlers in southern territory of Italy from the 8th to 13th century. Inkworld is more or less our world but stuck in some weird timeframe of the late Middle Ages/ entering early Renaissance mix up (possibly inspired by the illustrations in the silver book, which is a fairytale) which is when Arabs began making their presence known in Sicily and later elsewhere. Basta's parents could have assimilated or otherwise.

Fair hair and eyes are seemingly the standard in Inkworld (e.g: cosimo, the Piper, Brianna, Capricorn etcBattista's remark about their heroes, and Mo being such a big name despite his outlandishly 'dark as moleskin' hair) Being multiracial or at least different ethnicity is uncommon but not unheard of in Inkworld. Basta's the only one from Inkworld, along with the Prince, to have been tan/or dark-skinned and dark-haired enough to warrant a mention (even though that single tibit of a sentence confirming that was more of an emphasis on Basta's state in the cage). Huge shout-out to that one line in Inkheart where Basta gets so close to Meggie's face she sees her own reflection in his eyes that incited all of this.

#alternatively basta is serbian because serbs are as old as etchings on stone and his name is nothing more than a regular surname(is serbia)#inkheart #inkspell #basta #headcanon #mine #for reasons that last part i moved in the tags was a joke #his name is a last name as well as a first name in the balkans albeit rare #which tells me nothing but it's fun to think about #also im not versed in history at all this is just about what i can remember if anyone should correct me please do #thanks

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kuravix · 6 months

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Legendary marine hero who rivalled the Pirate King: Mr. Monkey

Revolutionary leader opposing the World Government: Mr. Monkey

Pirate emperor and future Pirate King: Mr. Monkey

#mmm monkey #luffy rarely gets called by just his surname #like zoro gets called roronoa a lot #shout out to shakky who calls him monkey

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veatomis · 8 months

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wip wednesday with scratch getting some very well deserved kisses from dhaeris <3

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #scratch bg3 #dhaeris #he needs a surname DESPERATELY #my art #i usually nvr post wips because my rendering process is so heavy and i paint over the sketch so in the end the sketch #layer looks NOTHING like the finished piece #but idk how i want to render this yet AND i also want to show it to people sooo bad so instead. very rare river wip <3 #dhaeris eastbourne

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befuddled-calico-whump · 3 months

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You are a genius naming your characters, how do you do It?

😭❤️❤️ thank you

tbh it's mostly coincidence or happy accident. For Riot Kings, just about every character was named on the fly based on their vibes. (The exceptions are Nabi, because I was looking for female Korean names, and Mercury Swift, which is a name I came up with and wrote down a while before starting RK because it sounded cool)

For T$$ I created the main cast all at once, and wanted to have varying syllables and vowel sounds. More than anything else, this is usually what I fall back on:

For example, Joy and Vic are both one-syllable names, and deliberately have different ending sounds

Kaius, Benji, and Hunter are all two-syllables, but they have enough sound variance to keep me happy lol

It's more my own personal preference than any real advice, but this is something I've stuck to to the point of changing a name if I realize I have too many two-syllable names or too many "ee" or "oh" sounds already (just examples)

For last names, I'll usually google surnames from that character's heritage and find one that makes a good cadence with their first name (aka I say a few combos out loud and see which one rolls the best)

#in hunter and benji's case i gave them uncommon but somewhat “white sounding” surnames based on the fact that i have a few friends with #indigenous/immigrant heritage whose grandparents or great grandparents changed their last names in order to find work in the 20th century #alexei wilder is a rare example of me going 'ok i need a name that sounds kinda hot'#and even that was a poll lol so thank you to my tunglegym friends #anon #writing tips #(sorta)#any cool name meanings are coincidence in the vast majority of cases skfjkdkdheh

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scover-va · 4 months

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Whatever. Brooks siblings attack. Leaves again goodbye everyone see yall in like fifty-five business days when i draw smth postable again

#scov.art #fnaf: hauntings of the past au #originally gave cassidy the surname andrews as a fun lil reference/easter egg so shes a child of divorce now #andrew’s hair was a fucking nightmare adult mick’s face was a fucking nightmare ty cassidy for giving me 0 issues #also rare happy healthy cassidy look at her #cassidy fnaf #fnaf cassidy #fnaf andrew #andrew fnaf #michael brooks #yay. anyways #look at what you did william you fucked up a perfectly good family

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lotro-tooltips-daily · 5 months

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#lotro #armour #gauntlets #item rarity: rare #irmans gloves #these gloves were worn by bard the bowman as he let fly the black arrow which slew smaug at esgaroth #note: i googled 'irman' to see what it means and uh. i mean its a village in iran #the devs might have had a germanic surname meaning honorable man in mind but it doesnt mean anything in english

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scionshtola · 5 months

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i love picking and choosing which viera lore pleases me to apply to cori and which to toss into the wind

#anyway cori’s dad’s name before he leaves the forest is nicomedes rehw-marouc #he gets a worldly signifier bc that seems right to me about him. idk what he changes it to when he leaves yet #but he gave cori a more unusual name from his village #the name cori’s mom takes when she leaves the skatay range is annika but she’s really young when that happens so that’s just her name #bia ymir is her forest name and she goes back to it when she goes to golmore #idk what her surname is when her family leaves for valnain is yet but i think maybe they kept ymir? and only changed their first names?#okay actually the only thing i’m really throwing out is that only male viera can be wood warders #and cori changing their first name when they leave #i need a text post tag #why do viera have to have so many names agdhjs i still need a whole other name for their dad 😭#btw yesterday i was reading up on miqo lore for reasons and was getting really hung up on #there’s only 26 tribes. in most seeker tribes theres one nunh and any other males would have to challenge that one nunh #but. if they come from the tribe then they would have to leave forever to go do that somewhere else bc would they not be related to all the #women there?????#some tribes have more than one community but that’s rare #just mathematically speaking. would most make miqos just leave then #agdhsj love xiv lore. viera and seeker miqos look at men and go just get out

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kigiom · 6 months

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doing normal (found the oxford handbook to my [absent] father's field of study and searched his name up and his work is referenced 10 times)

#im not interested in the same part of linguistics as he is but by god will it be funny.#I've always wanted to change my surname but I'm keeping it out of spite #it's very rare so might as well

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ilmaveivi · 3 months

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The Etymology of Finnish NHL Players a.k.a What Do Their Names Mean?

CENTRAL DIVISION 2023-2024

ARIZONA COYOTES

MATIAS MACCELLI

MATIAS /ˈmɑ.ti.ɑs/

Derived from the Hebrew name ‘Mattityahu, meaning “gift of Yahweh”.

MACCELLI /ˈmɑ.ʃːel.li/

An Italian surname possibly derived from the Hebrew name Mikha’el, meaning ”who is like God?”. Another possible origin is the Latin word macer, meaning ”lean”.

JUUSO VÄLIMÄKI

JUUSO /ˈjuː.so/

Derived from the Hebrew name Yosef, meaning "he will add”.

VÄLIMÄKI /ˈʋæ.li.mæ.ki/

A topographic Finnish surname meaning ”gap hill”.

COLORADO AVALANCHE

JOEL KIVIRANTA

JOEL /ˈjo.el/

Derived from the Hebrew name Yo’el, meaning “Yahweh is God”.

KIVIRANTA /ˈki.ʋi.rɑn.t̪ɑ/

A topographic Finnish surname meaning ”stone shore”.

ARTTURI LEHKONEN

ARTTURI /ˈɑrt.tu.ri/

Possibly derived from the Celtic word artos, meaning ”bear”. Another possible origin is the Roman family name Artorious, its meaning unknown.

LEHKONEN /ˈleh.ko.nen/

Possibly derived from the Finnish word lehti, meaning ”leaf”.

MIKKO RANTANEN

MIKKO /ˈmik.ko/

Derived from the Hebrew name Mikha’el, meaning ”who is like God?”.

RANTANEN /ˈrɑn.t̪ɑ.nen/

Derived from the Finnish word ranta, meaning ”shore”.

JUSTUS ANNUNEN

JUSTUS /ˈjus.tus/

A Latin name meaning ”just”.

ANNUNEN

Possibly derived from a Proto-Norse word meaning ”ancestor”.

DALLAS STARS

ROOPE HINTZ

ROOPE /ˈroː.pe/

Derived from the German name Hrodebert, meaning ”bright fame”.

HINTZ /ˈhin.t̪s/

A German surname derived from the Old German given name Hinzo, possibly derived from Germanic names meaning either ”encircled” or ”an army”.

JANI HAKANPÄÄ

JANI /ˈjɑ.ni/

Derived from the Hebrew name Yochanan, meaning "Yahweh is gracious”.

HAKANPÄÄ /ˈhɑ.kɑn.pæː/

Likely derived from the Finnish words haka, meaning ”hasp” or ”corral”, and pää, meaning ”head” or ”end”.

MIRO HEISKANEN

MIRO /ˈmi.ro/

Derived from the Slavic element miru, meaning ”peace”.

HEISKANEN /ˈhei̯s.kɑ.nen/

Likely based on a Finnish given name derived from the Germanic name Heimirich, meaning "home ruler”.

ESA LINDELL

ESA /ˈe.sɑ/

Derived from the Hebrew name Yesha’yahu, meaning "Yahweh is salvation”.

LINDELL /ˈlin.delː/

A Swedish surname derived from the Old Norse word lind, meaning ”lime tree”.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS

KEVIN LANKINEN

KEVIN /ke.vin/

Derived from the Old Irish name Cóemgein, meaning ”beloved birth”.

LANKINEN /ˈlɑŋ.ki.nen/

A Karelian surname likely derived from the Germanic word lang, meaning ”long”.

JUUSO PÄRSSINEN

JUUSO /ˈjuː.so/

Derived from the Hebrew name Yosef, meaning "he will add”.

PÄRSSINEN /ˈpærs.si.nen/

Possibly based on a Karelian given name derived either from the Greek name Porphyrios, meaning ”purple”, or the Greek name Petros, meaning ”stone”.

JUUSE SAROS

JUUSE /ˈjuː.se/

Derived from the Hebrew name Yosef, meaning "he will add”.

SAROS /ˈsa.ros/

Possibly derived from the Balto-Finnic word sarajas, meaning ”faraway, mythical sea” in Balto-Finnic poetry.

ST. LOUIS BLUES

KASPERI KAPANEN

KASPERI /ˈkɑs.pe.ri/

Possibly derived from the Persian word ganzabara, meaning ”bringer of treasure”. Another possible origin is the gemstone jasper derived from a Semitic word meaning ”speckled stone”

KAPANEN /ˈkɑ.pɑ.nen/

A Savonian surname possibly derived from the Finnish word kapakala, meaning ”stockfish”. Another possible origin is the Finnish word kapea, meaning ”narrow”.

WINNIPEG JETS

RASMUS KUPARI

RASMUS /ˈrɑs.mus/

Derived from the Greek word erasmios, meaning ”beloved”.

KUPARI /ˈku.pɑ.ri/

A Finnish word meaning ”copper”.

NOTES:

During the 12th century, the tradition of Finnish given names was lost due to the Christianization of Finland under the Swedish rule. By the 16th century only Christian names were accepted, which is why Finnish forms of Christian names are still widely popular in Finland despite the society being fairly secular. The tradition of native Finnish given names wasn’t revived until the 19th century.

Most Finnish surnames end in suffixes -nen or -la/-lä. The collective suffix -nen, which is more common in Eastern Finnish surnames, indicates belonging to a certain family or clan. The suffix -la/-lä, which is more common in Western Finnish surnames, creates oikonyms from the names of places, farms or small villages.

Karelia and Karelian can be used to refer to a geographical place, language, dialect or people. It is important to note that Karelian is its own language separate from Finnish. However, the Finnish language also has a Karelian dialect that is spoken in the Finnish Karelia. Finnish surnames originating from Karelia have likely been influenced by both Karelian and Finnish.

Balto-Finnic refers to Uralic languages spoken around the Baltic Sea. The branch includes Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Ingrian, Votic, Livonian, Ludic and Veps.

The IPA forms follow Finnish phonology even with foreign (Swedish, Russian etc.) names in approximation to how an average Finn pronounces them.

The source for most of the given names is Behind The Name. The topographic surnames are direct translations. The explanations for the rest of the surnames are either from Finnish Wiktionary or based on speculation by Finnish genealogy enthusiasts, hence the overuse of the word "possibly".

Feedback is welcome. If you have additions or notice any mistakes, please let me know!

#arizona coyotes #colorado avalanche #dallas stars #nashville predators #winnipeg jets #juuse i love you but your rare-ass surname nearly made me lose my mind #if somebody out there knows what 'saro' means please let me know cause it might be an old dialectical word #etymology #again. should've posted this before the trade deadline but alas

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athalantan · 1 month

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It actually makes me sad that El is referred to as the last prince of Athalantar throughout the first three books (chronologically). They abdicated the throne gladly, yet they hold onto their identity as an Athalantan for centuries after the kingdom has fallen. Around the time they start identifying as being from somewhere else (i.e. Shadowdale) is also when they stop using their surname. There’s significance to that.

#OOC / HOLLY.#MOBILE.#[gestures to the prophecy that Athalantar will fall without an Aumar on the throne]#this all also makes me emo that Simon has the Aumar surname #because timeline-wise they could feasibly have had a child or children #around the time they were settled in Shadowdale and raising Mys.tra’s daughters #this is the first time they’ve had a home in *centuries*#the thought of them having a long-term partner and kid(s) and a family is precious to me #and them passing on the Aumar surname that they themselves rarely but is their only link to their slaughtered family and fallen home #it’s not dangerous to pass it on either because hardly anyone knows it any more #fewer still know the kingdom of Athalantar #it’s significance is all personal now #significance*

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dicketysplit · 5 months

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pro tip: don’t fall in hyperlimerence with a guy who has one of the most basic and popular white boy names of the entire world, gang

#and if you really have to #for the love of god. at least find one with an inconspicuous and rare surname #and not. yknow. something that is a massive historical landmark #don’t be falling for guys called tom stonehenge or some shit

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simptasia · 2 years

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i’m so glad a handkerchief salesman in ancient persia fucked

#context: the last name dastmalchian means ''handkerchief seller''#so yeah david has a occupation surname. it just happens to be rare as fuck #there are less than 200 people upon this earth with the last name dastmalchian #about 30 of 'em are in america. a fair chunk of that would be david and his family!#i dunno i just find that neat and interesting #and i thought my last name was rare. his is a fucking endangered species

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