I’ve got a challenge to showcase your aesthetic tastes when it comes to sounds/words/names, and even better, perhaps to serve as inspiration for actual names (especially GPs)!
Here are the rules:
You should have one word/title/name for each category, and up to three max if you like.
You can absolutely skip sections, or tackle them in separate posts!
Avoid any names/words that are already familiar IRL, or discussed on Nameberry (e.g. no Amelie, no Winter). The more outlandish the better; something that sounds lovely, but which can’t be used due to meaning/association, would be a great choice.
Answers can be multiple words long, but more than six syllables total would be excessive.
These can be things you’re long-familiar with and attached to, or things that you only just heard of for the first time. The important thing is that the name is very appealing!
The more obscure/unique to you the better — avoid the obvious if you can, we want lots of different answers!
The categories are below, and you can copy it with all the formatting for your post from the hidden section at the bottom of this post.
I have included links to lists to help you, if you need to go searching!
Symphony: Pastorale/Pastoral
Opera: Curlew River (as a combo)
Ballet: Five (why am i really liking this as a name…)
Stageplay: Comus maybe?
Musical: Florodora or Greenwillow
LITERATURE
Book: Villette, East Lynne (maybe Eastlynne), or Armadale
Poem: Lycidas or Invictus (or Bluets, if one long poem counts)
MUSIC
Band: Bastille or Lorde
Album: Glitterbug
Song: Dustland or Light of Love
ENTERTAINMENT
Film: Labyrinth?
Television show: Ghosts would make a cool name also Grantchester
Video game: Harvestella
PRODUCTS
Beauty brand: Avon
Fashion brand: I always thought Hennes (or Hennies) as in H&M was nice. Also, Uniqlo
Car brand/model: Skoda Felicia as a combo
Pharmaceutical product: Sando-K has a cool sound
PLACES
Country: Finland, Eritrea
City: Truro and Swansea
Town/village: Carisbrooke
NATURE
Forest/mountain/desert: Snowdon or Oxshott
River/lake/sea: Solent
Animal: Egret
Star/constellation/astral body: Constellation would be cool!
BONUS: WORDS
Noun: Redemption
Verb: Gleam
Adjective: Melodious
Preposition: Betwixt
Interjection: Aye or Alas
Compound word: Seafarer
Band: [name_m]Fleetwood[/name_m] (Mac) or Blondie
Album: I feel like this will be a popular one…Evermore! [name_u]Or[/name_u] [name_f]Graceland[/name_f]
Song: Songbird, Illume (yes okay both [name_m]Fleetwood[/name_m] [name_m]Mac[/name_m] songs )
ENTERTAINMENT
Film: Braveheart, Stardust
Television show: [name_m]Andor[/name_m]
Video game: Morrowind or Hearthfire
PRODUCTS
[name_f]Beauty[/name_f]: [name_f]Elf[/name_f]
Fashion brand: Aerie (have always thought this would make a good name!!)
Car brand/model: [name_f]Astra[/name_f]
Pharmaceutical product: Gedarel (contraceptives lmao)
(I’ll do these in Dutch)
Noun: Leeuwerik (lark), Ravijn (ravine), Trias (Triassic)
Verb: Menen (suppose), Zwieren (swirl)
Adjective: Fijn (nice), Magnifieke (magnificent)
Preposition: Met (with)
Interjection: Werda (who is there?), Top (OK great), [name_f]Eureka[/name_f]
Compound word: Steppeflora (the plants that grow on the steppe)
@Greyblue
Eastlynne is a surprisingly cool idea for a -lynne! Bluet as a diminutive of blue and a flower is totally usable and completely gorgeous, thank you for pointing me in that direction! Bluets plural is stunningly beautiful, it would make a fantastically artsy middle. [name_f]Eritrea[/name_f] is a very beautiful place name, as are Truro and Swansea. And “Alas” would sure be a very pretty sorrow-themed name. Sounds a little Puritan.
@persephonescrown
I love [name_m]Fidelio[/name_m], Braveheart, [name_m]Andor[/name_m], Delamere! Athwart and Alack are also such fun sounds!
@johanna
I love Elevamini and Egmont. And I never thought of Metallica that way but it is a pretty word! [name_f]Dacia[/name_f] and Emmen are lovely and sound totally wearable. And oh my gosh, your [name_m]Dutch[/name_m] words are great! Trias, Zwieren and Magnifieke all sound really cool. And [name_f]Eureka[/name_f] is just a fantastic name, I’m tempted to just add it straight to my list.
Symphony: Joyous (nn Joy) or Maximalist (nn Max)
Ballet: Bella Figura or Carousel (nn Caro)
Stageplay: Chicago
Musical: Mary Poppins (We’re doing it for our school musical and I’ve been practicing lines nonstop so it’s all I can think of )
LITERATURE
Book: Whyy am I struggling so much with this one, I should be good at this! Persuasion? nn Percy? Anne Green Gables? Get rid of the “of” and it kinda sounds like a berry combo
Film: Frozen
Television show: Sanditon (nn Sandy)
Video game: Hollow Knight
PLACES
Country: America
City: Prince Edward Island (Yes, I know it’s not a city, but it would make such a cool combo!)
Town/village: Interlaken (A village in Switzerland, apparently)
NATURE
Forest/mountain/desert: Sahara
River/lake/sea: Strawberry Lake
Animal: Stallion
Star/constellation/astral body: Andromeda? (Already a name, but still)
This was really fun! Don’t know why I decided to spend my morning doing this, but whatever.
also Grantchester
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