Name Detective

For this game the first person needs to describe a name for the second person to guess. That person can then describe a new name. [name_m]Feel[/name_m] free to describe it with number of syllables, vowels, consonants, its first, last, or middle letter, its meaning, origin, or popularity. Whatever hints you want to give are up to you! [name_m]Feel[/name_m] free to be creative with your descriptions.

I’ll start.

This name is commonly masculine. It is the name of a Pixar character, and can end with a y or an i. It has four letters.

Is it [name_u]Andy[/name_u]?

The name is the last name of a famous American inventor. He was born in the 1800s. It has 6 letters.

Is it [name_m]Edison[/name_m]?

This name is masculine and has eight letters. None of them repeat in the name. It begins with “ch”.

Is it [name_u]Chandler[/name_u]?

The next name is popular in [name_f]England[/name_f] and sounds quite quintessentially English, imo. Was popular during the late 1800s and is popular now as well. Would be a good sibling name for names such as [name_f]Lucy[/name_f], [name_u]Charlie[/name_u], [name_m]Harry[/name_m], [name_f]Poppy[/name_f], [name_f]Maisie[/name_f] + [name_f]Daisy[/name_f]. It is a colour name with 4 letters.

[name_u]Gray[/name_u]?

This name is an English name. It is the name of a popular US first lady and has an N and R in it.

Is it [name_f]Eleanor[/name_f]?

This name is very old fashioned, but was also the title character in a recent film. It has five letters and ends with a S.

Is it Shrek?

This name was recently far more popular than it should have been. It is a biblical term spelled backwards.

Is it [name_f]Nevaeh[/name_f]?

This name is short and sweet, has 4 letters, starts with and E, and is in the Bible.

[name_m]Just[/name_m] in response to the 3rd/4th people on page 1 lmao:

"The next name is popular in [name_f]England[/name_f] and sounds quite quintessentially English, imo. Was popular during the late 1800s and is popular now as well. Would be a good sibling name for names such as [name_f]Lucy[/name_f], [name_u]Charlie[/name_u], [name_m]Harry[/name_m], [name_f]Poppy[/name_f], [name_f]Maisie[/name_f] + [name_f]Daisy[/name_f]. It is a colour name with 4 letters.

  • [name_u]Gray[/name_u]?"

Lmao that had me cracking uppp. I’m gonna guess [name_u]Ruby[/name_u]? [name_u]Gray[/name_u] is literally the least quintessentially 1800s English name I’ve ever heard in my life haha :smiley:

OH MY F ING GOD - the original person with the clue was me 2 years ago hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. What the actual hellllllll haha. It was definitely [name_u]Ruby[/name_u] in that case lololol. I can’t believe that hahahaha

[name_m]Just[/name_m] going to ignore that comment from @elsker

[name_m]Ezra[/name_m]?

It’s a unisex city name more popular for girls beginning with an L.

[name_u]London[/name_u]?

This names contains -eph- and ends with n

[name_m]Stephen[/name_m]?

Rhymes with [name_m]Will[/name_m], one actor with this name played himself as a zombie in Zombieland

[name_m]Bill[/name_m]?

This name is a character’s nickname in Call the Midwife and also the name of a character from the kids TV show Lazytown. It means “she who brings happiness”. It is more commonly a nickname but is also a stand-alone name.

[name_f]Trixie[/name_f] (I honestly don’t know)?

It’s a super-common four-letter flower name.

It’s either [name_f]Rose[/name_f] or [name_f]Lily[/name_f].

Five letters long, female. Derived from the name of the Norse goddess who guards the golden apples of youth and whose name means “to rework”. Not too uncommon in medieval [name_f]England[/name_f].

Honestly, I don’t know. Derived from [name_f]Idun[/name_f], maybe?

A feminine place name beginning with E and ending with D.

[name_f]England[/name_f]?

A fairly uncommon flower name beginning with P, a [name_m]Harry[/name_m] [name_m]Potter[/name_m] character has this name.

[name_f]Pansy[/name_f]?

This Latin word means morning star or light-bringing. But today the name is a more commonly known as a synonym for the devil and a title character in a tv series. It’s also the name of a not so friendly feline in a Disney classic.

[name_m]Lucifer[/name_m]?

This masculine leaning neutral name is from a constellation titled [Blank] The [name_u]Hunter[/name_u]!