Hello c:
I need sibling names for the protagonist of my book. Her name is [name_f]Catriona[/name_f] [name_m]Roth[/name_m] (she’s 19), and she has 9 siblings that need names.
She has 6 brothers and 3 sisters. There is one set of boy-boy twins and one of boy-girl twins among her siblings, but they don’t necessarily need to be matchy. They can be, but it’s not a requirement.
I’m mainly looking for names that meet the following requirements:
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Same/similar origin, linguistically. [name_f]Catriona[/name_f] is a gaelic name, so names that are Gaelic/Irish/Scottish and maybe Welsh could work. The story is in a fantasy setting, so it is less about where the character is from and more about the names sounding cohesive if that makes sense.
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Not unisex. Unisex names that sway heavily towards one gender are fine, but I want all of the names to be clearly male/female.
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Names should be relatively intuitive for English speakers to pronounce. For example, names like [name_f]Ailis[/name_f], [name_f]Etain[/name_f], or [name_f]Cessair[/name_f] are okay but names like [name_f]Meadhbh[/name_f] and [name_m]Saidhbhin[/name_m] would be hard to pronounce (I don’t really want a pronunciation guide for the book).
I think that is it. I would prefer to use the original/authentic spellings, as opposed to using the anglicized versions but I’m trying to not be too picky, lol. Thanks in advance!
Male names:
Ailill — Irish; means elf
Ailpein or Alpin — Scottish/Gaelic; may mean white (note: Ailpein is the older/original spelling, but Alpin seems much easier to guess the pronunciation of)
[name_u]Bryn[/name_u] or [name_u]Brin[/name_u] — Welsh; means hill (note: another case where I believe the variant spelling, [name_u]Brin[/name_u], would be easier for English speakers to pronounce) (is sometimes used as a girl’s name, too, but originally was only a boy’s name)
Cadfael — Welsh; means “battle prince”
[name_f]Caiside[/name_f] — Irish (Ancient); means curly-haired (may or may not actually be easy to pronounce, though I assume the e is silent, so the end would be pronounced “sid” instead of “side”. But I honestly don’t know)
[name_u]Glyn[/name_u] — Welsh; means valley
[name_m]Lon[/name_m]án — Irish; means little blackbird
Rónán — Irish; means little seal
[name_m]Torin[/name_m] — Irish; means cheif
[name_u]Wyn[/name_u] — Welsh; means blessed, white, or fair
There’s a fairly substantial list of boy’s names I got from a search on a website called “Behind The Name” (which I highly recommend, by the way, I use Behind The Name in naming most of my own characters nowadays). Those are some of my favorites, that I thought sounded both interesting and pronounceable. I might come back a bit later with some female names.
For the girls: [name_f]Branwen[/name_f], [name_f]Siobhan[/name_f], [name_f]Fionnuala[/name_f], [name_f]Eira[/name_f], [name_f]Aoife[/name_f], [name_f]Saoirse[/name_f], [name_f]Rhiannon[/name_f], Bronmai, Ailie
For the boys: [name_m]Eoin[/name_m], [name_m]Sean[/name_m], [name_m]Seamus[/name_m], [name_m]Keir[/name_m], [name_m]Struan[/name_m]
either: [name_u]Teagan[/name_u], [name_u]Finley[/name_u], [name_u]Rory[/name_u]
Female names:
[name_u]Blair[/name_u] — Scottish; means field (a unisex name, but it sound very feminine in my opinion)
[name_f]Brigit[/name_f] — Irish; old Irish form of [name_f]Bridget[/name_f]
[name_u]Ceri[/name_u] — Welsh; short form of [name_f]Ceridwen[/name_f] (which was the name of a witch in a medieval Welsh legend, but [name_u]Ceri[/name_u] sounds very pretty)
[name_f]Eira[/name_f] — Welsh; means snow
Eireann — Irish; old form of [name_f]Erin[/name_f]
[name_f]Maeve[/name_f] — Irish; means intoxicating, was the name of a warrior queen in Irish legend
[name_u]Meredith[/name_u] — Welsh; may mean great lord or sea lord (is unisex but sounds feminine)
[name_f]Nerys[/name_f] — Welsh; may mean lady
[name_u]Rhian[/name_u] — Welsh; means maiden
(Half of these are Welsh, which, I realize, is the one you were doubtful about… I hope that’s okay.)