help me to do something odd
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Topic: help me to do something odd
Posted By: laplace
Subject: help me to do something odd
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 09:04
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for reasons too dorky to elaborate on here I'm compiling a list of four letter names. What have I missed? (male) Adam Alan Alex Andy Aziz Bill Brad Chad Dave Dean Emil Enzo Eric Erik Evan Finn Fred Gary Hans Hugo Igor Ilja Ivan Jack Jake Jens Joel John Jose Juan Lars Leon Liam Luca Luis Luke Nate Neil Nick Noah Noel Olaf Omar Otto Owen Paul Pete Phil Rhys Ross Ryan Sean Stan Theo Todd Tony Vlad Yuri Zack +Bart Burt Carl Dirk Doug Earl Esau Ezra Greg Hugh Iain Jeff Joey Mark Mike Mick Rick Sven Toby Will (female) Alba Andi Anna Anne Cass Cloe Dana Dora Elen Ella Emma Erin Faye Gaia Gina Gwen Hina Hope Ilsa Inge Jade Jane Jess Jill Joan June Kate Kaye Lara Leah Lena Lily Lisa Lucy Lulu Luna Mary Miyu Nina Nora Olga Rita Roni Rose Ruby Sara Suzi Tara Tess Tina Toni Yael Zoey +Dawn Edna Elim Enid Jean Judy Kaya Lana Lois Lori Mona Ruth (surnames - I need lots more of these) Bell Berg Chan Chen Choi Cook Cruz Dias Eder Fuji Gray Haas Hall Hill Jung Katz Kerr Khan King Koch Lane Lang Levy Lima Long Mori Pace Park Reed Ross Roux Ruiz Ryan Sato Smit Song Wang Ward Wolf Wong Wood Zhao +Barr Boyd Bush Cole Kant Legg Lowe Rice Rowe a few pointers: if a name would be rendered unreadable by having its diacriticals removed (ex. Joćo) then I don't need it - I'm using alphabet characters only if you have two very similar ones (ex. Olaf, Olav) then submit the one you think is most common don't submit anything unnecessarily rare - I'm trying to strike a balance between recognisability and exhaustiveness. the ones after the "+" are ones added since I posted this any suggestions? ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 09:53
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lol, I missed a few proggy names: Greg, Carl, Rick =P
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:15
BART, e.g.  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
laplace wrote:Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:23
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Female - Ruth, Dawn, Mona, Lori Male - Doug, Toby, Sven, Joey
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:23
And MARC of course 
(And Mark, Bert, Burt...)
MORK is too far out, I suppose
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:25
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Oh, those are all good suggestions =)
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:26
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Ezra, Earl, Elim, Esau (just happen to know people with all those names) ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:31
those are good =) are they all male names? ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:32
Elim is generally considered a female name. Egyptian if I'm not mistaken. The rest are male. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:34
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You can probably add a lot of http://www.nameplayground.com/?letters=4 - these to your list. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:37
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Thanks, yes, I did spot that list. The reason I started this thread instead of just cribbing directly from it was to get an international opinion on which of the names were expected and actually in use. =)
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:40
Interesting. Well, best of luck to you. BTW, Kaya is another one I've seen several little girls in the U.S. named. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 10:51
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BUSH is a good surname.
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 19:22
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yep, I'll add that. (bump) =) ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 20:03
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i'll add Logan's suggestions of Dirk, Edna, Enid, Will, Legg and Rowe/Lowe even though his post somehow got itself consigned to the future
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 20:14
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How about Shel (as in Shel Silverstein)? One of my kids was reading "The Giving Tree" today and that one occured to me. Good book by the way. It'll make you phone your mother to see how she's doing... ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 20:27
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As is common, since I have two young kids, I was distracted when writing it, posted hurriedly as I was being called away, and wasn't nearly happy with the quality of the post. Rather than edit later, I decided to delete instead, as I didn't know when I could get back to it. Also, I thought my very little joke poorly puerile, and a lame attempt at referencing (god knows that even what I make what I consider to be somewhat decent attempts at humour, I elicit groans, or embarrassed silence, so I'm a little self-conscious there when there is anything in a post of mine that resembles an attempt at humour. I wish one could order something akin to Viagra for a limp funny bone). |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 22:45
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iain, nial, dunc, geof
judy, lana, elis, peta
rich, barr, bart, kant
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 11:24
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I plan to use these for a few word games I'm designing to help myself become better at programming... I can use a lot of what you submitted, although a few (nial, dunc, peta) seem like modified versions of better-known names - are they regional? ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 12:01
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http://www.babynamesworld.com/meaning_of_Nial.html - Nial is an original Irish/Gaelic name and is not a derivative of Neil
Dunc is the diminutive for http://www.babynamesworld.com/meaning_of_Duncan.html - Duncan
http://www.babynamesworld.com/meaning_of_Peta.html - Peta is of Greek origin and is the female form of Peter
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 12:15
Don't forget The Progtologist (Jody)  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 14:39
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Does Josh count? It's short for Joshua... And then there's Nils, like SGM. But technically, couldn't a parent name their child anything they wanted? Therefore, Here or Face or Book would be names, too. |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 14:49
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Nils and Josh both seem awesome lol FFX siggage Book and Here are words with established connotations outside of human nomenclature =P ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 14:51
| Whatabout Umex, though? |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 14:52
| or Blae |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 09:07
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or Dork? ;P i'm looking for established names ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 09:17
| I know a guy called Ilia |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 14:12
| Are you still doing this? And are you only looking for English names? I could list plenty of Finnish ones if you're interested. |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 18:26
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Sure! Fire away, Vomp. =) ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 10 2008 at 03:54
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Here's what I can think of. These are all more all less "normal" names: Male: Esko, Ismo, Isto, Jani, Jari, Juha, Kari, Mika, Olli, Ossi, Pasi, Rami, Riku, Saku, Simo, Tero, Timo, Tomi, Urho, Urpo, Uuno. Female: Anna, Anni, Armi, Aura, Emmi, Essi, Iida, Irma, Kati, Mari, Meri, Outi, Sari, Satu, Siru, Taru, Tiia, Ulla. |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: April 11 2008 at 16:39
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Excellent, thank you. =) I know a scant few of those from various celebrities and musicians, but most are new. (I've given up on updating the first post because it's so far away) ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |