Got a d285? Then you can roll on this chart for a quick female name:

http://bit.ly/15jYA57

The companion to my 1000 Cymric Names (Male).

http://bit.ly/15RT8ro

Enjoy!


T.

This will be nice for my knights, for whom 2/3 have wives with the same name (Ffraid).

I guess that is what happens when one rolls a d23 for a name...

Ooh, useful - I'm hopeless with coming up with spur of the moment names. Bookmarked!

TY Taliesin.

Some of the Welsh names are really French: Alison is Norman french the seeped into Celtic; Loorette is a variant spelling of Lorette, meaning a kept woman/KAP £10 damsel ;); Laudine is the word "laud" feminized, meaning praise worthy woman/girl; Esclarmonde, meaning "light of the world"; Blancheflor is a variant spelling of Blanchefleur, meaning "white flower"; Violette is that French purple flower. Two more of them look pseudo-french: felinette, meaning "little cat"; but "feline" is not a French word and Feunette, looks fake or the "eu" is really "ou" and no one would name a girl that. Sara is obviously Hebrew in origin.

The -wen/wyn means more than "white", it means: "shining" and "holy" too.

Thanks, Snaggle. I started with the names in the KAP 5.1 rulebook and the Book of Knights and Ladies. I spotted some that didn't look Welsh to me, deleted them, and took it on faith that the rest were. But I appreciate the feedback. I will go in and make those edits. I'd like to get to a nice round 300 names, and add in phonetic pronunciations. If anyone want to help with that task, I'll give them editing permissions. Also, I'd like to split the list by frequency, as I did with the male names. The frequency is dodgy I'm sure, but at least it gives some method of taming pure randomness. I did actually find a study once of the frequency of Welsh names in a certain district in the 11th cen. or something and extrapolated from there (for the male list).


Best,


T.

It's only a few weeks ago, that I did a hefty search for female arthurian names. The results where kind of meager. So I appreciate this list very much.
Thank you, Taliesin

Thanks for me too. I don't mind Frenchified names all that much, given that they are rather common in the Arthurian literature to begin with. I just claim some de Ganis connection and move on. :)

As for rolling odd dice, I tend to use: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm . Unless we are actually playing via IRC in which case I just use the dicebot.

Of course, 1d300 is pretty easy to roll with 1d3 and then 1d100 (two d10), but eve then I would not worry too much about getting EXACTLY 300 names. Rerolling is easy enough and not that common anyway. Or you can simply double up on the most 'common' (prettiest / most pleasing) names. That's probably what I'd do. Not all names are created equal, after all. :)

Not all names are created equal, after all. :)

In fact, if you read enough Arthurian literature you will begin to think that half the women in Britain were named Elaine.
I have often wondered why that name was so popular, in the literature if not in real life.
My best guess is that people like the name because that was the name of the mother of Constantine the Great's British mother who was noted for piety, pilgrimaged to the Holy Land, and found the True Cross (or one of them anyway)
Most of the time her name is spelled Helen, but it is the same name.

They still make and sell 30 sided die and rolling two dice is the efficient and lazy thing to do, rather than rolling 3 dice ;)

Greg "Elaine" is one of those la Fée names.

Not all names are created equal, after all. :)

In fact, if you read enough Arthurian literature you will begin to think that half the women in Britain were named Elaine.
I have often wondered why that name was so popular, in the literature if not in real life.
My best guess is that people like the name because that was the name of the mother of Constantine the Great's British mother who was noted for piety, pilgrimaged to the Holy Land, and found the True Cross (or one of them anyway)
Most of the time her name is spelled Helen, but it is the same name.

Helen (of Troyes) was also the name in Greek literature to be the name of the most beautiful girl in the world, so maybe by naming the girl, you could make them beautiful?

Taliesin,
I just want to give a huge thank you for your lists of names - thanks to you my players are actively having fun when filling out their family trees instead of groaning when figuring out what grandma's name was. Cheers!

Hey, no problem. I'm glad someone's getting some use out of it!


T.

Hey T. I wont be using these but was impressive of you to do that I did something similar using old Englishmen and women names from several Latin text's that are no longer used or more obscure for my kap game and did the same researching all the diff-rant names that Tolkien used for my lord of rings campaign to make my campaign's more unique though I did keep and use a lot of Greg's original names for the npc he named in the adventures I used so it was a mix of names but if my players Want to use one off your list I wont tell them no either.

This will be nice for my knights, for whom 2/3 have wives with the same name (Ffraid).

I guess that is what happens when one rolls a d23 for a name...

It's worth noting that Greg pulled a sneaky - the name lists in 5E aren't the same as in 4E... I've got 65 Cymric Women's names just from those two... and 89 men's.

I'm curious to know the sources from which the "big lists" were pulled.