{"id":1420,"date":"2011-11-06T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2011-11-06T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:43:45","slug":"beyond-fred-names-for-victorian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/beyond-fred-names-for-victorian-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond &#8216;Fred&#8217;: Names for Victorian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has trouble coming up with character names, at least occasionally. Especially GMs, who frequently have to come up with names on the spur of the moment. That&#8217;s what this series, &#8220;Beyond &#8216;Fred'&#8221; is all about: providing lists of names from other times and cultures so you can find a name that <em>feels<\/em> right for the time and place of your game.<\/p>\n<p>In this series, I&#8217;m more interested in finding names that capture the feel of various game settings. Historical accuracy is not a factor here. In the spirit of my new <em>Castle Falkenstein<\/em> campaign, here&#8217;s a list of names common in Victorian England and America:<\/p>\n<p>Male Names<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aaron<\/li>\n<li>Alonzo<\/li>\n<li>Ambrose<\/li>\n<li>Barnabas<\/li>\n<li>Bartholomew<\/li>\n<li>Bernard<\/li>\n<li>Byron<\/li>\n<li>Cecil<\/li>\n<li>Cyril<\/li>\n<li>Clarence<\/li>\n<li>Clement (Clem)<\/li>\n<li>Clinton (Clint)<\/li>\n<li>David<\/li>\n<li>Edward (Ned)<\/li>\n<li>Edwin<\/li>\n<li>Eldon<\/li>\n<li>Ernest<\/li>\n<li>Ezra<\/li>\n<li>Francis<\/li>\n<li>Franklin<\/li>\n<li>Fredrick<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel<\/li>\n<li>Garrett<\/li>\n<li>Harland<\/li>\n<li>Harrison<\/li>\n<li>Henry<\/li>\n<li>Horace<\/li>\n<li>Isaac<\/li>\n<li>James<\/li>\n<li>John<\/li>\n<li>Jasper<\/li>\n<li>Julian<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence<\/li>\n<li>Leander<\/li>\n<li>Louis<\/li>\n<li>Maurice<\/li>\n<li>Maxwell<\/li>\n<li>Merriweather<\/li>\n<li>Micajah<\/li>\n<li>Morris<\/li>\n<li>Nathaniel (Nate, Nathan, Nat)<\/li>\n<li>Nimrod<\/li>\n<li>Oral<\/li>\n<li>Orville<\/li>\n<li>Patrick<\/li>\n<li>Perry<\/li>\n<li>Peter<\/li>\n<li>Reuben<\/li>\n<li>Richard (Dick, Rich)<\/li>\n<li>Samuel<\/li>\n<li>Simeon<\/li>\n<li>Thaddeus<\/li>\n<li>Thomas (Tom)<\/li>\n<li>Victor<\/li>\n<li>Walter<\/li>\n<li>Wilfred<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Female Names<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abigail (Abby)<\/li>\n<li>Agnes<\/li>\n<li>Beatrice<\/li>\n<li>Charity<\/li>\n<li>Charlotte<\/li>\n<li>Chastity<\/li>\n<li>Constance<\/li>\n<li>Dorothy (Dot)<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth (Bess, Betsy, Bessie, Eliza, Liza, Lizzie)<\/li>\n<li>Eudora<\/li>\n<li>Eva<\/li>\n<li>Fern<\/li>\n<li>Fidelia<\/li>\n<li>Frances<\/li>\n<li>Flora<\/li>\n<li>Geneve<\/li>\n<li>Genevieve<\/li>\n<li>Grace<\/li>\n<li>Hattie<\/li>\n<li>Helene<\/li>\n<li>Hester<\/li>\n<li>Irene<\/li>\n<li>Ivy<\/li>\n<li>Jessamine<\/li>\n<li>Josephine<\/li>\n<li>Judith<\/li>\n<li>Katherine<\/li>\n<li>Lenora<\/li>\n<li>Letitia<\/li>\n<li>Lily<\/li>\n<li>Lottie<\/li>\n<li>Margaret<\/li>\n<li>Maude<\/li>\n<li>Mercy<\/li>\n<li>Minerva<\/li>\n<li>Molly<\/li>\n<li>Nellie<\/li>\n<li>Patsy<\/li>\n<li>Parthena<\/li>\n<li>Permelia<\/li>\n<li>Phoebe<\/li>\n<li>Rowena<\/li>\n<li>Rufina<\/li>\n<li>Sarah<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Anne (Sarah Elizabeth)<\/li>\n<li>Sophronia<\/li>\n<li>Theodosia<\/li>\n<li>Victoria<\/li>\n<li>Winnifred (Winnie)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Biblical names were very popular in the Victorian Era, as were virtues (such as Chastity or Hope), and flowers (primarily for women). Both boys and girls were also given &#8220;nature&#8221; names, such as Forrest, Fern<\/p>\n<p>Sources<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babynamesgarden.com\/victorian.aspx\">Victorian Baby Names<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wikiparenting.parentsconnect.com\/wiki\/Victorian_Baby_Names_-_Girl\">Victorian Baby Names &#8211; Girl &#8211; WikiParenting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~poindexterfamily\/OldNames.html\">Victorian Era Names, A Writer&#8217;s Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/rpgs\/victoriannames.shtml\">Victorian Names<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other &#8220;Beyond &#8216;Fred'&#8221; posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2011\/09\/24\/2010\/08\/13\/beyond-fred\/\">Beyond \u2018Fred\u2019: Ancient Egyptian Names<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2011\/09\/24\/2010\/07\/22\/beyond-fred-anglo-saxon-names-for-characters\/\">Beyond \u2018Fred\u2019: Anglo-Saxon Names for Characters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/24\/beyond-fred-more-anglo-saxon-names\/\">Beyond &#8216;Fred&#8217;: More Anglo-Saxon Names<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2011\/07\/12\/beyond-fred-german-names-for-characters\/\">Beyond \u2018Fred\u2019: German Names for Characters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2011\/09\/24\/2010\/02\/12\/beyond-fred-italian-names-for-characters\/\">Beyond \u2018Fred\u2019: Italian Names for Characters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2011\/09\/24\/2009\/10\/05\/beyond-fred-roman-names-for-characters\/\">Beyond \u2018Fred\u2019: Roman Names for Characters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/2011\/09\/24\/2009\/11\/06\/beyond-fred-russian-names-for-characters\/\">Beyond \u2018Fred\u2019: Russian Names<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has trouble coming up with character names, at least occasionally. Especially GMs, who frequently have to come up with names on the spur of the moment. That&#8217;s what this series, &#8220;Beyond &#8216;Fred&#8217;&#8221; is all about: providing lists of names &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/beyond-fred-names-for-victorian-games\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[66,223,65,16,166],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characters","tag-beyond-fred","tag-characters","tag-names","tag-npcs","tag-victorian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}