Names

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Kathryn" <kcawte at k...> wrote:
> I've been wandering around the net looking at sites dealing with 
> names because i need some for my writings and I wanted inspiration
> (and btw anyone who can suggest good sites I would appreciate it)

This is a pretty good name site: http://www.behindthename.com/

This is one source for unusual and Latinate names: 
http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/ss-index.htm

I was looking for an Armenian name for a character in a future fic, 
so I Asked Jeeves 'Where are Armenian given names?" and was led to 
http://www.feefhs.org/am/am-fem.html (with links to male names and 
surnames). Just in case, Ask Jeeves is at: http://www.ask.com/

OMG, I just tried it again and got a whole PAGE of appropriate name 
links, like here is an SCA resource: 
http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-names.html

> have names you love/hate, suggestions for names and what sort of 
> impression the name would give you. 

In RL, I have a weakness for girls' names with issa. Like Marissa and 
Elissa and Janissa. 

I've worked up some punny names for the Potterverse, that I would 
welcome other people to use:

One is a firm of very successfully attack lawyers: Newcombe and 
Balmer (sounds like Nuk'em and Bomber). That's Willa Newcomble and 
Mad Balmer, that is, Willa Weasley Newcombe (who was a Gryffindor) 
and Madeline Moon Balmer (who was a Ravenclaw), both Purebloods who 
married Muggle-born wizards, showing where their allegiances lie. And 
their best investigator is a Slytherin Old Girl named Robin Steele.

A company that manufactures stuff like hair potion, scented soap, and 
cleaning powder (for the wizard version of dry cleaning, which is to 
sprinkle the magic powder on the garment and then brush it off), and 
sells it in some cute little ruffled faux-Victorian retail shops. 
Named Comfort & Joy after the 19th century foundresses, Mrs. John 
Comfort and Mrs. Erasmus Joy --- that is, two sisters, Alexandara and 
Wilhelmina Brewer (those were their married names), who accidentally 
started a business selling Hair Potion from a secrt recipe in their 
mother's family, and expanded.