Vor- oder Nach-?

beides :) aber eher Nachnamen

Nachnamen: Smith, Brown, Grey, Black, White, etc.
Vornamen: Henry, George, Matthew, Michael, Thomas, Daniel, Oliver, Elizabeth, Sarah, Lucy, Laura, Claire/Clare, Katherine/Catherine


Are the first ones that come to mind.

Piggot-Smith, Featherstonehaugh, Cholmondeley

http://www.last-names.net/origincat.asp?origi...
hier ist eine ganze Liste von Nachnamen.

http://www.dolltoy.com/uk2.html
Here is a list of the 50 commonest and rarest British Surnames. This list was compiled from an analysis of the Electoral Rolls.

http://homepages.newnet.co.uk/dance/webpjd/
This list was supplied by the ONS. It is taken from a survey of the National Health Service Central Register. The database only covers England, Wales and the Isle of Man ; Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own systems.

Vielen Dank!!!!!!!!!

Noch "englischer" als


Clifford Mortimer Fitzgerald III
Locomotive Breath 211, Shroudsbury upon Castle, Nowhereshire, Poorsex

kann für mich kein Name klingen.

Clifford Mortimer Fitzgerald III
can only be an American.
In England only Kings and Queens have numbers.

@ eastworld
You're taking the proverbial with those names, aren't you?
No-one could be called something like that.
Signed,
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
TV chef and professional English posh bloke.

But to be a bit more serious, the most common English name is John Smith. I remember seeing a seriously boring programme on the box many moons back called The John Smith Show, where the entire studio audience was called John Smith, and then voted on a whole range of issues. It's the British equivalent of Otto Normalverbraucher (as far as this isn't Joe Bloggs).

If you're going to choose and English surname, you really do need to consider the class connotations. Dear Hugh F-W (see above) is going to be one of the working classes as little as the mythical Joe Bloggs will be related to the aristocracy. Some names are relatively class-neutral. Brown, for instance, which could even be used by the Scots.

And that's the other point - do you need any regional or national variations? There are some names typical for Scotland, Wales or the North of England which are atypical for 'England'.

Actually it the region doesn't really matter, because the characters are from all over GB. But which names would be typical for Scotland? And what names are typical aristocratic? I never really thought about these differences, but you are totally right to distinguish these groups of names!

I read a report a few years ago confirming what Yackydar said earlier that Smith is the most common surname in the UK, however the interesting part was that in the 50`s and 60`s it was followed by Brown and Jones, today Smith remains the most common name but is now followed by Patel ,Brown and Jones ! I am in no way making an racist remark here, I just found it an interesting fact how things can change in such a relatively short amount of time!

So we might need to know things like class and ethnicity.

A newsagent is unlikely to be called Majoribanks or Cholmondeley. Or Tracy.

Most of my characters are very rich and influential in politics and business.
Most of them are between 40 and 65 years old. But I also have a few young female characters at around 23. They are all more or less upper class and aristocratic.

Helen
Helena
Catherine
Sarah
Beatrice
Georgia
Ann
Diana

Rufus Excalibur ffolkes is MY favourite, but unfortunatelz it's alreadz taken ;-)

Typisch schottische Familiennamen (Auswahl):

Cameron, Campbell, Douglas, Gordon, Sinclair, Armstrong, Frazer, Munro, Ross, Barrie, Beaton, Galbraith, Ruthven, Marr...

MacDonald, MacNeill, MacLean, MacLeod, MacNabb, MacAlistair, MacPherson, MacMillan, MacKay, MacKenzie, MacNally, MacArthur, MacAuley, MacCartney...

Typisch schottische Vornamen (Männer, Auswahl):

Hamish, Sean, Gordon, Collum, Archie, Diarmid, Alasdair, Angus, Kenneth, Dougal, Fergus, Finlay, Graham, Iain, Jamie, Jock, Murdoch, Rory, Roy, Tam...

#17: die zweite Gruppe natürlich auch in der McXyz-Variante ... :-)

ashley
jane
sharpay
jt
jc
dj
amanda
logan
sabrina
ginny
sue
paggy
ben
phoebe
andy
jess
dean
kate
marge
mary
bones als nachname

Tipp:
denk einfach an serien:
z.b. gilmore girls, charmed, sabrina total verhext, csi,
olsen twins, simpsons....

a) Nach mehr als 4 Wochen ist die Kurzgeschichte hoffentlich fertig.
b) Die von Dir genannten Vornamen JT, JC und DJ sind IMO keine Vornamen, sondern Abkürzungen.

c) Es geht um typisch brittische Namen und nicht um typisch Amerikanische.

d) Wann fängt die Schule wieder an?

in Kommentar #10 erfahren wir:
... It's the British equivalent of Otto Normalverbraucher ...

What is the British equivalent to Frau Mustermann?

Joe Bloggs

or Jane Doe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bloggs

John Citizen scheint es auch zu geben: Siehe Wörterbuch: Durchschnittsbürger

Lustig finde ich die US-Version John Q. Public Siehe Wörterbuch: Mustermann