Human names

[your-loveyou.livejournal.com]

Jeez, you've probably seen this topic a million times, so if there's a past entry you could refer me to, I'd love you forever.

I'm working on a couple AU fics involving just about everyone and I run into a wall when I realize nations I want to include don't have names (eg, Ukraine, Iceland, Cuba, and Seychelles)

Discuss?

Because I am unworldly and adore getting assistance.

PS: Does Belgium (who also has no human name?) show up in anything other than the World Conference strip?  If so, could you point me to it?

Thanks a million,
Me

Comments

[jim-t-kirk.livejournal.com]

Well, you might switch between human name and country name with those that have both (like, say Arthur, and then UK, and then Arthur, etc), so it won't be so evident who doesn't have a name... Like "Alfred saw France and Seychelles kiss, and asdf..."
Or invent a name, though you should put a warning or something at the beginning of the fic...

[electriclaugh.livejournal.com]

I'm not all too sure about Iceland and Cuba and people, but i think I could contribute Ukraine. Her nickname is like Katyusha or however in the name of hell you spell it. But I used Katya instead, number one to shorten it and it is a Ukrainian name, see having a Ukrainian piano teacher who has a granddaughter comes in handy. haha.

[tanya-tsuki.livejournal.com]

I, too, am writing an AU fic that requires human names XD I spent all of yesterday evening coming up with a few so I'll share? haha

Ukraine - Kateryna Bondarenko
Iceland - Reynir (According to the research I did, it's more common to name Icelandic children after animals or trees and there generally isn't a last name. I could be wrong though. He was the last one I searched for)
Cuba - José Chavez
Seychelles - Michelle “Shel” Belmont

What I did was I looked up popular names and surnames for each country, as well as influences other countries may have had. Seychelles was a bit challenging, though, but there were apparently a lot of English and French influences. So I came up with Michelle, and Belmont is actually the last name of a politician (I can't remember which one :-\ )

And I believe Belgium only appears in the World Conference strip.

[your-loveyou.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks so much for sharing~

[noobcomplex.livejournal.com]

I KEW IT, SEYCHELLES IS APART OF THE BELMONT CLAN!

(i'm sorry, but my older brother would kill me if i didn't make a castlevania reference there.)

[gomimushi.livejournal.com]

Iceland goes by the patronymic naming system, so children take their father's first name as their last name.

i.e. Son of a man named Eirík would be something Eiríksson and his daughter would be Something Eiríksdottir.

I have no idea what that would mean for a nation, but yeaah, just throwing that in there. ´w`

[the-crazy-freak.livejournal.com]

there generally isn't a last name.

I friend of mine visited Iceland last year and she said that people there get surnames after their fathers. For instance, if the father's name is "Adam", his son's surname is "Adamsson" (meaning "the son of Adam") and his daughter's surname is "Adamsdottir" (meaning "the daughter of Adam").

[the-crazy-freak.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I didn't see Pandarosi already pointed that out. ^^;

[xue.livejournal.com]

This is why I only use "Arthur" "Kiku" "Alfred" and "Francis." 8D /shot

[notlittlerussia.livejournal.com]

RE: Ukraine. Her original Wiki profile gave her name as Katyusha, which is a Slavic endearing diminutive of "Katya" which comes from "Yekaterina" (and all its forms; Katerina, Ekaterina, so on so forth), so she has at least a canon first name. I was unable to find her last name so I gave her the feminine form of her brother's last name rather than just pull one completely out of thin air. The feminine form of "-sky[j]" is "skaja/-skaya" which was why I gave her the name "Braginskaya" ...and then my Russian friend told me that Ukrainians typically don't differentiate between feminine and masculine surnames. MY BAD. My profile has the translated profile in its original entirety. :D