I've decided to take some advice and incorporate some real names into my novel for familiarity's sake. So I need names that DON'T contain the letters b, c, j, l, m, o, p, q, u, w, x or y. The language I'm deriving these names from is very limited. I have a couple names that already belonged to my characters like Kaesi, Nat, and Zahn (like Timothy Zahn), and a couple I'm considering like Dash, Shard, etc. Can you help boost my arsenal? I don't anticipate needing very many but it's good to be prepared. Is there some kind of search engine where I can look for baby names that only contain certain letters? PS, to my readers who prefer dramatic names-- don't worry, I'm only changing a few.
Maybe you could use a scrabble search where you can put in the letters you want to use and see what words it suggests, but they would be real words not necessarily names.
That could work. I'd like a few real names though. But yeah, words like Ash, Shard, Shank... Oh! I just thought of a name. Kant.
I'm not sure what software you have access to, but here's how I would do it. Let's say I have a list of names, but I don't want names with the letter 'R' in them. I would copy that list into Microsoft Excel (I'm only doing the first 20 names for demonstration purposes) as shown below: Abelard Ada Adal Adal Adalard Adalbert Adalgar Adalhard Adalheid Adalheida Adali Adalicia Adalie Adaliz Adalric Adalrik Adalwen Adalwin Adalwine Adalwolf I would do CTRL+H to bring up the Find and Replace dialogue box, then replace all 'r's with three non-asterisk special characters in a row (in this case, &^). If I were doing multiple letters, I would also replace those letters with &^ at this time. The list will now look like this: Abela&^d Ada Adal Adal Adala&^d Adalbe&^t Adalga&^ Adalha&^d Adalheid Adalheida Adali Adalicia Adalie Adaliz Adal&^ic Adal&^ik Adalwen Adalwin Adalwine Adalwolf Adalwolfa Adel Adela Adelaide Adelbe&^t Adele Adelha&^d Adelheid Adelheide Adelina Adelinda Adeline I would CTRL+H again and replace *& with nothing. The asterisk symbol indicates that all characters before and including & should be replaced. The list will now look like this: ^d Ada Adal Adal ^d ^t ^ ^d Adalheid Adalheida Adali Adalicia Adalie Adaliz ^ic ^ik Adalwen Adalwin Adalwine Adalwolf Adalwolfa Adel Adela Adelaide ^t Adele ^d Adelheid Adelheide Adelina Adelinda Adeline Repeat the same process, except now replacing ^* with nothing. The list will now look like this: Ada Adal Adal Adalheid Adalheida Adali Adalicia Adalie Adaliz Adalwen Adalwin Adalwine Adalwolf Adalwolfa Adel Adela Adelaide Adele Adelheid Adelheide Adelina Adelinda Adeline I now have the r-less names I want, but there are a bunch of pointless carriage returns. If you copy the list into Notepad (to remove the table formatting), then copy from Notepad to Microsoft Word, simply do a CTRL+H in Microsoft Word and replace "^p^p" with "^p" repeatedly until no useless spaces exist. ^p is the code recognized by Microsoft Word to indicate where a carriage return exists: we're basically replacing all instances of multiple carriage returns with single ones. My list of r-less names is now complete: Ada Adal Adal Adalheid Adalheida Adali Adalicia Adalie Adaliz Adalwen Adalwin Adalwine Adalwolf Adalwolfa Adel Adela Adelaide Adele Adelheid Adelheide Adelina Adelinda Adeline This works in Microsoft Excel/Word, but if you're using different programs, the syntax might be different. In any case, best of luck!
Looks like there are a few baby name generators, such as this one, where you can input letters you want included.
Google names based on gender. And if you feel adventurous add a country in the search. Example: (type in search bar) Lists of girls names (press enter/return) (sift through results) (open links, and sift through names until you find one that you like) (return to search page and continue search, or close tab when done) It is not rocket-surgery, it just takes a bit of time is all. Good Luck.
I'll help you out by giving you the letters that are not the ones listed. a d e f g h i k n r s t v x z By generating a list with these letters, you have excluded the ones you don't want. Unless you just really need a program that has to exclude for whatever reason.
