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Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
 
For the character I am currently working on, I need to pick a noble sounding british last names, but I don't know that many. The character's name is Sara, but what last name can go with it? Any ideas, anyone?
 

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
Thwaite
 

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Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
 
I like Walker or Turner myself. You may not care for those though.

This is where I pulled names from
 

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Posted by tern (Member # 7429) on :
 
Winchester or Tudor. Also Ludwig and Saxe-Gotha, but I'm guessing those two won't work.
 

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Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
 
Blaine-Hawthorn-Smythe-Higgins, eh, what?
 

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Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
 
I would go with Sara Wallace.

Come on! Wallace!!!! FREEEDOM!!!
 

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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 
alphabetical list of British last names
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
By "noble-sounding," do you mean that the character is in fact descended from British nobility? Because there are actually geneologies you can peruse online, if that's the case.
 

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Posted by Jonathan K. (Member # 7720) on :
 
If your looking for british nobility, i would go with the tudor family, they had Elizabeth I, and Henry VIII
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
Any name that isn't a profession name might do pretty well for sounding-wise, although there have been more modern nobility with basic-sounding names. Names of castles and names of stately homes can help give you some ideas. You can look at names of towns and cities, too. Although I'd steer away from really famous towns like London, Cambridge or Oxford, or really common-sounding ones like Newmarket or Leeds .

Names beginning with Fitz... Fitzwilliam, Fitzgerald etc. are always good. "French" names are another option, think Tess of the D'Urbervilles or Little Lord Fauntleroy. It depends what you're trying to convey.

Double barreled names, such as Sara Howard-Misslethorpe are traditionally more stuck up. Especially if one of the names (or both) is very long and silly like Misslethorpe.

Really, anything goes.

EDIT: I want to make exceptions but I keep thinking of titled people with the name. Like Lady Jane Grey, for example, although I don't think Brown, or Jones would really convey what you are trying to convey.
 

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Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
 
I like Braddock.

There's my two cents.
 

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Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
Sara Rutheford
 

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Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
 
If she's a nice person, why not Sara Townsend?

Never said I was modest.
 

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Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
 
Have you ever considered O'Dorthonion?
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
Or D'Orthonion?
 

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Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
 
I got a good laugh at those, but Dorthonion is an elvish name. I'm thinking that Sara Knightshayes sounds pretty noble to me.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 

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Names beginning with Fitz... Fitzwilliam, Fitzgerald etc. are always good.

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*giggles* In Norman days (I'm pretty sure that's when it was) the prefix "fitz" was added to a name to designate a recognized bastard child. *giggles*

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Yup. I know .

But William the Conqueror was a bastard child himself and it never stopped him from being awesome.
 

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