kannelart patreon

Suggestion: Sam Last Name

🕑 Added 2018-05-29 20:46:44 +0000 UTC

Comments

Kaffeyette Lektor

OK, Sorry, I can't ever write a short post. I think it depends how much you want the name to create an image of the character, or to use it in the plot or dialogue. If you want Sam to have a certain cultural background in the story, e.g., Irish, then use a stereotypical name for that culture, like O'Reilly. Scottish - MacDonald. German - Schmidt. Dutch - van der Hoogendoover, or whatever. It doesn't have to be a true name, just one that most people will associate with a certain culture. If you want him to seem like a rural / simple / plain character, so the reader has low expectations, or someone from a low income family, use a simple name like a colour - Black, White, Green - or a country feature - Hill, Fields, Rivers, or a trade occupation - Miller, Cooper, Farmer, Carpenter. If you want him to be from a more wealthy background, maybe a double-barrelled name - Dorrien-Smith, Willoughby-Fitzsimmons. If you want to use his name for puns or satire in the plot, maybe something like Smallwood, Hardman, Daley-Rhyde or Broadmouth or Philcox. If you want people to recognise and accept it immediately, or create an image like someone else, use a name like someone famous - Sammy Davis, Sam Jackson, Sam Beckett, Sam Lacey, Sammy Jessop, Sammy Lee, Sammy Jay, Sammy Fox. If you want a porn-star or superhero comic sounding name for Sammy's sexy time, use alliteration - Sam Sloane, Sam Summers, Sam Stonewell. If you want a name describing his/her character as it will emerge in your story-line (Sammy Spoilers) or as a 'red herring', then maybe choose a name he/she(?) will eventually (fail to) live up to - Sammy Catspaw, Muggins, Victor, Chalmers, Trollop. My favourites, however, would be Chevalier or Beaumont after the Chevalier d'Eon - a famous cross-dressing spy from the 1700's.

Sam Blake?

Fahzbehn

Hopewell maybe?

Martin Lock

"Sam Summers" is a bit too superhero-ish, I agree... a relative of Scott Summers? If his first name is so short, and not a full Samuel, a longer last name seems needed - Kennedy, perhaps? And not Sam Antha... ;)

Royse Loren Leech

My last name Leech...HAHA How Wilson... Good simple but not overly used name

Dustin Angle

Johnson seems pretty regular and he kind of strikes me as a Johnson

ippherita

Gamgee (Samwise Gamgee) or Tarly (Samwell Tarly)

Why not Sam Manning, because I admire Chelsea Mannning and it would be a nice form to recognize brave Chelsea!!!

Violet Farris

I know someone who's last name is Alyce. I think this is pretty fitting because he is going down the rabbit hole with Raan, like Alice went down the rabbit hole to Wonder Land. It's also very effeminate which is something to play with.

Dynamoob

My feeling is that the last name "Summers" makes Sam's name sound too much like it was given to him by Stan Lee. I would go with something like "Wilson", "Reed", "Bailey" or "Coleman". None are very masculine surnames which suit Sam and his character development.