I'm searching for surnames.?

Question

As a writer, I collect names. Given names are a lot easier to come up with than surnames, as there are multiple baby-name databases on the internet.

Does anyone know of a database of surnames? Or sites on the history of names?

Answer 1

How about.

Antracan

Aylesworth

Argaule

Boshart

Beauchamp

Crawbuck

Critchet

Answer 2

http://www.surnameweb.org/

http://www.rootsweb.com/

Enjoy

Answer 3

Try:

http://www.houseofnames.com/

or:

http://www.searchforancestors.com/surnam...

then there is:

http://www.behindthename.com/name/

and:

http://www.surnameweb.org/

and then there is:

http://names.mongabay.com/most_common_su...

ranking the first 1,000 most common names, most popular girl's names and most popular boy's names.

Have fun!

Answer 4

I've been known to use a phone book to pick out a character's name. It's free, and it's easy.

It usually took a couple tries, since the name has to be different from other characters (easier for the reader to keep track) and sometimes I'd just alter the names to make them funny, weird, or fit the character better.

You can also fold out the phone book, and throw a dart, and accept the name as is. Easy, and you don't need to boot the computer to pull off this trick. Just don't aim at the cat...

Answer 5

How about these?

Wilson

Gilbert

Mcdonald

McLachan

O'Leary

O'Donnel

McAllister

Daniels

Peterson

Anderson

Matthews

Robertson

Davison

Muir

Cockburn

Constantine

Burnett

Simpson

Roberts

Parker

Reynolds

Grant

Aitken

Williams

Wilkinson