In a few AARs, it's been noted that the same names keep popping up over and over again for different characters. Part of the reason for this is that the file character_names.csv has too few names for some cultures. So, I'm starting an effort to collect additional names for the under-represented cultures - the more names the AI has to choose from, the less often it will pick the same ones.
What I'd like is for people to research and suggest names for inclusion in an expanded character_names.csv file. It would be very helpful if you would list your suggestions in the format of the character_names file, which is: culture;gender;name - hopefully it's obvious what each field means. Ideally, the names will be those that were used by actual nobles in the cultures in question. I'd like to get to the point where we have at least 25 names for both men and women for every culture.
So, post your suggestions in this thread, and I'll collect them.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Some statistics follow on the number of names for each gender in the existing character_names.csv file. I've sorted it so that the cultures most in need of attention are at the top. (Latin is at the bottom because, apparantly, it is only used for the names of popes - hence the lack of Latin female names.)
What I'd like is for people to research and suggest names for inclusion in an expanded character_names.csv file. It would be very helpful if you would list your suggestions in the format of the character_names file, which is: culture;gender;name - hopefully it's obvious what each field means. Ideally, the names will be those that were used by actual nobles in the cultures in question. I'd like to get to the point where we have at least 25 names for both men and women for every culture.
So, post your suggestions in this thread, and I'll collect them.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Some statistics follow on the number of names for each gender in the existing character_names.csv file. I've sorted it so that the cultures most in need of attention are at the top. (Latin is at the bottom because, apparantly, it is only used for the names of popes - hence the lack of Latin female names.)
Code:
CULTURE MALE FEMALE
georgian 13 4
alan 19 5
lappish 6 14
lithuanian 33 8
prussian 23 10
norman 24 11
finnish 23 13
bohemian 21 20
dutch 26 15
welsh 27 14
portuguese 24 19
catalan 36 14
armenian 39 19
saxon 37 22
danish 43 18
english 36 27
basque 36 29
persian 35 32
cuman 27 41
pecheneg 27 41
scottish 43 25
irish 41 32
russian 46 28
swedish 53 27
castillan 50 33
mongol 64 25
italian 62 30
polish 60 33
turkish 55 41
norwegian 68 30
lettigallish 80 18
frankish 60 42
german 84 32
abghazian 109 38
hungarian 90 58
muslim 109 39
westernslavic 104 65
southslavic 152 25
greek 111 83
latin 22 0
Either I should be astounded at the difficulty of finding names for a culture which presently exists or astounded that they found so many names for a culture which is long dead. What is a Pecheneg name anyway? 
