About celtic (breton) names
K-heavy spellings and the article surname in "Maele Ar Garreg" announce Breton immediately, alongside results like "Kaourintin Pezron" and the diminutive ig ending of "Azenorig Guegan". These names suit coastal Brittany fiction, megalith-haunted folk horror, or a Celtic fantasy region that should not read as Irish or Welsh. The Ar and Le surnames work as instant geography markers.
How celtic (breton) names are built
A name pairs a gender-tagged given name with a surname from a 332-entry surname pool. The male given bank holds 1,050 entries and the female bank 646, giving male pulls like Kenider Le Goarnig and Laou Ar Garreg and female pulls like Lena Pezron.
Kenider Le Goarnig
Kenider (given, male bank) + Le Goarnig (surname)
Lena Pezron
Lena (given, female bank) + Pezron (surname)
Laou Ar Garreg
Laou (given, male bank) + Ar Garreg (surname)
Naming notes
Female draws use the female given-name bank, male draws the male one, and both attach a surname from a shared pool of 332 entries. The surname bank carries forms that keep a leading Le or Ar particle (Le Goarnig, Ar Garreg). Region label: Brittany. The male given bank is the largest of the three, so male given names vary more before a surname repeats.
Questions about celtic (breton) names
- How is a name assembled?
- A given name is drawn from the male 1,050-entry bank or the female 646-entry bank, then a surname is drawn from the shared 332-entry pool, giving results like Laou Ar Garreg or Lena Pezron.
- Why do some surnames carry a leading Le or Ar?
- Those tokens are part of the surname entries in the 332-entry pool (Le Goarnig, Ar Garreg); the generator keeps them attached as stored.
- How big are the banks?
- 1,050 male given names and 646 female given names feed two patterns, both closing on the same 332-entry surname pool.