About female colonial american names
How female colonial american names are built
A name joins a gender-tagged given name to a surname from a 255-entry family-name pool. The forename banks are small, 133 male and 86 female, so a pull is simply a male or female forename followed by a surname, giving Michael Spencer, Ralph Hart and Sarah Bradford.
Michael Spencer
male forename from the 133-entry bank plus a surname from the shared pool
Sarah Bradford
female forename from the 86-entry bank plus a shared-pool surname
Ralph Hart
male forename plus a shared-pool surname
Naming notes
The female given-name bank is smaller than the male one (86 against 133), so female forenames repeat sooner. Both pair with the same 255-entry surname pool. The forename and surname banks carry an English colonial register as a period label rather than later American forms; use the set for settler and early-republic casts.
Questions about female colonial american names
- What period label fits these names?
- A colonial and early-republic English-settler label. The forename and surname banks are stocked for that era rather than later American naming.
- Why are there fewer female names?
- The female bank holds 86 forenames against 133 male, so the female slot has a narrower pool and repeats sooner than the male one.
- How does this differ from the Puritan set?
- This set draws ordinary English period forenames; the Puritan generator stocks virtue and hortatory names that this bank does not include.