About male moorish names
How male moorish names are built
A gendered given name joins a gendered second element: 188 male and 72 female given names join 260 male second-position entries and 260 female second-position entries. A male result reads given plus an ibn- or al-form entry and a female result given plus a bint- or al-form entry. Sample output includes Marwan ibn Malik and Karim al-Shatibi for men and Nabila bint Tamim and Fahima al-Gasani for women.
Faris ibn Shu'ayb
Faris (given, male bank) + ibn Shu'ayb (second element, male bank)
Nabila bint Nasr
Nabila (given, female bank) + bint Nasr (second element, female bank)
Badr al-Haddad
Badr (given, male bank) + al-Haddad (second element, male bank)
Naming notes
Male draws pair the male given-name bank with the male second-position bank, female draws the female given-name bank with the female second-position bank. The second-position entries are stored as written, including forms that begin with ibn, bint or al-. Region label: Moorish, Al-Andalus and the Maghreb. The two second-position banks are the larger pools at 260 each.
Questions about male moorish names
- How is a Moorish name assembled?
- A given name is drawn from the male 188-entry bank or the female 72-entry bank, then a second element from the matching 260-entry second-position bank.
- Why do male and female second elements differ?
- Male draws use the second-position bank whose entries carry ibn and al- forms, and female draws the one mixing bint and al- forms, each 260 entries.
- How large are the banks?
- 188 male and 72 female given names, with two 260-entry second-position banks, one per gender.