Common Telelelene Names

The distinction between first and last names is slight among the Telelelenes. Most names can serve for either (though no one has the name first and last name). Many names can also be given to both males and females.

The second name may, but does not always, indicate family. Some family lines will give the same first name to their children, or have one such name for boys and another for girls, or a special name to the first-born of each generation. Some surnames are more along the lines of nicknames, given by the person's acquaintances, sometimes in adulthood. Yet a person with such a name may give it to their children, so that it starts to be used as a family name.

Many Telelelenes, perhaps one in every four or five, have but one name.

The custom of having a middle name is unknown.

It should be noted that some items on the following list have two or more words, but are considered by the Telelelenes to be a single name.

There is little difference in names between one race and another, aside from particular religious groups and recent immigrants, since the cosmopolitan Telelelenes will use any name that they like the sound of. Thus new waves of immigration may change the names of the cityfolk out of proportion to their numbers. This tendency to innovation is counter-balanced by the common practice of consulting fortune-tellers when choosing a name, who tend to recommend names dignified by a famous sage, hero or ruler.

Note that this list only relates to birth-names. Sorcerers are often given, or give themselves, names such as Man of Hunger. Likewise, Telelelenes give cognomen or nicknames to famous people, which replace the second name if one exists. Thus the explorer Haroun Timeandtide became Haroun the Wretched. This is simliar to the practice in our world of giving names to historical rulers (such as William the Conquerer or Nicholas the Bloody). However in Teleleli it is applied during the person's life, and may be applied to explorers, philosophers and the like as well as rulers.

1. Abanazir
2. Agatha^{3 7}
3. Agnes^{3 7}
4. Ajibayo¹
5. Ambrosia^{3 5}
6. Ammat-Baal²
7. Anaxagoras^{4 5}
8. Appolonia²
9. Arnheld^{4 6}
10. Arnthrud²
11. Artemisios¹
12. Athousandapologies
13. Atkins^{4 6}
14. Barelegs⁶
15. Beloved
16. Be-Steadfast
17. Betrys²
18. Biddy^{3 7}
19. Blood-On-The-Arm
20. Boneless
21. Bright Skin
22. Brightness
23. Bukawayo
24. Cathlin^{3 7}
25. Charis²
26. Chariton¹
27. Crumhorn
28. Damael
29. Deanna^{3 7}
30. Dionysia²
31. Djemmela^{3 5}
32. Dodekatheon¹
33. Ektor^{4 5}
34. Epaminondas¹
35. Euphemia^{3 5}
36. Few-Clothes
37. Freygerd²
38. Gadabout
39. Geirmund¹
40. Goodenough⁶
41. Goody^{3 7}
42. Greedyguts⁶
43. Grimhildr²
44. Halfempty
45. Halfull⁶
46. Hassan¹
47. Hekabe²
48. Hekabe^{3 5}
49. Hekatotaratos¹
50. Highpants⁶
51. Hisvet^{3 5}
52. Iakkos^{4 5}
53. Ichabod^{4 5}
54. Idris
55. Ingrid^{3 7}
56. Ingvar^{4 5}
57. Ishtar-rabi-at²
58. Isisnofret²
59. Jobsworth
60. Kallistrate²
61. Kittybiscuits
62. Lackland⁶
63. Leofric¹
64. Longshanks⁶
65. Macabee
66. Macout
67. Neferu²
68. Notsoblind
69. Nur-ishtar¹
70. Obadiah^{4 5}
71. Olwen²
72. Owl-Waits-For-The-Moon
73. Padrath
74. Perdus
75. Perilandera²
76. Prudence^{3 7}
77. Ragnvald¹
78. Seti¹
79. She-Is-Not-Sterile³
80. Sidebottom
81. Sigrid^{3 5}
82. Sigrun²
83. Silka^{3 5}
84. Skallagrim¹
85. Snorri^{4 6}
86. Solemn⁷
87. Sparrow
88. Sun
89. Taruk¹
90. Tasmetum-sharrat²
91. Temperance⁷
92. Tibbletibtub
93. Timeandtide
94. Two Souls
95. Ummi-waqrat²
96. Viola^{3 7}
97. Violet^{3 7}
98. Wobblebottom
99. Yashub-yahad¹
100. Young Jewel

1 This name is used as a first name, or single name, for males only. It may be used as a second name for either gender.
2 This name is used as a first name, or single name, for females only. It may be used as a second name for either gender.
3 This name is used for females only.
4 This name is used for males only.
5 This name is never used as a second name. It can be used as a first or single name.
6 This name is never used as a single name. It can be used as a first or second name.
7 This name is only used as a first name, never as a second or single name.