![]() When Arya Stark is “lost” in Braavos, she becomes “A girl with no name.” Only until she finds her true self, does she refer to herself as Arya Stark again.Ĭonsidering a ASOIF/Game of Thrones Name for your Baby?īe careful. Some characters are only referred to by one letter: C, H, O.ġ2. TomToo, Big Boil, Toefinger, Tickler, Sand Snakes, Rat Cook, Patchface, Moon Boy, Jack-Be-Lucky, Poxy Tym, Cutjack.ġ1. Martin peppers his cast of characters with silly names, which sound like they are plucked out of children’s books. Brienne of Tarth, Tom of Sevenstreams, Thoros of Myr, Watt of Longlake, Arlan of Pennytree, Bran the Builder.ġ0. ![]() Similarly, Martin often uses occupational or place names as surnames, a common practice in early England. Daenerys, Beony, Denys, Frynne, Mhaegan, Edwyn, Elys, Dykk, Lenyl.ĩ. Martin often uses Welsh-like spellings–specifically using the letter Y in place of an I or E. As mentioned above, real naming conventions are used to create new names. Daenerys Targaryen played by Emilia ClarkeĨ. Androw, Polliver, Ortin, Illifer, Victaria, Mollander, Joseth, Dunaver, Abelar, Jodge. Real names-given and surnames-are changed just a bit to create new names. Theor Greyjoy is re-named “Reek” by his captor in order to demean him.ħ. It is later revealed that his true name is Walder (a name shared by nine other characters) and that the utterance “Hodor” was a foreshadowing of a pivotal scene in the series. One character can only say one word, “Hodor,” which we assume is also his name. The surname “Snow” indicates a person was born illegitimately out of wedlock. Melisandre, Ygritte, Osha, Craster, Orell, Gilly, Hodor, Varys.Ħ. Wildings, Free folk, and other fantastical/quirky characters tend to only have a given name (no family name). Some characters are only referred to by nick name or description: Mad Axe, Old Grey Gull, Sleepy Jack, Smiling Knight, Stone Thumbs, Pudding, Alebelly, Spotted Pate the Pig Boy.ĥ. ![]() Sandor Clegane is most often called “The Hound,” and Petyr Baelish, “Littlefinger.” Ygritte played by Rose LeslieĤ. Catelyn (pronounced CAT-a-lin, not KATE-lyn) is called Cat. As in real life, characters have nick names. Male characters are sometimes named after their father or another character.ģ. As in a real society, first (given) names are reused. The most popular names are Jon (22) and Jeyne (17) for male and female characters, respectively.Ģ. Observations from my analysis of the ASOIF/Game of Thrones full character name list*: The most common name in ASOIF: Jonġ. Popular character names from literature and television often influence baby naming trends. The name Arya/Aria skyrocketed onto the popularity charts in the year 2011, the year Game of Thrones debuted on HBO. I personally know of one couple who just recently named their newborn daughter Khaleesi. Many of the names Martin created for the books are now becoming real baby names in and of themselves. Truth Following Fiction: Popular character names from literature and television often influence baby naming trends. I’ve never known a Polliver, personally, but I hear it once, and it does sound like a name to me. He does that by using a simple actual English word name like Oliver and changing it just a bit to make a character named Polliver. And although they are purely imagined by the author, they still seem like acceptable personally identifiable names. But a great majority of the ASOIF character names are created by Martin himself. Many are just simply plucked from current name charts (Kyle, Jon, Lucas, Jenny, Kyra). Some of his names are based on Medieval and old Celtic names, which normally conjure up a fantastical world. Well, maybe with the exception of Daenerys. Martin’s characters reflect our continuing advice about creating fantasy names: make them easy to pronounce and easy to spell. There are currently 2,054 named characters in the A Song of Ice and Fire, series - the books on which the HBO television series Game of Thrones is based. Martin has succeeded in creating some of the best fantasy names in literature.
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