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I'm hitting a bit of a mental block trying to come up with names for a story I'm working on if anyone would like to help out a bit. The group I'm naming chooses a name at 18 generally based on things they wish for their future adult selves, such as goals they want to accomplish, traits and skills they want to cultivate, virtues they want to embody, things like that. I'll take any suggestions and reply with what they would be in the language I have set up for these guys.
Silliness is encouraged, they're in a conlang anyway and most people today don't associate the name Peter with stone so I can handwave calling someone the equivalent of like Hog-Cranker 9000 if I like the name enough
if they're picking names at 18 there's definitely at least one person named hog-cranker 9000
exactly
These people pick up additional names throughout their life (both given and chosen) with no real upper-limit on the amount. Most mark big life occasions or important events but there's also a non-insignificant number of joke/less serious names and some will just keep adding more and more names to seem more important/prestigious that they start sounding like something between someone trying to meet the word requirement of an essay and a rejected My Immortal character
I can't remember the name of the series but there was s apopular one just recently where an offshot of a mesoamerican empire had a cool naming convention. It was number and noun. So characters of note were " One Lightning" "square root 2 all terrain vehicle" " five seagrass" I thought the system was both evocative and flexible.