: Re: Inventing names for Sci-Fi characters How can I invent names for fictional characters in a future-setting Sci-Fi story so they won't be connected to any existing culture? I considered the following

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Constrained Randomness.
One fun trick is to take a bunch of names from one or more cultures with lexically interesting names, then generate random names that are different but lexically similar.

The Gibberizer.
I created a free (and open source) tool to do generate such lexically similar names:
The Gibberizer.
It's a little old, but it still works just fine.

The idea is this:
You give The Gibberizer a bunch of text (e.g. names),
and it gives you back a bunch of text that is lexically similar to the text you gave it.

You can fiddle with some of the input parameters,
such as how similar its output should be to your input.

Different but similar.
Because the generated names are lexically similar to the ones you entered,
they are more-or-less pronounceable,
and reasonably familiar-sounding.
Because they are random,
they can sometimes be weird.
You can adjust the weirdness.

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