Stock Foreign Name / African to Estonian

African

Unisex

• Probably The Unpronouncable
• Names with a -tum or -tun sound, like Mutumbo or Tunde
• Names with a click sound, especially for Khoisan
• May also be the same as Middle Eastern names, if they're Muslim, and sometimes if they're not.
• An English first name with a distinctly non-English last name, probably due to famous Africans like Nelson Mandela^note whose actual first name was Rolihlahla and Desmond Tutu.
• Names starting with an M or an N, directly followed by another consonant — Mbutu or Nkwichi, for example.
• Africans in the British ex-colonies often have rather literal English first names that almost never appear in Britain itself—Goodness, Precious and Thankgod are good examples.
• Similarly, in former French colonies names like Bienfait, Dieudonné, Trésor and Désiré can be encountered.
• Kwame
  • No doubt encouraged by the character from Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
  • The guide from George of the Jungle, despite it being set in a Swahili-speaking country, not in Ghana.
• Kofi, even if the character isn't from Ghana. Likely reinforced by the fame of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
• In many colonial stories, Black Africans will have short names like "Koko" or "Toto".

Albanian

General

• Stock Albanian names tend to be of either Albanian or religious origin, the latter usually being Arabic names as the country has a Muslim majority.

Masculine names

• Ahmet^note "Most commendable/praiseworthy", a cognate form of the Arabic name 'Ahmad/Ahmed'
• Bledi
• Dritan

Feminine names

• Albana
• Anisa^note "Friend/Friendly", the feminine form of 'Anis'
• Dua^note "Prayer"
• Shqiponja
• Shpresa^note "Hope"

Last names

• Anything ending with "xha" or "shi".

American Indian

• Most American Indian names, in English, can be generated here.
• Native Americans in Wild West settings will have names composed of an adjective and a noun, inspired by real life examples as Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud,...
  • "I'm An Indian, Too" from Annie Get Your Gun is a List Song featuring many names of this type.
  • In reference to The Lone Ranger, a "Tonto" might turn up.
  • Or, in reference to Karl May, a "Winnetou".
• A common Anglo-American first name followed by a surname composed of two common English words, often one of them an animal or the word "star" or "foot". E.g. James Proudstar, Danielle Moonstar, Warren Red Cloud, Marilyn Whirlwind, Leah Clearwater, John Redcorn, etc.

Arabian/Middle East

Masculine names

• Ab
  • In Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, one of the villains is named Abis Mal.
• Abdullah^note "Servant of Allah" (or Abdul)^note "Servant of the..." In Arabic-speaking countries, a name beginning with Abdul would be completed with a name of God, e.g. Abdul Aziz ("Servant of the Almighty"). Elsewhere, it may occasionally be a standalone name, but in fiction that's likely to be a research failure.
  • Quest for Glory 1 and 2 have Abdullah Doo, the pudgy merchant from Shapeir. The same game also has a part where if you rob a certain house and are detected, the owner will shout the names of his sons, Kareem, Abdul and Jabbar, respectively.
  • Tintin: Emir Ben Kalish Ezab's Royal Brat son is named Abdullah.
  • Batman: A Death in the Family, in one of its (many) unfortunate moments, has Jason Todd casually using it to mock an Arab terrorist. Later on, The Joker does the same with the aide that Iran's government gave him; the man quietly objects that his name is Yassar, which isn't really much more accurate.
• Abu^note Abu is actually not a name, but means "Father of-", e.g. Abu Yahya, meaning "Father of John"
• Ahmed/Ahmad^note "Most commendable/praiseworthy"
  • Or Achmed.
  • Jingo features 71-Hour Ahmed.^note "That's... er... that's an unusual name." "Not at all. Ahmed is a very common name in my country."
• Ali^note "Lofty/Sublime", also the name of the cousin/son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad
  • 24: In Season 6, there were 10 generic Middle-Eastern characters. Three of them were Abu, Ahmed and Omar. There were also Omars in Season 2 and 4.
  • "Prince Ali, fabulous he..."
• Muhammad/Mohammed:
  • Justified in that it supposedly is the most common name in the world.
  • Hetalia: Axis Powers: Egypt's "human name" by Word of God is Gupta Muhammad Hassan.
  • Jinzō Konchū Kabuto Borg VxV: Taj Mahd Mohamed Al Saud's Overly Long Name includes an alternate spelling of Muhammad, one of the most popular Muslim names, fitting for the UAE representative of the World Championships.
• Mustafa^note "The Chosen One", after an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad
• Omar^note "Populous/Flourishing", also spelt Umar
  • In Four Lions, Omar is the only member of the Jihadists who approaches competence.

Feminine names

• Anything with "eeda", "ifa" or "ina" at the end—Majeeda, Sharifa, Zafina, etc.
  • Zafina from Tekken 6 is from the Middle East, hinted to be Egypt.
• Aisha^note "Living/Alive", also the name of the Prophet Muhammad's third wife
• Fatima/Fatimah^note "To abstain", also the name of a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad
• Jasmine is an odd example. It was originally a Persian name before spreading across the rest of the Middle-East, but is now also very popular in Europe, North and South America.
  • Yasmin/Yasmine, too. This becomes a Brick Joke in Series 1 of How I Met Your Mother, upon Barney's discovering it's Lebanese.
• Noor/Nur^note "Light", from one of the 99 names of Allah
• Nadia^note "Moist/Tender/Delicate", also spelt Nadiyya
  • Nadia ...ish.
• Shakira is an Arabic name, most common in Egypt and Lebanon, meaning "thankful" and being the feminine form of the name 'Shakir'. Interestingly, the name's popularity in America/UK/Aus for baby girls dramatically increased for three two-month periods in 1997, 2005, and 2010.
  • Shakira, who is of Arab descent, but has the Spanish middle name Isabel.

Australian

• Aussies will nearly always use abbreviations and diminutives for first names — Steve-o, Bretty, Jakey, Shaz/Shazza etc. Especially if they're The Bogan.

Masculine names

• Barry ("Bazza")
• Bruce
  • As (in-)famously made fun of by Monty Python in their Bruces sketch
• Darren ("Dazza")
• Gary ("Gazza")
• Jarred/Jarrod
• Lance
• Ned (as in Kelly)
• Shane
  • Shane, the Australian engine from Thomas & Friends.

Feminine names

• Jan/Janelle for older Australian women, as the name is now out of style
• Kath/Kim
• Kylie
  • Popularized by singer Kylie Minogue. Considered out of style in Australia.
• Tegan
• Narelle
• Sharon ("Shazza")
• Sheila
  • Sheila The Kangaroo from Spyro: Year of the Dragon.
  • Australian slang for a woman.

Last names

• Cook/Cooke
  • Captain James Cook was an Englishman who proposed the idea of making Australia a British colony.
• Mackenzie

Belgian

General

• All Belgian names will be given the diminutive "-ke" ("little one"). Thus "Jef" becomes "Jefke" ("little Jef").
  • Hergé's comical duo of two Brussels street urchins: Quick and Flupke ("little Philip").
• Most of the time, the names will sound French, despite the fact that Belgium also has a large Dutch-speaking population. On the other hand, many Francophone Belgians have Dutch (Flemish) surnames.

Masculine Names

• Baptist^note After St. John the Baptist
• Charel^note 'Carl/Charles'
• Flup^note Short for Philip
• Gust^note Short for Gustaaf ('Gustav') or Augustus
• Jef^note Short for Jozef
• Lowie^note Diminutive for Lodewijk ('Ludwig')
• Pol^note 'Paul'
• Suske^note Flemish diminutive of François/Franciscus
  • As in Suske en Wiske.

Feminine Names

• Marieke^note Diminutive for Maria/Marie
  • As in Jacques Brel's famous song.
• Wiske^note Flemish diminutive of Louisa/Louise
  • As in Suske en Wiske.

Others

• The Belgian in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was named "Rémy", a possible reference to Hergé's real name Georges Remi. (Steven Spielberg is a Tintin lover.)

Bosnian

Masculine Names

• Adnan^note "Settler", also the name of an ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad and the northern Arabian tribes
• Amar^note "Long-lived", a cognate form of the Arabic name 'Ammar'
• Haris^note "Plowman/Cultivator", a cognate form of 'Harith'
• Mehmed^note A cognate form of 'Muhammad'
• Mustafa^note "The Chosen One", after an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad
• Sulejman^note 'Solomon'
• Zlatan^note "Golden"

Feminine Names

• Ajla^note "Moonlight/Halo", a cognate form of the Turkish name 'Ayla'
• Alma
• Amila^note "Valuable"
  • Actually a masculine name in its original Sinhalese.
• Lejla^note "Night", a cognate form of 'Layla'
• Nejra
• Selma^note "Safe", a cognate form of the Arabic name 'Salma'

Family Names

• Any name ending in the standard Slavic -ić, which is a possessive roughly meaning "descendant/member of", often equated with the English "-son". Mostly combined with a name and/or profession, such as:
  • Agić, derived from "Aga" (a generic Ottoman term for "lord" or "master").
  • Imamović, derived from "Imam" (an Islamic leadership position, comparable to a priest).
  • Sometimes, this is bought to (even more) tongue-twisting levels, for instance: Hadzihafizbegovič, which can verbosely be translated as "Descendant of the Muslim governor who memorized The Qur'an and did the pilgrimage to Mecca". Hilarious if you have an atheist friend with that name.
• Surnames that don't fall under the above rule are usually just professions or titles without the possessive:
  • Kovač^note "Smith". Probably the most generic Slavic surname there is.
  • Puškar^note "Gunsmith"
• Even rarer are names that don't have anything to do with professions, titles, given names or possessives. Also, they tend to be somewhat bizarre:
  • Burina^note "Big Storm"
  • Guzina^note "Big-ass"
  • Hot
  • Uzbrdica^note "Uphill"
    • Leading to the hilarious and veritably real name Nagib Uzbrdica, which means "Steep Uphill".

Canadian

General

• Will be French sounding names, representing the large minority of Francophones in Canada (nearly 25% of the population).
• Nicknames and derivatives are extremely popular in Canada, especially among men. If any given name has a popular nickname associated with it, Canadians will refer to a person with that name by the nickname, by default.

Masculine Names

• In terms of Anglophonic names, Logan is especially popular for males.
  • Wolverine, of X-Men fame, a native Canadian, probably popularized this.
• Unpretentious Scottish names tend to be popular, especially among older Canadians, including: Douglas, usually rendered as "Doug" or "Dougie"; and Robert, or "Bob" or "Bobby".
  • Bob and Doug MacKenzie are a great example of this.
  • Many great hockey players are Dougies and Bobbys: Bobby Orr, Bobby Hull, Doug Harvey, Doug Wilson...
• Dudley
  • Dudley DoRight from Rocky and Bullwinkle
  • Sir Dudley DingDong from the Teletoon (a Canadian TV channel), Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong
• Justin
  • Justin Bieber, Canadian singer.
  • Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada.
  • Justin Williams, Canadian professional ice hockey right-winger.

Chinese/Taiwanese/Hongkongese

As a general note, unlike English, Chinese does not have "fixed" names like "Peter" or "Mary". Instead, given names usually consist of one or two Chinese characters (syllables)^note one-word names are usually more common in mainland China while two-word names are more common in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Singapore, but they can be any characters out of thousands as long as the parents like them; many different Chinese names can also become conflated together into one pinyin due to the latter's limitations. Take "Meiling" for example, a stereotypical feminine name. In Mandarin, Mei is most commonly 美 ("beautiful"), but it can also be 梅 ("plum"), 媚 ("charm"), 玫 ("red jade" or the first half of "rose"), and more; Ling can be 靈/灵 ("spirit"), 玲 ("tinkling [of jade]"), 鈴/铃 ("bell"), 羚 ("antelope"), 菱 ("water caltrop"), 齡/龄 ("age"), etc. Moreover, names can be romanized in the same way across multiple different topolects (most famously Mandarin and Cantonese, but also others like Xiang, Southern Min/Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, etc.), so what seems to be the same name in English can refer to many different combinations in Chinese.

Masculine names

• Long, most commonly 龍/龙 ("dragon") in Mandarin
  • In Hetalia: Axis Powers, one of Hong Kong's possible "human names" by Word of God is Wong Ka Lung (王嘉龍, romanized in Cantonese).
• Wing
  • See the Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator example quoted below.
  • Wing is the romanization of at least three separated characters pronounced similarly in Cantonese (永, 榮/荣 and 穎/颖), which mean 'eternal', 'glory', and 'clever' respectively. While 'eternal' and 'glory' is mainly for males, 'clever' is gender-neutral.^note It is genuinely common, almost generic, in Hong Kong. There is a popular Wuxia Spy Fiction Urban Fantasy book series in Hong Kong with a protagonist only known as 阿Wing (Ah Wing), who is named after the author's old boss' nickname. It is also the nickname of the wife of a famous pop star (黎明).

Feminine names

• Mai-Lee
• Mei-ling (or Meiling)
  • Both Mei and Ling can be used as independent names as well.
  • Mei Lin, Binky's adopted Chinese sister on Arthur.
  • Meiling Li from Cardcaptor Sakura.
  • In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Taiwan's possible "human names" by Word of God are Lin Yi-ling (林乙玲) or Hsiao-mei/Xiao-mei (曉梅). The latter doubles as a Meaningful Name in this case, as the plum blossom (梅花) is Taiwan's national flower.
  • Mei from Overwatch, whose full name is Zhou Meiling (周美靈/周美灵) in Chinese ordering.
  • Meiling Hong from Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.
  • Meiling, a frienemy to the human lead of Stitch & Ai.
  • Meilin "Mei" Lee, the protagonist of Turning Red.
  • Hitman: Contracts renames Lei-Ling from the previous two games to Mei-Ling. This can probably be attributed to 47’s misremembering the details of the missions from the first game, as the framing device of the game is his flashbacks while recoving from a bullet wound.
  • To be fair, Mei-ling (美玲, "beautiful tinkling of jade") genuinely was the second-most common girls' name in Taiwan in The '60s.
  • Even in Chinese-speaking regions themselves, 小美 ("little Mei")^*'Xiǎoměi' in pinyin Mandarin and 'Siu-mei' in Cantonese and 小玲 ("little Ling")^*'Xiǎolíng' in pinyin Mandarin and 'Siu-ling' in Cantonese are commonly used as feminine placeholder names—with both using a diminutive prefix.
• Ran, at least in anime, where it is a stock name for an Anime Chinese Girl.
  • In Mandarin, Ran is actually more likely to be a masculine name than a feminine name. Due to Japanese Ranguage, it is much more likely that every time a girl Ran appears in anime, her Chinese given name is Lan, which is usually rendered as "orchid" (蘭/兰) due to having the same transliteration in Mandarin and Cantonese. In Mandarin, the name can also be "mist in the mountains" (嵐/岚), "blue" (藍/蓝), or other words with similar pronunciations.^note Those two words are transliterated as làahm and romanized as "Lam" in Cantonese.
  • Ran Hanamichi (Cure Yum-Yum) from Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure. In the Chinese dubs, her name is given as "orchid" (蘭/兰).
• Soo-Lin
• In Western media, basically any name that is pronounceable and sounds feminine and pretty to a Western ear. Unfortunately, this may fall into As Long as It Sounds Foreign, to the annoyance (if not ire) of Chinese-speakers.

Family names

• Chan^*usually 陳/陈 in Cantonese, or more rarely, 曾 in Macau Cantonese, 詹 in Wade-Giles Mandarin, or others
  • Its use is justified as it's the most common surname in Taiwan (Romanized as Chen or Tan^*the Romanization in Hokkien), southern China (including Hong Kong and Macau), and Singapore, and fifth-most common in the Mainland overall in 2018.
  • Jackie Chan.
• Chang^*張/张 or 章 in Wade-Giles Mandarin, 昌 or 常 in both pinyin and Wade-Giles Mandarin, 鄭/郑 in other topolects spoken in Malaysia, etc.
  • Sid Chang from The Casagrandes.
  • "A Chang is hearty to the core. We always come out healthy, that's why there's like a billion of us. You ever tried Googling me? Can't be done." — Ben Chang, Community
    • Funny enough trying to Google him and you will get a confused search of Ben Chang the character with Ben Chang the American diplomat.
  • Cho Chang from Harry Potter. Despite often being held up as a example of such due to the alliteration of the name making it dangerously look like a bit of a slur, Cho Chang is actually an aversion, or at the very least Accidentally-Correct Writing. The name is rendered in the more archaic Wade-Giles romanization system (more commonly used by the "old-stock" Chinese diaspora in the UK). Cho Chang converts to "Zhuo Zhang" in modern Pinyin. Zhuo (倬) and other words with similar pronunciations can be fairly common unisex given names in Chinese. The Chinese translations of the novels uses Zhāng Qiū. (Note that "qiū" is also pronounced similarly to "Cho".)
  • The Chang triplets of The Proud Family — also a bit victim to Values Dissonance (only one of them even had a first name revealed), but the revival has somewhat tamped that down.
  • Michelle and Julia Chang from Tekken.
• Chao^*趙 in Wade-Giles Mandarin, or more rarely, 周 in Macau Cantonese, or other rarer surnames
  • Chao Lingshen of Mahou Sensei Negima!, a wildly stereotypical Anime Chinese Girl (and time-traveler who may or may not actually be Martian.
• Lee (or Li)^*most commonly 李 in many topolects (Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, etc.), or more unusually, 呂 in Hokkien or Wu, 黎 in Mandarin, Teochew or Wu, or other rarer surnames
  • The granddaddy of them all, at least in Western media, is of course Bruce Lee — specifically, his identically-named hero in Enter the Dragon.
  • Syaoran Li from Cardcaptor Sakura is from Hong Kong.
  • Rock Lee and Metal Lee from Naruto.
  • Chun-Li from Street Fighter. Rendered as part of the given name in Chinese translation, which is written as the character for 'beautiful' (麗/丽, not the same character as 'Mei').
  • Meilin "Mei" Lee, the protagonist of Turning Red, as well as the rest of her family.
  • The common use of Li is justified as it is the second most common surname in China as of 2018. It is said that the reason of it being so common is that the emperors of the Tang dynasty often gave out their surname, Li, as a reward.
  • Its ubiquity got a Lampshade Hanging in Avatar: The Last Airbender where Piandao suggests to Sokka that "Lee" would be a good fake name because "there are a million Lees".
• Long^*usually 龍/龙 in Mandarin pinyin and Macau Cantonese
  • It is in fact much less common in Real Life, compared either to its first name counterpart or other family names listed here.
• Ng^*吳 or 伍 in Cantonese, or 黃 in Hokkien or Teochew, but the latter is much less well-known
  • Ana Ng.
  • Billie Ng, a minor character in The Trials of Apollo.
• Wong (particularly common in Anime when a character is from Hong Kong)^*王 in both Cantonese and Hokkien, or either 黃 or 汪 in just Cantonese
  • "It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President. The country's so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you Wing you get the Wong number." — Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
  • Wong Yun-Fat, Prime Minister of Neo Hong Kong, from Mobile Fighter G Gundam. It should also be noted that his given name comes from Chow Yun-fat.
  • Wong, Doctor Strange's Inscrutable Oriental manservant. Has notably stayed Only One Name from his debut in The '60s all the way to today.
  • The Wongs are a Hong Kong-based triad in Rosario + Vampire, later established as one of the three main powers of the monster world. Note the the official Viz translation romanizes their name as as the Mandarin Huang.
  • Wong is in fact the romanization of two separated yet common surnames pronounced the same in Cantonese (黃 and 王)^*and more which are pronounced similarly but with a different tone, which explains the association of this surname with Hong Kong. However in Pinyin, neither of the surnames is Romanized into Wong, so China is never full of Wongs, instead, it is full of...
• Wang^*王 or 汪 in Mandarin (黃 would be Huang), or more rarely, 袁 in Teochew
  • The most common version (#1 most common surname in Mainland China in 2018), 王, means "king" (and is pronounced like "warng" with a non-rhotic accent, or "wahng"). Of course, since that certain body part is also called "crown jewels" by English-speakers...
  • Chon Wang, Jackie Chan's character in Shanghai Noon and its sequel.
  • Wang Ai Ling from Stitch & Ai (the last word also being the common Ling).
  • In Hetalia: Axis Powers, China's "human surname" is Wang (as in the "king" one).
• Yao^*姚 in Mandarin

Colombian

General

• Anything that sounds vaguely Spanish and Middle-Eastern is fair game. There is one caveat, though; there are lots of names. This is because of the tradition of at least one middle name, then taking your father's, mother's and grandparent's surnames for some purposes, of which each relative has both their father's first surname and their mother's first surname.
• For a reference on how Colombian names work in real life, see the UsefulNotes.Spanish Naming Conventions page.

Masculine Names

• Juan^note 'John'
  • Anything double-barreled beginning with Juan, e.g. Juan Carlos, Juan Camilo, Juan Manuel, Juan Antonio, Juan Diego, Juan Pablo.
• Equivalents of English names
  • Alejandro^note 'Alexander'
  • Cristofol
  • David
  • Eduardo^note 'Edward'
  • Jaime^note 'James'
  • José^note 'Joseph'
  • Mateo^note 'Matthew'
  • Ricardo^note 'Richard'
• Santiago, Milan and other non-Colombian Spanish cities.
• Religious names, as they're all Catholic
  • Ángel
  • Cristian^note 'Christian'
  • Moises/Moses
• Javier^note "The new house", a cognate form of 'Xavier', after the Jesuit priest St. Francis Xavier
• Jairo^note 'Jairus', also the name of the father of the young girl brought back to life by Jesus

Feminine Names

• The feminine form of the masculine names
  • Alejandra^note 'Alexandra'
  • Andrea
  • Cristina^note 'Christina'
  • Luisa^note 'Louisa/Louise'
    • Luisa Madrigal from Encanto
  • Manuela^note "God is with us", feminine form of 'Manuel', from 'Emmanuel'
  • Milana
  • Johana^note 'Joanna'
• Some inexplicable Russian names
  • Natalia^note 'Natalie'
  • Tatiana
  • Valentina
  • Yolanda^note "Violet flower"
• Anything with Maria or Ana as the first part of a double-barreled name, e.g. Maria Fernanda, Ana Maria, Ana Sofia, Maria Silvia, Maria Paula, Maria Carolina.
• Catalina^note 'Katherine'
• Isabel
  • Isabela Madrigal from Encanto

Last names

• Anything with an elyeh (ll), doble erre (rr), or that ends with 'ez'.^note The latter is the Spanish equivalent to "-son".
• For women, it is not uncommon to affix her husband's first surname to the end of her own simply with 'de' in front e.g. Rubio Herrera de Días.
• Surnames of Spanish origin:
  • Álvarez^note "Son of Álvaro"
  • Castro^note "Castle"
  • Díaz^note "Son of Diego"
  • Herrera^note "Iron", a cognate of the Galician and Portuguese 'Ferreira'
  • Jaramillo
  • Martínez^note "Son of Martín"
  • Montoya
    • Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramírez of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
  • Moreno^note "Dark"
  • Restrepo
  • Santo/a -something- (Saint -something-)
  • Valencia^note From the Spanish city 'Valencia'
  • Velasquez^note Possibly "crow", from the medieval Spanish name 'Velasco'
  • Zapata^note "Shoemaker", or "from Zapata"
• Many popular surnames are from immigrants to Atlántico (Barranquilla, etc.), many originate from the Middle East or are Romani but have become widely accepted as Latino:
  • Aristizabal—unknown immigrant origin
  • Arroyo/Arrollo
  • Baena
  • Becerra/Bacca
  • Bordo/Borda
  • Caballero^note "Knight", a cognate of 'Chevalier'
  • Carbonell/Carbo
  • Carmargo
  • Correa^note "Belt/Leather strap", a cognate of 'Correia'
  • Guberek
  • Juliao
  • Karpat
  • Mattar
  • Mebarak/Mubarak
    • Shakira Mebarak Ripoll, using two of the top ten in Barranquilla.
  • Meluk
  • Mendes^note "Son of Menendo"
    • Made more stereotypical as its cognate 'Mendez'
  • Moyano
  • Nasser
  • Pellet
  • Renteria
  • Ripoll — Catalan, not Arabic, but popular because of all the Spanish immigrants.
  • Rubio^note "Red"
  • Salas
  • Vergara
    • Sofía Vergara Vergara, both being Vergara, also in the top ten in Barranquilla.

Danish

Masculine names

• Frederik^note 'Frederick'
• Hans^note 'John', via the Latin form 'Johannes'
  • Prince Hans from Frozen is from the Southern Isles, which is implied to be a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to Denmark.
• Jens^note 'John'
• Lars^note 'Lawrence'
  • Or Lars Ulrich from Metallica.
• Niels^note 'Nicholas'
• Peter
• Søren^note 'Severinus'
  • Or Soren for writers not familiar with the Danish letter Ø.
• Troels^note "Thor's arrow-shaft"

Feminine names

• Anne/Anna/Hanne
• Kirsten^note 'Christina'
• Inge^note From the ancient Germanic fertility god Ing
• Mette^note Diminutive form of 'Margaret' in Danish
• Nanna^note From the Norse goddess of the same name
• Rie^note Short form of 'Maria/Marie'
• Women from the Danish colonies (Greenland and the former Danish West Indies, now the U.S. Virgin Islands) will often have slightly old-fashioned, regal-sounding names like Juliane, Caroline, and Charlotte Amalie. In the case of the Virgin Islands, it's because ships often had the names of Danish queens or princesses, and slaves were frequently named after the ship they arrived in. As for Greenland, it's simply because Inuit women arriving in Denmark were likely to adopt the names of famous Danish women.

Surnames

• Anything ending in '-sen', which is a cognate of the English '-son'.
• Christensen^note "Son of Christen"
• Hansen^note "Son of Hans", a cognate of 'Johnson'
• Jensen^note "Son of Jens", a cognate of 'Johnson'
  • Justified as Jensen is the most common surname in Denmark.
• Rasmussen
  • Former prime ministers Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.

Dutch/Afrikaans

Masculine names

• Dutch names in general are often very unfamiliar to other Europeans (and those in the wider Anglosphere) and look more like quirky sound effects in some instances—witness Jaap, Miep (pronounced "meep") and Pim, for example.
• Hans^note 'John', via the Latin form 'Johannes'
• Henk^note Short form of 'Hendrik', which is a cognate of 'Henry'
• Jaap^note Short form of 'Jacob'
• Jan/Johan^note 'John'
• Karel^note 'Carl/Charles'
• Kees^note Diminutive of 'Cornelis', which is a cognate of 'Cornelius'
• Maarten^note 'Martin'
• Pim^note Diminutive of 'Willem', which is a cognate of 'William'
• Sjaak^note 'Jacques' or 'Isaac'
• Tim
• Willem/Wim^note 'William'
• Stereotypical Afrikaans male names include: Piet/Peet, Vikus, Koobus, Francois.

Feminine names

• Many are highly distinct and do not have direct counterparts in other European countries.
• Anneke/Annie/Annika
  • Annika from Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus.
• Beatrix
• Britt^note Diminutive of cognates of 'Bridget'
• Doutzen
  • The model Doutzen Kroes
• Famke
• Katja^note 'Kate'
• Mies^note Diminutive of 'Maria'
• Marieke^note Diminutive of 'Maria'
• Tina
• Stereotypical Afrikaans female names differ from those of Dutch women and often follow Francophone forms: Charlene/Charlize, Chrizanne/Cezanne, Estelle, Jozette, Suzette, Tania, Vivette, etc.

Last names

• A lot of Dutch/Afrikaner surnames are prefixed with van or van der. If the digraph "-aa-" can be squeezed in somewhere in the name, that's even better.
• De Something (De Vries, De Jong etc.)
• And for the hat trick, van de something.
  • Mynheer Vanderdendur from Candide.
  • From Titanic: American socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater has a last name that reveals her Dutch Heritage.
• Jansen^note "Son of Jan", a cognate of 'Johnson'
  • Its use as a Stock Name is justified as it's the second most common Dutch surname.
  • Jansen and Janssen, the Dutch and Flemish version of Thompson and Thomson.

English

Masculine names

• Alfred: One of the ancient home-grown English names still in common use^note as opposed to Biblical names—John, Simon, Matthew, etc., and classically-derived names—Philip, Alexander, George, etc., which are much more commonly encountered in modern Britain) — it means "elf council". The diminutive 'Alfie' is extremely popular, always hovering in the top ten boys' names for new babies in England.
  • Undoubtedly derived from much celebrated monarch Alfred the Great.
  • Batman's gentleman butler is the very English Alfred Pennyworth.
  • As it's a name that appears at the top and bottom of England's social scale, there's also cheeky-chappy cockney Alfie Moon from the long-running soap EastEnders.
  • A twist: America from Hetalia: Axis Powers has this as a "human name", but it's justified in that he was raised by England.
  • The psychotic aristocrat Lord Alfred Ashford, one the Resident Evil series' leading villains.
• Arthur
  • Legendary monarch King Arthur. Though Brythonic in origin, his legend has been reassigned to the English since at least Le Morte d'Arthur.
  • Hetalia: Axis Powers: England's "human name" is Arthur.
• Charles
  • King Charles
  • One of England's most celebrated authors, Charles Dickens.
  • Charles Widmore, an Evil Brit leader of 'The Others' from Lost.
• Clive
  • Clive from Frasier.
    Frasier: Daphne, a Clive called for you.
    Daphne: Clive? Did he sound British?
    Frasier: No, he was one of those fiery Mexican Clives!
  • Clive Dove from Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.
• Edmund: Another ancient English name still in common use, as per Alfred above.
  • Anti-Hero of the Blackadder comedy series.
  • The duplicitous, but later redeemed younger brother in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
• Edward: Still another ancient English name still in common use, much like Alfred and Edmund. Indeed, it’s still in use by the royal family—the only such name they still use, in fact.
• George
  • Various kings and princes throughout English history.
• Giles/Miles
• Graham: Pronounced "Gray-um", NOT "Gram", as in the US.
• Henry/Harry
  • Prince Harry and historical kings I to VIII.
  • Prince Harry from the first Black Adder series.
  • Harry Potter, probably the best known 'Harry', who combines a first and last name that are both quintessentially English 'nice-boy' in vibe.
  • Henry Hatsworth, protagonist of Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, combines stock first and last names in his capacity as a stereotype of an English gentleman.
• Humphrey
• Jeremy
• John
  • John Bull the traditional Anthropomorphic Personification of England.
  • 'John Smith'—the most common name in England.
• Keith: A British Rockstar name, as per the four rock-gods below, despite the name's distinctly un-rock n' roll vibe.
  • Keith Emerson
  • Keith Flint
  • Keith Moon
  • Keith Richards
• Montgomery
• Nigel: Very often used for English males appearing in American works:
  • Nigel Jenkins from Disney's Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, who combines both a stereotypically English first name and surname and was played by (somewhat surprisingly) the perennially plummy Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey.
  • Nigel Gearsley, the smooth-talking Aston Martin and UK rep from Cars 2.
  • Nigel Moon, one of the many brothers of the character Daphne Moon from Frasier.
  • Nigel Wolpert from the Harry Potter films.
  • 1992 Formula One and 1993 IndyCar Champ Nigel Mansell.
  • Three separate English characters named Nigel appear in The Simpsons throughout its run.
  • Nigel Tufnel from This is Spın̈al Tap.
  • Sir Nigel Thornberry from The Wild Thornberrys
  • Nigel Uno, aka Numbuh One of Codename: Kids Next Door (whose premise can basically be summed up as: what if Patrick Stewart was James Bond and also a ten-year-old?)
• Oliver: Truth in Television, it's among the most popular names for English males.
  • Oliver Twist: If not a codifier, then definitely a popularizer.
• Reginald: Another name that's both respectable, even upper-class sounding ('Reginald') and cheeky-chappy via the diminutive 'Reggie'.
  • 70s sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, chronicling an English middle-class everyman's (humourous) mid-life crisis.
  • Minor character Reginald "Reg" Cattermole from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
  • Notorious London Gangster Reggie Kray.
  • Reginald Jeeves of Jeeves and Wooster fame — the original Jeeves.
• Robin
  • A stock folklore name, most famously (but by no means limited to) Robin Hood.
• Rupert
  • Rupert Giles of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame, who manages to incorporate two typically English names.
  • Stuffed teddy bear owned by Evil Brit baby Stewie Griffin.
  • Rupert Grint.
  • Titular hero of the venerable English comic strip Rupert Bear.
  • Rupert T. Waxflatter, the mentor of the future detective Sherlock Holmes, created for the 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes.
• Simon
  • The Trope Codifier of Caustic Critic, Simon Cowell.
  • The Saint is the nickname of Simon Templar.
• Winston
  • Winston Churchill, of course.
  • Also the hero of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was likely not a coincidence on George Orwell's part.
  • The name is often associated with Afro-Caribbean British characters, including Winston from EastEnders.
• For super-sloaney (incredibly posh) English male names, try Algernon/Algie, Crispin, Cuthbert, Rafferty, Rollo, Sefton, Sheridan, Tarquin or Torquil.
  • Tarquin the Fairy from Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom.
  • Cuthbert Binns, the ghostly History of Magic professor from Harry Potter.
• Cornish names represent a distinctive sub-set of English names: Casvelyn, Denzel and Tristan are good male examples.

Feminine names

• Alice (stock name for a smart, heroic English girl)
  • The eponymous heroine from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
  • The titular hero's brave, true-hearted Love Interest, Alice Fitzwarren, from perennial Pantomime classic, Dick Whittington and His Cat
  • Alice Ford of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
• Anne
  • A prominent royal name; Princess Anne, Queen Anne, Anne Boleyn.
  • William Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway.
• Camilla: Some divergent examples:
  • Camilla, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom
  • Camilla "Chummy" Fortescue Cholmondeley-Browne from Call the Midwife.
  • Bombshell MI-6 agent Cammy White of Street Fighter fame.
• Charlotte
  • Charlotte Brontë, 1/3 of the Bronte Sisters.
• Elizabeth
  • Most famously former Queen Elizabeth II, her mother, and her ancestor Elizabeth I.
  • Elizabeth Swann of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
  • Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bennet, heroine of the seminal Pride and Prejudice.
  • Dr Elizabeth Shaw, the main character in Ridley Scott's Prometheus.
• Emma/Emily
  • Emily Waltham, Ross Geller's short-term English fiancee from Friends.
  • Emma Watson.
• Evelyn/Evie/Evy
  • The first playable female assassin in Assassin's Creed Syndicate is Londoner, Evie Frye.
  • Heroine of 1920s-era BBC drama The House of Eliott.
  • Heroine of The Mummy Trilogy.
• Felicity
• Hermione
  • Hermione Makepeace (AKA Minnie the Minx) from venerable British comic, The Beano.
  • Most prominently with Hermione Granger, heroine of Harry Potter.
  • The marvellously named Hermione Trumpington-Bonnet, a character in the TV series Monarch of the Glen.
• Jane
  • Jane Seymour (Royalty).
• Jessica
• Kate (and the full name Catherine)
  • Catherine, Princess of Wales
  • Three of Henry VIII's wives were named some form of the name—Catherine of Aragon (originally named Catalina as she's from what we now call Spain), Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.
  • Supermodel Kate Moss.
  • Oft noted English Rose, Kate Winslet.
• Margaret
  • Britain's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
  • The original Rebellious Princess, Princess Margaret.
• Mary
  • Lady Mary Crawley of the mega-hit Downton Abbey.
  • Practically perfect Magical Nanny, Mary Poppins.
  • Mary Lennox.
• Olivia
• Penelope/Penny
  • Penelope Clearwater from Harry Potter.
• Rose
  • English Rose: The national flower and traditionally the ideal standard of beauty and character in a young English woman.
  • Variations include Rosie, Rosemary, Rosalind and Rosamund.
  • The Gender Flip version of England (in a canonical AU) in Hetalia: Axis Powers is given the "human name" of Rose (or Rosa, as initially suggested by Himaruya, the creator of the series), though she is also referred to as "Alice" or other, oft-stereotypical English names.
• Sophie
• Sybil: Multiple examples include:
  • The beautiful youngest sister from Downton Abbey.
  • The irascible Sybil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers.
  • Professor Trelawney of Harry Potter.
• Victoria
  • One of the nation's most famous monarchs, Queen Victoria.
  • Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham of 90s supergroup, Spice Girls.
  • The aptly named Victoria Waterfield, a young Victorian girl who was one of The Doctor's 60s-era companions.
• For super-sloaney (incredibly posh) English female names, try: Arabella, Araminta, Binky, Jemima, Pandora, Petronella, Cressida and yes, Cordelia.
  • You'd have to had gone to a really good school to pull off "Binky".
  • Arabella Figg from Harry Potter.
• Cornish names represent a distinctive sub-set of English names, often incorporating the rarely-seen letter 'z': Demelza, Karenza and Tamzin are classic female examples.

Last names

• Certain surname structures are unmistakably English-sounding:
  • Anything with "-kins" (literally "family") at the end — Atkins (little 'Tommy Atkins', the nickname of the typically brave, humble English soldier during both World Wars) or Jenkins ("Jenkins, chap with the wings there, five rounds rapid") are perfect examples.
  • Anything with "-worth" ("estate") at the end—Ashworth, Blidworth, Harmsworth, Pennyworth etc.
  • Anything with "-hurst" ("wood/thicket") at the end—Bathurst, Hazelhurst, etc.
• Brown
  • Father Brown
• Fletcher
• Green
• Kensington (stereotypically posh)
  • Other place-names also sound posh; Hastings, Buckingham, Oxford, Crawley, Grantham.
• Jackson
• Johnson
• Smith
  • 'John Smith', the most commonly occurring name in the Anglosphere.
• Thompson
  • Thompson and Thomson, English names of Dupont and Dupond.
  • Recurring Tintin villain Allan has the surname Thompson in the original French.
• Walker
• White
  • Cammy White of Street Fighter fame.
• Wood(s)
  • Oliver Wood from Harry Potter.
• Wright
  • All of the above are amongst the most common surnames in England.
• Cholmondeley ('Chum-ly')
• Two surnames hyphenated, or just two surnames, (double-barreled)^note Not all double-barreled surnames are hyphenated, e.g. Jessica Brown Findlay and Sacha Baron Cohen, which is stereotypically upper-class, as are certain spelling idiosyncrasies, e.g. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born.^note The first surname is Welsh, clearly indicated by the double 'f', which is found in no other language.
  • Wesley Wyndham-Price.
  • Brigadier Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.
  • Marjory Stewart-Baxter and Barbara Logan-Price from Salad Fingers.
  • Jacobi Richard Penn Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe provides a rather lovely real life example of a triple-barelled English surname.
  • TV Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, just beating out Heston Blumenthal to have the most pretentious name in the business.
  • Many come from people incorporating annoying middle names into their surname. These middle names did sound like surnames, though, as they were often the person's mother's maiden name. (Jessica Brown Findlay's grandfather's middle name was Brown, his mother's maiden name.) Thus, many Brits have both parents' surname, whether through this method or by being given both at birth, similar to in Spanish naming conventions but with the mother's name usually being put first.
• Ramsbottom/Postlethwaite/Braithwaite/Higginbottom; all traditionally Northern English.
  • According to supplementary material for Harry Potter, Sybill Trelawney's brief marriage ended because she refused to take her husband's surname of 'Higgenbottom'.
  • Pete Postlethwaite and family — Pete being an exception to the masculine names rule above, always insisting on Pete and not Peter.
• As the saying goes: "By 'Tre-', 'Pol-' and 'Pen-' thou shalt know the Cornishmen."
  • Squire Trelawney from Treasure Island.
  • Poldark.
  • Susan Penhaligon, a British actress.

Estonian

Masculine names

• Eduard^note 'Edward'
  • Estonia from Hetalia: Axis Powers has the "human name" of Eduard von Bock.
• Kaspar/Kasper^note 'Jasper'
• Tarmo^note "Vigour/Energy/Drive"

Feminine names

• Anna
• Helena
• Lagle^note "Goose"
• Leena^note Short form for 'Helena'
• Piret^note 'Bridget'

Last names

• Anything ending in '-sepp', e.g. Raudsepp