Anyone want to help me name a secondary character? Normally this isn't a problem for me, but she's stubbornly nameless.
Her bio and description: She's a Lowland Scot of good family (gentry or minor nobility), born around 1770 (she's in her 30's when we meet her). She's intelligent and wryly witty, and better educated than the average woman of her time. Extremely proper and reserved in public, reveals earthy sensuality in bed with my protagonist--one of her roles in the story is as his confidante/fuckbuddy, though I don't think they're each other's One True Love. She's taller than average, pretty but not beautiful, yellow blonde hair and brown eyes.
Names she CAN'T have to avoid duplication: Charlotte, Anna, Genevieve, Lavinia, Emma, Catherine. She'll share a lot of screen time with the first three, so it can't even be close to one of those.
Any ideas? I'm only worried about her first name for now--if I can just pin that down, it's easy enough to pick out a last name that matches and works with her background.
Julia? Marianne? Belle? Clara?
Elizabeth, Margeret, Elinor, Helen.
Susan, Rose, Gwendolyn,Gail, Lynda,Loretta, Heather,Maira, Moira,
Anice or Annabella,Cora
Ah just though of an easier answer.
A quick google gives an a site for scottish baby names. One of them will have to work. Not that the Scots did not borrow names from the English, and Irish and French if it came to that.
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I like Heather (for obvious reasons)
I think Heather is too modern.
Are there more Scots names that would be appropriate?
Well since I only put in the link on my third edit I'll repeat it here-subsite for scottish baby name (note ads on this site are pretty obviously trying to plant spyware):
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Thanks for the help! I think she's going to be Margaret. It suits her, and my protagonist, who's taken up residence in a corner of my brain and made himself at home since I started this manuscript, is nodding sagely and agreeing that's her name.
(Heather is lovely, but I don't think it was in use in the 18th century.)
I like Margaret - plus there are like a million nicknames people could call her if they were close.
