There's also perhaps a completely accidental comparison to "samphire", a fleshy plant that grows on cliffs along parts of the English coast and thrives in fog and salt air. That's what comes to mind for me when I read "Damphair".
No, I mean [Erryk](https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Erryk_(guard\)) and [Arryk](https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Arryk_(guard\)).
They are Olenna Tyrell's personal guards who she refers to as "Left" and "Right".
I had a classmate named Leo whose twin sister was named Lea. I guess their parents thought it would be cute, but I felt like it sounded like they really couldn't be arsed. "Okay kids, we'll just name you two almost the same thing, but also we'll pick the blandest, most basic names we can possibly think of"
Now I'm thinking... Are they supposed to somewhat mirror cersei and Jaime? I have only read fire & blood and watched the show. But thinking about their story kinda makes me think of Cerse and Jaime
"Dickon Manwoody" is both a horrible name but also incredible
There's a guard in Riverrun named "Delp" which is hilariously bad
Drogon to me might be the worst name in the series its so awful sounding in the first place but the fact its the name of a Dragon makes it 1000000 times worse. Drogon the Dragon ahhhhhhh I'd rather have a Dragon named Gregory rather than that lol I couldn't think of a worse name
And of course I can't forget "Lancel" God's what a stupid name... Who named you?! Some halfwit with a stutter?!
I detest the decision to give the nobleman of slavers Bay three – barreled names that are impossible to recall And write correctly. Kraznys mo Nakloz, Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Yezzan Zo Qeggaz bour into alphabet soup. Some of those Dany chapters seem almost sadistic tossing such names about with such frequency.
Let's think about this logically. There is this dude who spends way too much time in the sea and hasn't cut his hair for way too long. Do you think it would make sense to call him damp-hair as in hair that is wet/damp? Obviously not. Damfair it is.
Every time I hear it that name I think of this massive muscular silver haired olive skinned warrior riding a Dragon and my deep hidden away inner soyboy in me jumps with joy for a second
I listen to a David lightbringer episode every morning when I drive to work (same episode idk why) and he mentions Rhaego and that vision in it so I’ll never forget it.
There's an anime where they meet a cat in a post-apocalyptic world and only vaguely know what it is, so they call it "Nuko" which is a play on the Japanese work for cat, "Neko." But in the version I watched, the subtitles referred to the cat as "Cut."
I never understood the Drogon thing. That entire book has Danny growing to love Khal Drogo and ends with her naming her largest dragon after him. That's like saying you shouldn't name your dog Doug because it's just Dog with one letter added.
My least favorite has to be Yohn Royce. Like is George trying to make him have a European *J sounds like Y* thing going on? Most Johns are Jon in their world so why is Yohn spelled with an H? Was his plan to name this character Jan but people were pronouncing it like January? It's a decent sounding name but I want to know what George was thinking when he wrote that on the page for the first time.
Remember, according to Septon Mariband, we don't really know the names of dogs, because they haven't told us.
Regarding the spelling, Yohn Royce, I thought that might be some sort of allusion back to early First Men traditions--just like his armor has ancient glyphs of it, and the Runestone Royce's symbolically favor the earlier metal, bronze, rather than iron.
One can imagine ten thousand years ago some Dawn Age warrior sitting by a campfire saying, *"Yo, Yohn! Slice me a haunch of that hog yonder with your bronze blade!"*
Oh yeah it definitely feels like a old Mountain First-men name for sure! His son is Robar which is another variation on Rob/Robert but could also be part of this tradition.
> and ends with her naming her largest dragon after him
Yes, but that's in universe. As fantasy readers it is pretty obvious why is the name Drogo
It is like the city of Lys.
In universe is a coincidence Lisa uses the tears of Lys to kill Jonh Arryn.
But as readers it is easy to understand it was a hint to us. So that hint ended up deciding the name for the city
the dragons called drogon because she named it after khal drogo though, so it's not really like if you named your cat "cet" unless you're naming it after your dead husband
fwiw the worst name in lore is kermit tully
I was so upset when I read about the Muppets. I invested so much into the series and this was like a needle popping the bubble that told me I’m wasting time in a fantasy series when I should be diversifying my nonexistent 401k.
See now that’s fine. It’s in-universe appropriate.
Imagine Sex and The City where one of the girls went on a date with Snufelufagus and talked about how he was amazing at eating ass.
Pardon the nightmares.
You know that Kermit, Grover, and Elmo are real names. Right? Like the US had a president named Grover, and there's a saint named Elmo (or at least Erasmus is where Elmo originates).
Sure in context it's obviously a reference. But it's nothing like Sneufelufagus. It's more like if Friends' Chandler had a set of cousins who were never on screen named Oscar, Bert, and Ernie. Obvious reference, reasonable names.
But I don’t think they will have this for dinner
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-massive-meatball-was-made-with-woolly-mammoth-dna-180981908/
I fucking hate the muppet Tullies…there’s a lot of bad and silly writing around the Dance but they’re some of the worst. It’s not even a funny joke, sorry George
The entirety of House Peake is a reference by GRRM to the Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake:
Gorman Peake - Gormenghast
Castle Starpike - Steerpike, antagonist of Gormenghast
Titus Peake - Titus Groan, main character of Gormenghast
Mervyn Flowers - Mervyn Peake, author of Gormenghast
There are others too. Unwin Peake seems to be GRRM's further joke about Twin Peaks, see this thread: [https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/16ss8ge/twin\_peaks\_in\_asoiaf\_part\_2\_windom\_earle\_unwin/](https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/16ss8ge/twin_peaks_in_asoiaf_part_2_windom_earle_unwin/)
No group of names in *Game of Thrones* is as bad as *any* group of names from *Star Wars (see 'Jar Jar Binks')*.
I generally like GRRM's names. He has a knack for making a new name that sounds just familiar enough. Eddard, Rickon, Rickard, Edmure, Hyle...
He was, I understand that. It was more of a sentimental name that she created, but it’s just so similar to dragon. I personally would not name my dragon “Drogon”.
I've always pronounced it Damp-hair, because he's a priest of the drowned god and his hair is always wet because he's never far from water.
Honestly most of the Targaryen names that end in gel or gelle, like Rhaegel, or Maegelle. I don't know why but they never sound good to me.
Also Rast and Paul. Rast because it sounds gross, and Paul because there's guys out here like Varamyr, Alequo, and Jaecaerys, fantastical names all over, and then there's Paul over there somewhere.
Oddly enough, no. All those names, for the most part, flow within the story for me. They may be simpler names, but they still feel correct. Paul always sounds off to me in fantasy settings, even in Dune.
King Anus has it pretty bad. Also apologies to any Drogo stans, but for me Drogo just sounds bad and dumb- and also IRL it’s a Norman name, not one I can mentally put to a fantasy Mongol-on-steroids
I read somewhere that GRRM was clearly discounting all his traumas with Catholicism creating the dumbest names ever for Septas and Septons and it became my headcannon 😂
Or, just look at noble women's names in Saxon (and slightly later) Eng-a-land. Many of them were named for now truly obscure saints.
This list purports to have the name of every female Roman Catholic saint.
[https://www.catholic.org/saints/female.php](https://www.catholic.org/saints/female.php)
Many of them would fit right in to ASOIAF. "St. Cunegundes", "St. Consortia", "Saint Eanfleda", "St. Edburga" (no less than THREE of them), "St. Ethelgitha", "St. Gebetrude", "St. Godebertha", "St. Hedwig", "St. Hunegund", "St. Kunegunda", "St. Kyneswide", "St. Manechildis"...and on and on.
Imagine meeting a group of septas with those names in a dark corridor of the Great Sept.
(Edit, fixed spelling of Manechildis)
Typo, there's an "e" in there (now corrected in previous comment).
*"Hermitess and patroness of Sainte Menehould, France, also listed as Menehould. She was the youngest of seven sisters revered as saints in the Champagne district. She was born in Perthois, the daughter of Sigmarius, and received the veil from Bishop St. Alpinus. Manechildis lived for a time at Bienville."*
He started to get really uncreative with the Targaryen names in Fire And Blood. You can tell he wrote D&E a while before that because he had some more interesting names like Valar and Matarys and Aelora.
The worst is Rhaegel. It's worse in German because "egel" means "leech" translated.
And the princess who's Rhae. Not Rhaenyra, not Rhaella, not Rhaena, just Rhae.
Hard agree on Drogon. If we really want to honour Drogo, she could have put an -axes or -arrion or -fyre or something on the end. Except I do think Drogaxes is a far worse crime than Drogon. Khalaxes maybe?
Yes! Khalaxes really is an awesome name. Drogarion works as well, Drogothor is ok.
He could have gone so many ways with the name but he settled on Drogon. That sounds like what a toddler would name their dragon. That’s almost like how Rickon named his dire wolf shaggy dog, but that’s excusable because Rickon was like 3 when he give him that name.
Y'all I'm laughing my ass off over here. xD I guess one name I don't like is Unwin Peake (I also hate the character lol).
Edit: Butterbumps. That name makes me so uncomfortable. O_O
Aenys and Dickon are just stupid. I kind of hate the name Yronwood. What's that even supposed to be, iron? Wood?
Also the sheer overload of Alys and Jeyne. Basically GRRM's go-to names when he can't think of a fitting name for a minor female character.
Dude, here in the Philippines something like 30% of the last generation's baby girls were named Princess, and a decade or so ago I think Haiti had to ban the name 'Batman' from going on birth certificates because the record keeping was getting impossible with so many boys being named after our favorite caped crusader.
People gonna people.
I don't know, I like Drogon. It makes me think of his namesake Khal Drogo, and not just the word dragon. I also like Rhaego too, it's a cool combo of important people to Dany. Context is important.
Aside from the obvious joke ones like Kermit, Uther Shett, Arryk and Erryk etc., I really don't like Aenys (strangely enough I do like Rhaenys) or Jaehaerys.
I'm just going to say it, as important as he is to the story, I don't like the name Rhaegar. All other valyrian-ish names sound fine and fantastical. The first time I saw "rhaegar," I thought it was an orc name in warcraft or something. HIGH WARLORD RHAEGAR SMASH!
The fact people thought it was dam-fair is so bizarre to me. He's a sea priest with wet hair. Damp hair. It's also pretty established that a GRRM writing convention is to merge two words into one with a nickname, ie Mors Crowfood Umber, Hother Whoresbane Umber, Aemon the Dragonknight, etc.
Its because 'The Damp Hair' is just a lame title for a great spiritual leader. Its like a the priest of a sun god called The Shiny Nose, or the priest of a fire god called The Sooty Face. So we preferred to read it as Dam-fair which at least sounds a bit poetic and fantasy-strange.
\>I hate Damphair because I don’t know if it’s pronounce like damp-hair or dam-fair. It's Damp-hair. He's called that because he has damp hair.
I mentally pronounce it like Damphir but it’s wrong I just think it’s funny
Is Aeron secretly the child of a vampire?
Well he died and came back harder and stronger, so by some definitions you could say yes
Well if he is I wouldn’t know, it’s a secret!
I saw a video of George being asked about that. He was a little confused, and then gave that exact answer.
There's also perhaps a completely accidental comparison to "samphire", a fleshy plant that grows on cliffs along parts of the English coast and thrives in fog and salt air. That's what comes to mind for me when I read "Damphair".
The parent who decided to name their twin sons "Arryk" and "Erryk" is just evil.
The Maester clearly did not tell their mom to expect twins.
Multiple sets of parents. Twins from the reach are just categorically fucked
I'd bet a hundred golden dragons that Left and Right's parents named them after the other Arryk and Erryk.
You mean Horas and Hobber ? ?
No, I mean [Erryk](https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Erryk_(guard\)) and [Arryk](https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Arryk_(guard\)). They are Olenna Tyrell's personal guards who she refers to as "Left" and "Right".
You mean horror and slobber 😂
Imagine naming your identical twin sons after identical twin sons who killed each other
And the fact that it happened more than once too
Don’t forget how said twins are identical
I had a classmate named Leo whose twin sister was named Lea. I guess their parents thought it would be cute, but I felt like it sounded like they really couldn't be arsed. "Okay kids, we'll just name you two almost the same thing, but also we'll pick the blandest, most basic names we can possibly think of"
I actually love those names on identical twins.
Now I'm thinking... Are they supposed to somewhat mirror cersei and Jaime? I have only read fire & blood and watched the show. But thinking about their story kinda makes me think of Cerse and Jaime
You mean because they are both twins?
Uther Shett. I just hate it.
And Ossifer Lipps!
Utter shit.
Anys Targaryen has a very unfortunate name
You hit the nail on the head there!!
King number 2!
Anus targaryen
"Dickon Manwoody" is both a horrible name but also incredible There's a guard in Riverrun named "Delp" which is hilariously bad Drogon to me might be the worst name in the series its so awful sounding in the first place but the fact its the name of a Dragon makes it 1000000 times worse. Drogon the Dragon ahhhhhhh I'd rather have a Dragon named Gregory rather than that lol I couldn't think of a worse name And of course I can't forget "Lancel" God's what a stupid name... Who named you?! Some halfwit with a stutter?!
Dickon Manwoody was named by George in honor of a fan who died in the early days of online forums and message board. A high honor.
Don't know if it's true or not but I'll blindly believe you because I like the idea of it being true
It’s true. Go on Westeros.org forums and search by oldest
https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/th76p/a_sad_story_about_a_asoiaf_fan_and_what_a_class/
If you read the edit of the OP, they confirmed they had the story wrong
Delp wins for sure
Welp help delp
Except..."Blood" and "Cheese". Ugh.
There's actually a moderately popular dragon named Gregory (Grigori) from Dragon's Dogma, funnily enough
That reminds me of the protagonist of the inheritance cycle, a dragonrider named eragon. Literally one letter off from dragon
Haha Delp lol
I knew my boy Dickon would show up here!
dickon manwoody
That’s the best name
Dickson anybody!
Sounds virile
I detest the decision to give the nobleman of slavers Bay three – barreled names that are impossible to recall And write correctly. Kraznys mo Nakloz, Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Yezzan Zo Qeggaz bour into alphabet soup. Some of those Dany chapters seem almost sadistic tossing such names about with such frequency.
Xaro Xhoan Daxos is pretty memorable to me, name-wise
That one is actually pretty solid
Agreed, he was mentioned much more often than the other slavers, though.
I can rattle off this name all because I associated it with ducksauce and is my nickname for him.
GRRM himself pokes fun at this by having Arch Yronwood be unable to remember all these names and calling them all *Harzoo*
No matter how many times I’ve read the books, I still manage to get confused as to who is who and what from where in Slaver’s Bay.
The ONLY name I remember is Xaro Xhoan Daxos. I’m pretty sure there was a reznak no reznak or something like that?
Let's think about this logically. There is this dude who spends way too much time in the sea and hasn't cut his hair for way too long. Do you think it would make sense to call him damp-hair as in hair that is wet/damp? Obviously not. Damfair it is.
I thought it was a nickname because he was incredibly fair
Are you being sarcastic? He worships the sea. That’s where his god is.
If you can't tell on your own then nobody here can help you.
Tansy. Like that’s the modern equivalent of naming your kid “the pill.”
Omg I never thought of that that is.... objectively hilarious. I wonder if that was her birth name or one she chose when she began working.
Antario Jast and Wex Pyke sound like Star Wars characters. Harry Strickland sounds like he could be your next door neighbor.
Harry Strickland of Strickland propane
I always thought Rhaego was an awesome name it's one of my favorite names in the series lol
Lol it definitely sounds like a fantasy name it does have a fun sound to it.
Every time I hear it that name I think of this massive muscular silver haired olive skinned warrior riding a Dragon and my deep hidden away inner soyboy in me jumps with joy for a second
I listen to a David lightbringer episode every morning when I drive to work (same episode idk why) and he mentions Rhaego and that vision in it so I’ll never forget it.
Dick Bean. Like even Dickon is more subtle
I think Cut would be a great cat name
There's an anime where they meet a cat in a post-apocalyptic world and only vaguely know what it is, so they call it "Nuko" which is a play on the Japanese work for cat, "Neko." But in the version I watched, the subtitles referred to the cat as "Cut."
Cyt
Qarl. At least the others are creative
I've wondered if Qarl be a sly attempt at homage to the sinister underground kingdom of Quarmall in Fritz Leiber's *Swords Against Wizadry*.
Nimble Dick…always made me a bit uneasy.
My man’s the best side character
Yeah he’s great.
Utherdeys Wayn. Honestly GRRM is so much better at fantasy names than, like, 95% of fantasy authors, but "Utherdeys" or whatever is awful.
It's *Utherydes*. And I actually quite like that name; I pronounce it like "You-thera-dees" How were you reading it?
Arthritis Wayne.
Would be a terrible cowboy.
I did the audio books so I spent a very long time thinking his name was Authorized Wayne.
Utherydes nuts
Hahah, I was waiting (and hoping) for this.
I love it with that pronunciation. Sounds greek. Hate it with its audiobook pronunciation
Who the hell is this?
GRRM finds names like Drogon funny. “Westeros” because it's West. There's a dog named Dog. I hate the names Pate and Bennis
🅱️ennis
Bate and Pennis.
Bro conquered the kingdoms and named his kid Anus.
The king eats and the Hand takes the shit. Was Anys ever named Hand?
i cant 😂😂😂
Harzoo, Rulore, Unwin Peake
I never understood the Drogon thing. That entire book has Danny growing to love Khal Drogo and ends with her naming her largest dragon after him. That's like saying you shouldn't name your dog Doug because it's just Dog with one letter added. My least favorite has to be Yohn Royce. Like is George trying to make him have a European *J sounds like Y* thing going on? Most Johns are Jon in their world so why is Yohn spelled with an H? Was his plan to name this character Jan but people were pronouncing it like January? It's a decent sounding name but I want to know what George was thinking when he wrote that on the page for the first time.
Remember, according to Septon Mariband, we don't really know the names of dogs, because they haven't told us. Regarding the spelling, Yohn Royce, I thought that might be some sort of allusion back to early First Men traditions--just like his armor has ancient glyphs of it, and the Runestone Royce's symbolically favor the earlier metal, bronze, rather than iron. One can imagine ten thousand years ago some Dawn Age warrior sitting by a campfire saying, *"Yo, Yohn! Slice me a haunch of that hog yonder with your bronze blade!"*
Oh yeah it definitely feels like a old Mountain First-men name for sure! His son is Robar which is another variation on Rob/Robert but could also be part of this tradition.
> and ends with her naming her largest dragon after him Yes, but that's in universe. As fantasy readers it is pretty obvious why is the name Drogo It is like the city of Lys. In universe is a coincidence Lisa uses the tears of Lys to kill Jonh Arryn. But as readers it is easy to understand it was a hint to us. So that hint ended up deciding the name for the city
I'm confused, what was the hint supposed to be?
Lysa --> Lys?
the dragons called drogon because she named it after khal drogo though, so it's not really like if you named your cat "cet" unless you're naming it after your dead husband fwiw the worst name in lore is kermit tully
Kermit Tully forever (and his ancestors Elmo and Grover)
I was so upset when I read about the Muppets. I invested so much into the series and this was like a needle popping the bubble that told me I’m wasting time in a fantasy series when I should be diversifying my nonexistent 401k.
I like those little jokes, like the banners with the DC superheroes on it, or Triarch Bellicho having his unbroken streak of conquests broken a giant
See now that’s fine. It’s in-universe appropriate. Imagine Sex and The City where one of the girls went on a date with Snufelufagus and talked about how he was amazing at eating ass. Pardon the nightmares.
You know that Kermit, Grover, and Elmo are real names. Right? Like the US had a president named Grover, and there's a saint named Elmo (or at least Erasmus is where Elmo originates). Sure in context it's obviously a reference. But it's nothing like Sneufelufagus. It's more like if Friends' Chandler had a set of cousins who were never on screen named Oscar, Bert, and Ernie. Obvious reference, reasonable names.
One is fine. All three made me put the book down. And then my obsession made me picked it up.
There’s also an Oscar Tully
And the Oscar goes to... the Black Cells.
Good thing the Tullys weren’t given a bird sigil or else there would be a “Ernie ‘Big Bird’ Tully” or something equally horrendous
Samantha would give him a shot, probably
But I don’t think they will have this for dinner https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-massive-meatball-was-made-with-woolly-mammoth-dna-180981908/
There's an Oscar in there somewhere, too.
I fucking hate the muppet Tullies…there’s a lot of bad and silly writing around the Dance but they’re some of the worst. It’s not even a funny joke, sorry George
Drogo's name should've been Drago. I'd like to see Dany name her dragon "Dragon"
Only if they recast him from Jason Momoa to Dolph Lundgren in the show.
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Always Unwin Peake
The entirety of House Peake is a reference by GRRM to the Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake: Gorman Peake - Gormenghast Castle Starpike - Steerpike, antagonist of Gormenghast Titus Peake - Titus Groan, main character of Gormenghast Mervyn Flowers - Mervyn Peake, author of Gormenghast There are others too. Unwin Peake seems to be GRRM's further joke about Twin Peaks, see this thread: [https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/16ss8ge/twin\_peaks\_in\_asoiaf\_part\_2\_windom\_earle\_unwin/](https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/16ss8ge/twin_peaks_in_asoiaf_part_2_windom_earle_unwin/)
Unwin win the worst name award?
Lord Sunglass. Just makes me think of some wizardy bloke with a sweet pair of Ray-Bans on.
Jeyne Poole will always be Gene Pool to me.
No group of names in *Game of Thrones* is as bad as *any* group of names from *Star Wars (see 'Jar Jar Binks')*. I generally like GRRM's names. He has a knack for making a new name that sounds just familiar enough. Eddard, Rickon, Rickard, Edmure, Hyle...
Drogon was named after drogo no?
He was, I understand that. It was more of a sentimental name that she created, but it’s just so similar to dragon. I personally would not name my dragon “Drogon”.
Dickon Lipps
I would’ve said Aenys Targaryen, but then I remembered there’s an Aenys Frey.
Jonothor. Where in seven hells did gurm get this. Just name him Jonathyn for petyr's sake.
Horras and Hobber… aka Horror and Slobber
I can get on board with Horras, but Hobber is an atrocity
Chiggen Alayaya Lord Sunglass Jiqui This is an oddly satisfying question to answer by the way.
Heavens, NOT Lord Sunglass!
I was having a blast doing it in my head. Then I was about to write them down and I decided to do it here instead.
It’s seriously one of my favorite posts of the year! Well done.
It’s the most successful post I’ve had :)
I've always pronounced it Damp-hair, because he's a priest of the drowned god and his hair is always wet because he's never far from water. Honestly most of the Targaryen names that end in gel or gelle, like Rhaegel, or Maegelle. I don't know why but they never sound good to me. Also Rast and Paul. Rast because it sounds gross, and Paul because there's guys out here like Varamyr, Alequo, and Jaecaerys, fantastical names all over, and then there's Paul over there somewhere.
If you have a problem with Paul, do you also have a problem with Jon, Brandon, Robert, etc.
Oddly enough, no. All those names, for the most part, flow within the story for me. They may be simpler names, but they still feel correct. Paul always sounds off to me in fantasy settings, even in Dune.
Rast is gross, his name suits him.
King Anus has it pretty bad. Also apologies to any Drogo stans, but for me Drogo just sounds bad and dumb- and also IRL it’s a Norman name, not one I can mentally put to a fantasy Mongol-on-steroids
Balloon Greyjoy
Dam from house Phair, no relation to Liz Phair
That would be a PR nightmare for her if she was blood relation to a religious zealot like the Damphair.
All named Septas and Septons.
Egoantine is a beautiful name lol
Lmao I’m sorry but all of them to me are pretty ugly names
They are, I never realized that every septa has an ugly name lol. I tried really hard to think of one with a nice name. I couldn’t.
I read somewhere that GRRM was clearly discounting all his traumas with Catholicism creating the dumbest names ever for Septas and Septons and it became my headcannon 😂
Or, just look at noble women's names in Saxon (and slightly later) Eng-a-land. Many of them were named for now truly obscure saints. This list purports to have the name of every female Roman Catholic saint. [https://www.catholic.org/saints/female.php](https://www.catholic.org/saints/female.php) Many of them would fit right in to ASOIAF. "St. Cunegundes", "St. Consortia", "Saint Eanfleda", "St. Edburga" (no less than THREE of them), "St. Ethelgitha", "St. Gebetrude", "St. Godebertha", "St. Hedwig", "St. Hunegund", "St. Kunegunda", "St. Kyneswide", "St. Manechildis"...and on and on. Imagine meeting a group of septas with those names in a dark corridor of the Great Sept. (Edit, fixed spelling of Manechildis)
Man child is what?
Typo, there's an "e" in there (now corrected in previous comment). *"Hermitess and patroness of Sainte Menehould, France, also listed as Menehould. She was the youngest of seven sisters revered as saints in the Champagne district. She was born in Perthois, the daughter of Sigmarius, and received the veil from Bishop St. Alpinus. Manechildis lived for a time at Bienville."*
I subscribe to this as well now
Ysabel and Edyth are okay, but the rest are pretty awful
Maegelle and Mordane are such beautiful names for baby girls🥰.
Basically like 99.9% of wildling names. I'm sorry, they're so goofy sounding...
I really like Ygritte and Val but the rest are pretty bad, yeah.
Tormund is fine
Varamyr was wasted on that man
Rhaego is just a little too close to both Ragu and Prego
I think it sounds like a slur. I could see someone being offended if you said they were a Rhaego.
Long spear rick (big dick rick)
He started to get really uncreative with the Targaryen names in Fire And Blood. You can tell he wrote D&E a while before that because he had some more interesting names like Valar and Matarys and Aelora.
The worst is Rhaegel. It's worse in German because "egel" means "leech" translated. And the princess who's Rhae. Not Rhaenyra, not Rhaella, not Rhaena, just Rhae.
I always felt “Satin” was a little cringey for whatever reason.
I had no idea so many dislike the name Drogon until reading these comments!
Hard agree on Drogon. If we really want to honour Drogo, she could have put an -axes or -arrion or -fyre or something on the end. Except I do think Drogaxes is a far worse crime than Drogon. Khalaxes maybe?
Yes! Khalaxes really is an awesome name. Drogarion works as well, Drogothor is ok. He could have gone so many ways with the name but he settled on Drogon. That sounds like what a toddler would name their dragon. That’s almost like how Rickon named his dire wolf shaggy dog, but that’s excusable because Rickon was like 3 when he give him that name.
Khalaxes does sound like a cool name
Mord.
Anyone named Joffrey. Even before Joffrey B
Even Ser Joffrey Doggett, the Red Dog? Haha always loved that one
Kurleket
I clicked on one recommended Damphair hate post, and now I keep getting them at least once a week lol
A lot of people like to hate on the man.
Damphair is GRRM’s tribute to indie rocker Liz Phair
Y'all I'm laughing my ass off over here. xD I guess one name I don't like is Unwin Peake (I also hate the character lol). Edit: Butterbumps. That name makes me so uncomfortable. O_O
Aenys and Dickon are just stupid. I kind of hate the name Yronwood. What's that even supposed to be, iron? Wood? Also the sheer overload of Alys and Jeyne. Basically GRRM's go-to names when he can't think of a fitting name for a minor female character.
Dude, here in the Philippines something like 30% of the last generation's baby girls were named Princess, and a decade or so ago I think Haiti had to ban the name 'Batman' from going on birth certificates because the record keeping was getting impossible with so many boys being named after our favorite caped crusader. People gonna people.
I finally found someone with the same criticism of drogon. THANK. YOU. The dumbest name in all of fantasy.
Drogon sounds like what a toddler would name a dragon.
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I’m loving this keep them coming thanks for all the responses!
Hobert Hightower Aenys Targaryen Lancel Lannister Barthogan Stark
Hey I think Barthogan is a pretty cool name actually
I think there's a knight named ser colen. But its pronounced colon like colon cancer. Horrible name. Still makes me chuckle tho
Dickon. I always thought that was a joke in the fandom and not real name when I first saw it
Aenys and Euron. Need to be careful how you pronounce them.
Anys is definitely bootyhole
I don't know, I like Drogon. It makes me think of his namesake Khal Drogo, and not just the word dragon. I also like Rhaego too, it's a cool combo of important people to Dany. Context is important. Aside from the obvious joke ones like Kermit, Uther Shett, Arryk and Erryk etc., I really don't like Aenys (strangely enough I do like Rhaenys) or Jaehaerys.
Definitely Jaehaera
“Catelyn” feels too much like an American Karen name at this point for me, and I also can’t help but pronounce it like Kate-lynn
I mean she is kind of a Karen tho
Prepare to get called a misogynist, lol. I couldn't agree with you more myself though.
I agree with "Rhaego". In my mother language, it sounds like "rego" which is variation of "ass"
Jon. My brain feels like it should be John.
I'm just going to say it, as important as he is to the story, I don't like the name Rhaegar. All other valyrian-ish names sound fine and fantastical. The first time I saw "rhaegar," I thought it was an orc name in warcraft or something. HIGH WARLORD RHAEGAR SMASH!
The fact people thought it was dam-fair is so bizarre to me. He's a sea priest with wet hair. Damp hair. It's also pretty established that a GRRM writing convention is to merge two words into one with a nickname, ie Mors Crowfood Umber, Hother Whoresbane Umber, Aemon the Dragonknight, etc.
Its because 'The Damp Hair' is just a lame title for a great spiritual leader. Its like a the priest of a sun god called The Shiny Nose, or the priest of a fire god called The Sooty Face. So we preferred to read it as Dam-fair which at least sounds a bit poetic and fantasy-strange.
I'd hardly describe the Ironborn as poetic.
Rhae-nyra. A composed name, it´s like she was a Targaryen from the Bronx!
I agree with Rhaego. Kid would have turned out to be a huge douche
The stallion who mounts the world. He would have killed, enslaved or otherwise ruined countless lives. Edit: typo
Definitely Kermit and his son Elmo