SCA Names

Chinese Name Construction by Choi Min

"Breaking the Heraldic Log-Jam: Applying the China Biographical Database Project to the SCA" by Alec Story

• Open the files Alec has pulled into a format that doesn't require the database software, search those with Ctrl+F or other similar, depending on device)

• China Biographical Database Project Direct Link to the Project

  • Online Access for CBDB Direct Link (will need the characters you are looking for)

• "56 Unisex Song Dynasty Mingzi from the [CBDB]" by Maral of Dragon's Mist

Introduction to Pre-16th c Chinese Onomastics by Joshua Badgley 

Pleco App - Offers a searchable dictionary for Chinese Characters. 

• If you download the free add-ons this becomes both a Cantonese and a Mandarin dictionary, and notes whether a definition or character is archaic.

Family Search Database 

• Requires being able to parse Chinese characters.

• Further information on reading Chinese Family Ancestry books (Jiapu 家譜) by Line Wakefield

• Women's names are listed only as "[Surname] Madam/氏"

• This video on reading Korean Family Ancestry books (Korean version of Jiapu, Jokbo 族譜) by Mark Peterson has a method for finding women's full names, and might help for parsing the Chinese Family Search data as well. 

Chinese Names indexed in the Joseon text "Veritable Records of King Sejong" 

Japanese Name Construction by Choi Min

Name Construction in Mediæval Japan (NCMJ, or the Big Blue Book) by Sólveig Thróndardóttir. 978-1947401006. Only Available in Print.

• A part of this book can be found here, although it might have some errors as it is an early iteration.

Jisho.org Online Dictionary, has a name section. Search via romanji, kanji, or hiragana for names that use them.

"Meigaku: Designing and Documenting Japanese Names." Sólveig Thróndardóttir. 

• (CONTENT WARNING: Slide 4 has a Japanese Alphabet Song video from WW2 and it shows war propaganda)

Japanese Names by Sengoku Daimyo (website by Anthony Bryant and Joshua Badgley)

Japanese Names Wiki Article

Surnames from Sengoku Jinmyō Jiten by Joshua Badgley

• Pulled from the 戦国人名辞典 Sengoku Jinmei(aka Jinmyou) Jiten, or Sengoku Biographical Name Dictionary, romanizations are interpreted directly from the katakana readings next to names.

Japan Biographical Database , a sister project to the CBDB, but not as extensive yet, but with a built-in search.

Kanji Study App - Offers a more in-depth kanji dictionary than most.

• Includes name use examples and some free and paid add-ons to add etymology, and to add Korean, Vietnamese, and Mandarin Pinyin readings of characters, as well as noting old forms of the characters if there is any. 

• Android Only (There's a very good almost equivalent app dictionary that's iOS Only called Imiwa )

Family Search Database 

• Requires being able to parse Chinese characters/Kanji.

• Women's names are listed only as "[Surname] Madam/夫人" 

• This video on reading Korean Family Ancestry books (Jokbo 家譜) by Mark Peterson has a method for finding women's full names, and might help for parsing the Japanese Family Search data as well. The Japanese term for geneology books is Keifu 系譜.

Japanese Names indexed in the Joseon text "Veritable Records of King Sejong" 

"Some Sources for pre-1600 Indian Names" by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, 1999

"Women's Names from (Mostly) 16th Century Inscriptions at Tirupati (India)" by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, 1999

"Medieval Tamil Names" by Ursula Georges

"Female Chola Names" by Irayari Vairavi

"An Analysis of South Indian Female Names found in Donors, Devotees and Daughters of God" by Irayari Vairavi

"Some Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Mughal Women's Names" by Ursula Georges

Ryukyu Name Construction by Choi Min

Okinawan name Wiki Article Captured 9/15/2022 at 4:25PM EST 

• (Is actually really helpful with much info at the moment, hopefully that doesn't change.)

Okinawan-English Wordbook: A Short Lexicon of the Okinawan Language with English Definitions and Japanese Cognates by Mitsugu Sakihara, Leon Angelo Serafim, Shigehisa Karimata, 2006

Ryukyu Kahu (Family Records) Database Website 

• Mentioned in this 2017 presentation by Professor Masayuki Dana (田名真之), Director of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum.

JLect.com a Japanese Dialect (Ryukyu is a separate language but it has long been incorrectly classified as a dialect of Japanese) Dictionary

• Can filter by "Ryukyu" when searching, and it will tell what island in Okinawa the pronunciation is from.