On Soviet names, Nick Brooke reminded me of the wonderful Traktorina.
I can't help but wonder if the current generation of Russians are
christening their kids after the Mercedes, Dollar and Hitman (I hope
not the latter, as Russian has no H and uses the G in
transliteration, so this would become Gitman). But before this gets
too OT, Andrew also usefully raised the Puritan names based on
virtues and injuctions. I tend to use these for Black Horse County,
but I suppose Lunars might call their kids names like Inclusive,
Scarlet, Cyclical and Glowline.
(Though part of me would have liked to have gone simply with Romanic
names like Quintus, Marcus and Valerianus as the standard for Lunars.
Why? Well, as the Goddess says, 'We are all -us')
Mark
Mark Galeotti