Here’s something you don’t see every day: a gender-reversed Victorian couple!
Steampunk as a genre got its start with The Difference Engine and The Diamond Age, both set in a alternate world Victorian England. So, it bears to follow that Steampunk characters have English language names that were popular during that time. There are no hippy names like Rainbow or Phoenix in Steampunkland, and neither are there Jasons and Jennifers, Ryders and Reillys. It’s all very very Anglo and to modern ears a bit stuffy.
There’s some steampunk fiction using non-Western settings, like India orJapan, but for the average Western reader the antique luster of the names is not readily apparent. To a native of that land they would be, so I advise asking one for advice should you be writing in that setting.
Here’s a list of randomly generated names for English-speaking Western-oriented steampunk. As many steampunk characters are adventurers, inventors, or nobility of a sort, I included titles.
Steampunk Characters (Western World)
| Female
Millicent Flora Lesshe Sister Edna Ulska Luisa Rachel Isfield Miss Samantha Clothmeadow Theodosia Ann Sinclair Epona Lovar Hollylock Dr. Anthea Leergold Mary Vandermilk Thea Saltwold Lady Eglantine Norwood Professor Iphigenia Westley Ada Mabel Gutch |
Male
Sir Ronald Answith Zachariah Willows Fletcher Phillip Lectrostan Commodore Trajian Telljoy Captain Simon Lexhart Alonzo Brass Angel Hillary Poorgarden Ensign Lucius Lovebloom Morris Wyckant Professor Atticus Edgar Hoosier Constable Reginald Bloodnought Israel Alexander Woolson |
