#vulcan names

[void-ranger-vger]

Screenshot of a text from my wife

Text:

Her: ….it just occurred to me that, like "Shrek" and "Spork" and "Stork" being acceptable Vulcan names, "Kotex Pamprin" is a reasonable Cardassian name

Her: Reverse it and you have a reasonable Bajorin name

me: I AM POSTING THAT ON TUMBLR DOT COM IMMEDIATELY.

[sptoastaddict]

Weird Vulcan names I found whilst using a generator

T'Luv Math Spolka Neck Stick T'Kikkirk? T'plan Sock Sun T'run Oven Fun Math T'moth

[old-type-40]

Someone in the Trek tag asked a great question about the order of personal and family names for Vulcans. And I realized that in all my years of being a Trek fan I had never given it any thought. So I went to see what Memory Alpha had to say. I had never seen what the late, great Dorothy Fontana had said:

Jane Wyatt, who played Spock's mother Amanda Grayson, was once asked by fans at a convention what Spock's first name was. She replied, perhaps jokingly, "Harold" [12] However, the question itself was flawed, since the episode "Journey to Babel" makes it clear that "Spock" is Spock's personal name.

On the other hand, Spock's family name has never been established in canon. In the episode "This Side of Paradise", Leila Kalomi says to Spock, "You never told me if you had another name," to which he replies, "You couldn't pronounce it." D.C. Fontana – who was considered the "Vulcan expert" of the TOS behind-the-scenes staff and who created such details as the fact that Spock's father was an ambassador and his mother a school teacher – revealed, in an issue of the fanzine Spockanalia, that she had intended his family name to be "Xtmprsqzntwlfd", but since this is unpronounceable, there wasn't really any way to get this said in dialogue during an episode.

The Pocket TOS book Ishmael gives Spock's full name as "S'chn T'gai Spock".

This made me think of a head canon. What if Vulcans don't have a personal/family name combo like other races do? They're a telepathic species. They have a verbal use name like Spock, Sarek, or Tuvok. But they have a nonverbal telepathic name that contains the essence of who they are and their family relationships. Everybody with whom they have a close and thus telepathic bond knows this "name" but it's nothing that has any sort of verbal expression.

[shibonoku]

So if Spock’s human name would be “Harold” as stated by Jane Wyatt (who played Amanda Grayson), I feel like Solok’s human name would be like Patrick. (He gives me Patrick vibes, I’m willing to dispute this.)

And I can’t remember where but once I translated Sarek’s name to human, and it came back as “Mark”

I’m always so impressed and in love with Vulcan names but what if when translated to “human names” are just ordinary??

[mostly-functional]

Star Trek Vulcan name generator. 10,000's of names are available, you're bound to find one you like.

Everyone try this! It's absolutely hilarious.

Names I've gotten so far include:

Strut

Le

Spyssuck

Skyjett

Chin

Hen

Man

Sang

Sass

and my personal favourite

Spirk

[yel-halansu]

I need a name for my Vulcan oc! He’s the doctor boyfriend of the only (very very accident prone) human serving on a vulcan ship. Have any suggestions?

Na’Shaya! The best resource for Vulcan names is definitely the series put together by the folks at Kir’Shara: https://kirshara.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/a-list-of-vulcan-names/

[transxfiles]

trek fic writers will be like “aww fuck i need a vulcan name” and jam any three letter combination in between an s and a k and be like “hell yeah fuck yeah” which isn’t too dissimilar from what canon writers did.

[groovy-lady]

AHAHAHAHAA I LOVE THIS!!!! As a Tolkien fan, this made me giggle! *considers making Spock’s last name be Took on my Spock RP blog*

https://www.stoacademy.com/tools/name_generator.php

A random name generator for STO that creates name for any race based on predefined rules for each race.

Update: I did change my Spock’s surname to Took!