Alien Naming Patterns

[Six of Twelve]

I've noticed that all the Talaxian names we've encountered have an X in them - Neelix, Alixia, Dexa, Brax, etc. This includes the name of their planet and one of their holidays - Talax and Prixin.

In original Trek, male Vulcan names were of one or two syllables and started with S and ended with K - Spock, Sarek, Sybok, Surak. Women's names were T'This and T'That - T'Pring, T'Pau, T'Pol. Vulcan names seemed to have branched our a bit with Tuvok and Vorik, though they retain the two syllable pattern and final K.

What other patterns have you noticed with other alien naming patterns?

 

[TommyR01D]

"Pel" seems to come up a lot as an alien name.

 

[The Old Mixer]

In original Trek, male Vulcan names were of one or two syllables and started with S and ended with K

Not always...see Stonn.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Whoever wrote DS9's "Dramatis Personae" seems to love apostrophes, as ALL of the alien names in that ep (regardless of species) have one.

Also, Ferengi tend to have funny sounding names like Gorp, Mench, Flax, etc. Reflecting how funny the Ferengi themselves are.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I've played around with the idea that there exists, somewhere on Qo'nos, a sub-continent with a particular well known ethnicity where the most common first name is "Smith."

 

[KelisThePoet]

In the original show, all male Klingon names started with "k": Kor, Koloth, Kang, Kahless. This pattern continued in the original cast movies, at least for the main characters (Kruge, Klaa), until VI (Chang, Gorkon--but something of a "k" or "k"-like sound lingers in both of these).

 

[Tracy Trek]

Whoever wrote DS9's "Dramatis Personae" seems to love apostrophes, as ALL of the alien names in that ep (regardless of species) have one.

People who write for Trek love those apostrophes.

Yeah, I've noticed those naming patterns in all of the series. Did it ever seem to anyone that Andorians have a lot of names that start with "th".

 

[at Quark's]

Well, the Bynars have conspicuously many 0 and 1's in their names. Borg names (they prefer to call them 'designations') seem to often begin with 'x of y' (x and y natural numbers, such that x <= y). Might be some kind of pattern there, but I''m not entirely sure.

 

[Forbin]

In the original show, all male Klingon names started with "k": Kor, Koloth, Kang, Kahless. This pattern continued in the original cast movies, at least for the main characters (Kruge, Klaa), until VI (Chang, Gorkon--but something of a "k" or "k"-like sound lingers in both of these).

Worf, son of Mogh, really threw me.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Worf, son of Mogh, really threw me.

Korf, son of Kogh.

 

[Idran]

This Treklit forum thread might be of interest to people here as well.

 

[publiusr]

Some of the names come from old words.
Ferengi" and similar terms are Arabic names for European traders, or for Westerners in general. The name is likely derived from the Arabic word faranj or ifranj, or Persian farangi, meaning "Franks".

I seem to remember Yazdegerd the unholy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazdegerd_I

Now there's a name.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Suliban come from Taliban
Klingon come from Clingan, the name of a man Roddenberry worked with in the LAPD.