steampunk names
The generator rolls among 4 equally likely styles, 25% each, and each one produces a completely different name structure: a noble title plus a Victorian name, a first name with a mechanical epithet, an adventurer codename hiding a civilian identity, or an alphanumeric automaton designation. None of the 4 reuses another style's structure.
The title "Commodore" came from one of 21 masculine options, "Ernest" from a list of 75 Victorian first names, and "Tinkerton" from one of 111 industrial surnames, one of 174,825 possible combinations in this style.
"ZYGO" is one of 60 technical prefixes, "-One" one of 35 suffixes, and "Clockwork Guardian" one of 30 functional roles, the only one of the 4 styles that skips human names entirely.
"The Mainspring Marauder" is one of 40 fixed codenames, and "Lavinia Coppergate" is the civilian identity rolled underneath, from the same Victorian-first-name-plus-industrial-surname pair used in the aristocrat style.
The naming patterns follow 19th-century British Victorian conventions, but adapted for steampunk fiction with fantastical titles and specializations.
The aristocrat always carries a noble title (Lord, Lady, Baron) in front of the name; the inventor has no title at all, but gets a mechanical epithet as a subtitle instead (from a 42-entry list, like "the Machinist" or "of Brass and Steam"). Both draw from the same pool of 137 Victorian first names and 111 industrial surnames, only the extra piece differs.
It joins a technical prefix (60 options, mostly abbreviations like VOLT, THERM, PIST) with a numeric or Greek suffix (35 options, ranging from "-VII" to "-Omega" to "Model D"), plus a functional role as a subtitle, chosen from 30 options. It is the only style with no human first name or surname.
Yes, by default: the main name is one of 40 fixed codenames ("The Iron Kite", "The Steam Leopard"), and the subtitle shows the civilian identity as "a.k.a. First Last", drawing on the same Victorian-industrial pool used by the other 2 styles with human names.
No: they are two separate lists, 21 masculine titles (Lord, Sir, Baron, Duke) and 16 feminine ones (Lady, Dame, Baroness, Duchess), and the generator rolls gender first (50/50) to pick the correct list before matching a first name, so "Lord" never pairs with a first name pulled from the feminine list.
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