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How do we know if a name is real?
How do we know if a name is real? Someone could just get on here and submit a name that is not real. You really don't know. Of course I guess it wouldn't matter but how do we know? Maybe we just say a name is unfamilliar to us and say it's not real but it actually could be real. I know it wouldn't matter if it wasn't real but I'm kind of curious sometimes. I really want to know.
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Submitted names are looked over by editors and if its determined not to have any usage, it's deleted.
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As for names that are from literature or popular culture, I think the name has to be from an existing, official work of literature/pop culture - names made up for fanfics obviously do not count. A good rule of thumb would be to do a Google search for the name and the name of the work of fiction it appears in.

This message was edited 5/27/2017, 8:20 AM

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