Favourite names for spankees

The part about Frank Cooper changing his first name to Gary after Gary, Indiana is true but the name was in use for a long time before then. However Cooper made the name much more popular. In the 1910's it was the 677th most popular male name in the US but in 1954 a year after Gary Cooper won an Oscar for High Noon it was the 9th most popular. It has since declined in popularity.

By the way, Gary was the last name of the man the town was named after.

Nice one tiptopper. I was half right then.

Oh, I don't know - could have been 78 AD or even 80.

To me some names are sexier than others: Susan is sexier than Mary, for example. I do try to make names appropriate to the character, both in matters like social class and geographical origins (Tracy is unlikely to be the daughter of a duke or Felicity to be Texan trailer trash). I tend to like spankee names that suggest some poise and pride but also femininity - Susan, Penelope, Felicity, Lucy, Victoria, Emma. I think Susan and Lucy are probably the ones I've used most in prose.

In planning spanking verse, no opportunity should be missed to make opportunities for rhymes, so I tend to choose both forenames and surnames that will rhyme helpfully (Sue - true/blue/shoe/due etc; Lucy - juicy, Anna - tan her, Brenda - bend her/rend her, Felicity - publicity/lubricity etc).

I always have fun with foreign names, fore and aft, looking up lists and finding ones that suggest something, either in their mother-tongue meaning (I find female names that mean things like moon, fruit, generous, queenly) or by pun with English: I enjoyed creating Aashi Bhatt and was quite taken aback to find the internet is full of real Aashi Bhatts, and in another ethnic Indian story I invented a spanker called Mr Upender, a real Indian surname.

From this side of the Atlantic, neither of those things seems obvious to me. Us USA folks know little about dukes, and I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised to meet a Felicity in a Texan trailer park.

Our reaction to names can be cultural, situational, and very individual.

Guy

Come on Guy, what about the duke and the dolphin in Huckleberry Finn?
I like female names with -ie, -ette or -ine endings quite a lot, because as barretthunter says they feel feminine and poised (to me anyway) and we can't have poised femininity round these parts for very long.
I have a current problem with this naming thing because I need to change Red Sonja's name in my story of almost that name. She is a TM and I wouldn't want to upset Stan the Man Lee or the Marvel Comics empire. I've been racking my brains trying to come up with a female name that would fit an Amazon queen and have that little something as well, not too muscular but not too feminine either. Anybody got any suggestions?
As for the names of female spankers: look up Elizabeth Brownrigg! I think hunting sorts of names would be good for a riding-crop bearing woman, like Dahlia in PG Wodehouse, or Tabitha or Rowena or Georgiana or Lucinda (not Williams).

Amazonia? Amazonie?

If memory serves, the original Queen of the Amazons was Hippolita. There are various transliterations from the Greek. (These days perhaps it should be Brazos. ) Not sure if that would have the effect you want, however. Sonja without the Red is surely not trademarked, or is she? Trademarking goes so overboard these days. Red Bull objected to a beer (not an "energy drink", a beer) with "Red" in its name, and claimed that "We own the word red" so who knows.

It sounds like a lot of us could be on the receiving end of lawsuits from Red Bull if they're really claiming ownership of the word red! Redness is or should be an essential attribute of bottoms, merely an acidental attribut of bulls

There is a beer from Orkney called "The Red MacGregor", and as Scots called the Red something long predate Red Bull****, I doubt if their case would succeed.

OK, drkeate - let's suppose Felicity is a shop assistant in Jarrow (look it up). The name would suggest either that she'd taken a big fall (unable to get a job after graduating in Classics?) or that her parent had Big Ideas of social advancement. Both quite possible, but if neither applied, I'd call her Tracy or Kelly or whatever.

To go back to the beginning of all this,

>Do you think the name of the hapless lady adds to the excitement of the story or I am being daft?

I don't think it is daft at all!

We all have associations with different names that are more or less alluring. They will not, of course, be the same for everyone, but there should be enough overlap that what one person enjoys another probably will too. Who cares if Gertrude or Agatha gets a sore bottom - while the same punishment inflicted on Elaine or Jennifer will be altogether different!