Most popular fantasy personal & kingdom names, according to ChatGPT

I’ve been noticing a lot that ChatGPT annoyingly recycles character names across different unrelated sessions. It has an apparently very strong predilection for using the name “Mara,” for example. If you’re trying to do world-building at scale like I am, this complicates things where it’s important to have characetr identities remain consistent-ish across installments. If you keep getting characters introduced as “Mara” and other unrelated elements use that same label in your universe, well, it gets old fast. So after quizzing it about what it thinks its reasoning is behind this (take it, as everything, with a grain of salt), I had ChatGPT generate both the list of top 100 items, along with a blog post introduction to use in its own voice: This list is not a statistical census of AI-written fiction. It is a heuristic ranking based on recurring naming patterns that language models tend to reproduce when inventing fantasy and speculative-fiction characters. Names such as Mara, Elara,…