Retired names coming back?

[Jesse Addams]

I know this topic has already been brought up, but I noticed in the "Change Name" list there is the surname 'Senne'. I searched that name and it looks that it was a name from 16 years ago? So are they actually bringing retired names back?

Or did I look at something wrong?

Thanks

[Garnet Psaltery]

At a quick check I could see that Senne is a previous name and so is Cerulean.  I haven't checked any others yet but those two are definitely recycled or have remained.  Interesting.

This is the current list:

Edited August 31 by Garnet Psaltery
Added list.

[Rowan Amore]

The list provided by LL in the wiki is for all last names used up until Feb. 2023.  That would include new last names as well...

[Rowan Amore]

Below is the list of all last names ever used as of 02 February 2023. Please refer to this list before sending in any last name suggestions.

 

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Current_Last_Names#S

[Kimmi Zehetbauer]

LL won't even offer limited use of the old names like for giving a spouse's toon the same last name.

Speaking of names --- had a friend tell me she tried to change her name, but no matter what combo the system keeps kicking it back.  It's a 4 letter name. I told her she might need to lodge a ticket.

[Garnet Psaltery]

11 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

The list provided by LL in the wiki is for all last names used up until Feb. 2023.  That would include new last names as well...

That may be but I got the list from going through the name change procedure (not completing it, obviously). Those were the available names yesterday.

[InnerCity Elf]

14 hours ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:

LL won't even offer limited use of the old names like for giving a spouse's toon the same last name.

Speaking of names --- had a friend tell me she tried to change her name, but no matter what combo the system keeps kicking it back.  It's a 4 letter name. I told her she might need to lodge a ticket.

In the info text, it only speaks of a "suggested maximum of 31 characters" in regards to length. I was able to choose a name with 4 letters on my own. I ended up wanting another surname, when it was released, and changed the first name along with it, but I definitely had a 4 letter name for a while. Not sure when that was, maybe something changed, but the info still only has the 31 characters max, or your friend tried to have a special character in the name, or maybe the four letter name+surname combination was already taken? Short names might generally be taken sooner, I guess.

[Rowan Amore]

4 hours ago, Garnet Psaltery said:

That may be but I got the list from going through the name change procedure (not completing it, obviously). Those were the available names yesterday.

The OP said that Senne was used 16 yrs ago, though and is now back on the list of NEW last names.  

Thought I remember seeing an list of old last names and when they were introduced from the beginning of SL but can't find that.

Edited September 1 by Rowan Amore

[Garnet Psaltery]

3 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

The OP said that Senne was used 16 yrs ago, though and is now back on the list of NEW last names.  

Thought I remember seeing an list of old last names and when they were introduced from the beginning of SL but can't find that.

I think I see what you mean - in the procedure for changing a name the page does say "Changing your account name, whether to a previous name or a new name ..", which I'd have taken to refer to a name that the individual had used before, but perhaps it's growing a little ambiguous now.  I don't know where the list of all historic names is either, though I remember it being mentioned sometimes.

[Marigold Devin]

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Edited September 1 by Marigold Devin
whoops

[SpiritSparrow Skydancer]

I’m pondering going back to Sewell again because of so many skydancers being used. 
I rarely see Sewell 

[Eddy Vortex]

3 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

The OP said that Senne was used 16 yrs ago, though and is now back on the list of NEW last names.  

Thought I remember seeing an list of old last names and when they were introduced from the beginning of SL but can't find that.

slnamewatch? I know that site hasn't been maintained in years so I'm guessing some weird stuff might have crept in since the webmaster seemingly abandoned it. I'm afraid to go there now as I ran the url though an antivirus program and got this result:

[Alwin Alcott]

1 hour ago, SpiritSparrow Skydancer said:

I’m pondering going back to Sewell again because of so many skydancers being used. 
I rarely see Sewell 

my alt reverted back from the Skydancer to his Twine name, the first name he's begging for for years was available too.

[AzureWaves]

Retired last names are NOT coming back. Cerulean dropped in January 2024, so give it a few months or a year for that to reach max usage and removed from the list. Senne could've been launched recently as well. They've had lots of last names in the past that's similar and off by a letter or two.

[Honey Puddles]

21 hours ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:

LL won't even offer limited use of the old names like for giving a spouse's toon the same last name.

Speaking of names --- had a friend tell me she tried to change her name, but no matter what combo the system keeps kicking it back.  It's a 4 letter name. I told her she might need to lodge a ticket.

One weird quirk seems to be, if someone changes their name to something.. let's say "Joe Resident" changes their name to "Jeffrey Smith".. then after a week he says "I hate this, everyone calls me Joe, I'm going back to that" and then pays the fee to change back to Joe Resident.. the name "Jeffrey Smith" is still permanently unavailable to anyone else.

I know this because a friend registered a name I REEEEAAAALLLY liked, then released it like a day later. But it's gone, gone, gone.

We're still friends tho.

•• ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ••

That said, we DESPERATELY need some new last names.

Edited September 1 by Honey Puddles

[Garnet Psaltery]

1 hour ago, AzureWaves said:

Retired last names are NOT coming back. Cerulean dropped in January 2024, so give it a few months or a year for that to reach max usage and removed from the list. Senne could've been launched recently as well. They've had lots of last names in the past that's similar and off by a letter or two.

That would indicate that people with those names who have been in SL for several years have changed them recently, though it leaves the question why there are residents with the surname Senne who are oldbies but with little or nothing on their profiles and no payment info on file.  Is someone so keen to gift a new name to, say, an alt who does nothing?  As for spelling, I checked very carefully.  When I get time I'll look up the rest.  Of course if a Linden cared to drop by and explain the mystery that would put an end to speculation, but I wouldn't know whose job it is.

[SpiritSparrow Skydancer]

I always asked for handmaiden as a last name then some clever girl used it as a first name don’t remember her last then used a nickname so she is some devils handmaiden or something but I thought clever girl anyway. 

[Alwin Alcott]

2 hours ago, Honey Puddles said:

I know this 

this was known from start  

[Jesse Addams]

3 hours ago, AzureWaves said:

Retired last names are NOT coming back. Cerulean dropped in January 2024, so give it a few months or a year for that to reach max usage and removed from the list. Senne could've been launched recently as well. They've had lots of last names in the past that's similar and off by a letter or two.

Type in the last name 'Senne'.. there are pages and pages of people (almost all 16years) who have that last name. That would be quite a bit of people who changed to Senne very recently. It's possible, but I highly doubt it.

[Simo Vodopan]

It would be wild if I saw more 'Vodopans'. In my 18 years of SL I've only seen about 3 others or so.

Edited September 1 by Simo Vodopan

[Carolyn Zapedzki]

4 minutes ago, Simo Vodopan said:

It would be wild if I saw more 'Vodopans'. In my 18 years of SL I've only seen about 3 others or so.

I don't think I have seen a Vodopan before, you are the first.

[Simo Vodopan]

5 minutes ago, Carolyn Zapedzki said:

I don't think I have seen a Vodopan before, you are the first.

Yeah, its a pretty rare name from what I know. This was a last name you could have back in 2006. I dont think it was a popular choice.

Edited September 1 by Simo Vodopan

[Carolyn Zapedzki]

1 minute ago, Simo Vodopan said:

Yeah, its a pretty rare name from what I know. This was a last name you could have back in 2003. I dont think it was a popular choice.

Sorry about this, I just went to check the name out and there's loads of Vodopans. (I am odd, I like looking at old profiles)

[Simo Vodopan]

2 minutes ago, Carolyn Zapedzki said:

Sorry about this, I just went to check the name out and there's loads of Vodopans. (I am odd, I like looking at old profiles)

Nothing odd about that and I made a typo; I meant to say 2006. Yeah, a few exist, but compared to some of the other names they are a little rarer. Good luck finding ones that are active, most of them stopped logging in at this point.

Edited September 1 by Simo Vodopan

[Carolyn Zapedzki]

2 minutes ago, Simo Vodopan said:

Nothing odd about that and I made a typo; I meant to say 2006. Yeah, a few exist, but compared to some of the other names they are a little rarer. Good luck finding ones that are active, most of them stopped logging in at this point.

Yeah, tons of "desolate" Accounts. 

I do wish they would bring back proper names for new accounts, not fair that people have to pay for a proper name.