Darynese names are usually divided into two parts -- the personal name and the clan name. In clan affairs (far enough from one's immediate family that one cannot be known directly, but within the same clan), or if one's parent has done enough of note that her first name alone is recognizable, one may attach a matronymic, or (more rarely) a patronymic. Typically the name order is clan name, then personal name, then matronymic. However, Darynese see nothing wrong with changing name order to fit in, or in adopting a patronymic or matronymic if the local culture uses on. So a Darynese person in America would generally not use the matronymic, and put personal name first, while a Darynese in Russia would use his or her patronymic, and a Darynese in Japan would use clan name first.
Clan name are formed by listing the clan, dropping the final e (if any -- clan names always end in consonants or 'e's), then putting a letter marking what continent of Daryn the person resides in. All off-worlders (and some islands and archipelagos on Daryn) would use an /i/. Matronymics are formed by taking one's mother's name, then adding -yil, then the appropriately gendered ending.
So, as an example, Rikayo, son of Mar from Darenke clan would list his full name as darenka-pai rikayo maryilao. However, to an American or British offworlder, he'd just call himself Rikayo Darenka.
Personal names are gendered by the last vowel -- so any name that ends in /ao/ or /o/ is masculine, and any name that ends in /u/ or /ai/ is feminine. That can even affect nouns with no human gender -- for example, if you wanted to name a girl-child Alao (heart), one would normally alter the name to Alu or Alai.
An exception for gendered names often comes when naming children after the deceased -- it is considered tradition that if someone close to the parents (especially relatives) dies a year before birth to name the child after that person. That is one of the only times it is considered disrespectful to alter the name to fit the gender of the new bearer. Occasionally multiple people die in the same time period, so names like Taeyinyil/Taeyaoyil/Taeyaiyil (child of the people/men/women) are not unheard of. Typically, some other method of typing the deceased together is used if possible. For example, Alriai was named for two deceased aunts who were both pilots.
A List of Darynese Names and Their MeaningsDarynese will use loan words for obvious things, such as alien plants or animals or people. Typically people are named from the adjectival form of the land first. So, for example:
| erys | terrestrial |
| erysdo | a human language |
| erysryn | Planet Earth |
| erysrynyil | person from Earth, can also mean 'human being' |
-yil is usually used to indicate a child or follower -- it's a very common suffix and affix in words. In addition to being used in matronymics and ethnic/national groups, it can also mark religion (translated loosely as 'follower'). So, for example, kyristeyil would be the Darynese word for Christian (follower of Christ).
Some common sounds with no Darynese equivalent:
| Sound | Usual Darynese Substitution |
| /ch/ | /k/ |
| /dh/ | /d/ |
| /f/ | /p/ |
| /g/ | /k/ |
| /h/ | (dropped) |
| /j/ | /y/ |
| /ng/ | /n/ |
| /q/ | /k/ |
| /sh/ | /s/ |
| /th/ | /t/ |
| /v/ | /b/ |
| /w/ | /u/ |
| /x/ | kys |
/y/ is often used to break up consonant pairs, and /e/ to prevent stops from ending words. Vowels are usually done from the listener's best guess, which is more of an art than a science.