Well just an update on the work then :)

I restarted from zero, figuring I could do a better work than my old MTW lists. I must say I'm amazed how bad the names are for any of the factions (so far) in the game. 90% of the lists are simply wrong : not medieval, not noble, not spelled correctly or simply not local. I end up with cardinals or generals being called Karembeu, Richelieu, Chanteur or Maquereau in France (!!!!!!). Keeping MTW lists would have been a smart move and at least would have saved their time for bug fixing.

Complete (or near) :
France, England, Empire, Spain. Lists based on 13th and 14th centuries roll of arms, individual seals, knight rolls (french term is a "montre", not sure there's an accurate translation) and some genealogies. Surnames lists are 200-300 names long.
Byzantium. List based on individual seals.
Mongols. No glory, just plaggia from a good article :)

Advanced (50 to 90%) :
Portugal and Venice.
Scandinavians. I do them all at once, so work will be done for mods including Sweden and Norway.
Scots. Half work done.

Started :
Hungary, Poland, Milano and Sicile. (factions I intend to complete before patch).
Bohemia, Ireland and Wales that arent a priority since they are for additional mods.
Aztecs (well since they are in the vanilla, at least get their names right).

So that leaves Russia and muslim factions for now. I may find something for these but thats where help could be useful.


Concerns :
- Spelling and allowed character. I can't test right now so I don't know which characters will be dropped. I guess some will be anyway. Names like Ágærðr are likely to be spelled Ágaerdr or Agaerdr. I hope that at least accents will remain.
- Patronymics. I wont be able to keep any logic in the patronymic system of most languages. For example in spanish : Fernán Gonzalez de Rojas would have to be the son of a Gonzalo (..) de Rojas. Same applies to gaelics or scandinavian bynames (Muiredach macDonnchaid, Alger Haraldsen and even in english William FitzRoger). CA chose to drop most patronymics (12 macs in the whole scottish list !). I myself prefer to keep the esthetics, so I kept an accurate proportion of these. Spanish and Portuguese will have genitive (Ruiz, Sanchez, González) forms in the firstnames (that way they will at least change from generation to another).
We can't expect miracles, just something better than having a king with a 17th century peasant name (or even worse a 21th century football player ...).