Name generator

Toggle the worlds you want, real or invented, and flip a name. Elves, Westerosi houses, forty living cultures, pirates, taverns, starships. Nothing you pick leaves this page.

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    Where the names come from

    Tick as many as you like. Every name in a batch picks one of your sources at random.

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    Generators people ask for

    Each one ticks a set of sources and flips a batch. Adjust the ticks after if you like.

    Fantasy name generator

    Elves, dwarves, hobbits, Westerosi houses, wizards and dragonborn in one batch.

    Baby name generator

    Real first names from eight cultures, first name only, ready for the shortlist.

    D&D name generator

    Dragonborn, tiefling, gnome, halfling, drow, elf, dwarf and orc for the next character sheet.

    Game of Thrones name generator

    The North, Valyria, the Dothraki sea, the Iron Islands and the Free Cities.

    Lord of the Rings name generator

    Elvish, Dwarvish, Hobbit, Rohirrim and Orc names from Middle-earth.

    Sci-fi name generator

    Galactic two-part names, droid designations, cyberpunk handles, starships and planets.

    Random first and last name

    All forty real cultures at once. Characters, test data, the form that wants a name.

    Place name generator

    Taverns, towns, kingdoms, planets, sailing ships and starships for the map.

    Username generator

    Usernames, band names, startup names, superhero aliases and cyberpunk handles.

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      Nothing pinned yet. Pin a name from the batch or the board.

      How it works

      The real cultures are lists of actual given names and surnames, with the culture's own rules applied: family name first for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Hungarian names; a patronymic built from the father's name for Icelandic, Russian and Viking-age Norse; surnames that agree with gender in Russian, Polish and Czech; the three-part Roman name; two surnames sometimes in Spanish.

      The invented worlds are not lists. Each one is a small grammar of syllables that sound like that world, so a Valyrian name is full of ae and ys, a Dothraki name ends the way Drogo's does, and an Argonian gets either a hyphenated Jel name or a three-word one. You will not find these names in the books, only ones that could be.

      Every pick uses crypto.getRandomValues. Pinned names live in your browser's storage and nowhere else. The only thing this page records is that a batch was flipped, how many, and how many sources were ticked. Never the names.