Fantasy Name Generator for D&D

Need a name for a new character before the session starts, or for the tavern your players just walked into? This generator builds fantasy names for tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons: characters of eleven ancestries — human, elf, dwarf, halfling, gnome, half-orc, half-elf, tiefling, dragonborn, aasimar and goliath — plus taverns and inns, towns and villages, kingdoms and landmarks like islands, mountains, rivers, forests and lakes. Every syllable list and word list was written for this page.

How to use this tool

1. Choose what you need a name for.
2. For a character, pick the ancestry and a masculine or feminine sound (or any).
3. For a landmark, pick the type of place.
4. Press the button for a list; press again for more, or use a seed to keep a list you liked.

Formula

character = prefix + ending (+ family, clan or nickname); tavern = “The” + adjective + noun; place = word + suffix

Each ancestry has its own sound: flowing vowels for elves, hard consonants for dwarves and half-orcs, playful syllables for gnomes, a clan name before the personal name for dragonborn, and birth name, nickname and clan for goliaths. Tieflings sometimes take a single virtue word as a name. Letters are smoothed where two syllables meet, duplicates are dropped and everything is drawn with secure random numbers.

Example

Ten dwarf names might include Thrarik Anvilbraid and Hjalhild Copperdelve; asking for taverns gives names like The Rusty Kettle or The Fox & Fiddle, and a river might come out as The Ember River or Mistwater.