Name Generators

Finding the perfect name is never easy. Whether it's for a main character, an ancient city, a spaceship or your novel's thousand-year-old dragon, a good name brings your world to life. This page brings together a list of name generators: fantasy name generators, generators for tabletop RPGs, and tools for building character, place and world names. You'll find plenty of practical ways to spark your imagination and land on names that feel original, consistent and evocative.

Some of the sites listed below specialize in fantasy names, others in novel character names, and others in random names for tabletop games. Whether you're writing a grounded, realistic story, an intergalactic epic or your next Dungeons & Dragons campaign, you should find the inspiration you were missing here.

Many of these generators let you narrow down the kind of name you're after: first and last names by nationality, invented or foreign-sounding names, names for fictional cities, species, planets or kingdoms. Some go as far as pulling names from constructed languages or well-known fictional universes.

And if you're just getting started building a fictional world, it's worth checking out our worldbuilding tools too: you'll find resources there for mapping your world and shaping a solid story structure.

Name generators are more than a gimmick: they're a real gateway into creativity. In a few clicks, they help you get past the "what do I call it?" wall and keep your story consistent. Whether you write fantasy novels, run tabletop games, or just love writing, this selection will save you real time while feeding your imagination.

And if you want to keep sharpening your craft, check out our other writing tools too, like synonym dictionaries and writing platforms.