List of Name Generators

[Carnifex]

Here's a name generator I made some years ago (costs $5 but has some nice features I have not found anywhere else):
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/...Name-Generator

[gogocamel]

Last year I started building my own generators using Inspiration Pad Pro. The coding language is pretty easy to pick up. I'm currently working on a dungeon concept generator which includes a naming component. Here is a quick ten item list from its current build:

The Stinking Resevoir
Ironhawk Cloisters
The Goblin Harem
The Workshop Of Snow
The Harpy's Kiss
Ogrewright
Voldodon's Menagerie
The Feral Stronghold
The Gargoyle Station
Wavespire

Someday when I have the time, I'll port it online. I'll post the link here when I have accomplished that goal. In the meantime, check out the software. Last time I checked it was free.

[HansR]

I spent some time creating Names generator tables for different countries using Inspiration Pad Pro. They are separated by continent but you can put them all in the same place and even create a single file with all tables together so you can mix first names and Last names from different countries.

Files are text format but they must be ANSI encoded to work with non-English characters so I recommend to Edit them with Notepad++ (which is the text editor I use).

I’m also working on a character generator and a planet name generator that I’ll share with you once it’s done.

BTW I just checked and as said gogocamel, Inspiration Pad Pro stills free and for those of you that prefer to use your tablet or smartphone they also have a version for Android.

Inspiration Pad Pro creates a folder in your Documents folder where you have to unzip this file to work properly. Documents\Inspiration Pad Pro\Common\nbos

Enjoy

Names.zip

Update:

Here is the Content:

Asia
BengaliNames.ipt
BENGALI: Bangladesh, India

BurmeseNames.ipt
BURMESE: Myanmar

ChineseNames.ipt
CHINESE: China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, USA

FilipinoNames.ipt
HindiNames.ipt
HINDI: India, Nepal, UK

IndonesianNames.ipt
JapaneseNames.ipt
KazakhNames.ipt
KhmerNames.ipt
KHMER: Cambodia

MalayNames.ipt
MongolianNames.ipt
PashtunNames.ipt
PASHTUN: Afghanistan, Pakistan

PunjabiNames.ipt
PUNJABI: India, Pakistan, UK

SinhaleseNames.ipt
SouthKoreanNames.ipt
Tajik-UzbekNames.ipt
TAJIK-UZBEK: Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Thai-LaoNames.ipt
VietnameseNames.ipt


EasternEurope
AlbanianNames.ipt
ALBANIAN: Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia

ArmenianNames.ipt
BelarusianNames.ipt
BosnianNames.ipt
BOSNIAN: Bosnia and Herzegovina

BulgarianNames .ipt
Czech-SlovakNames.ipt
EstonianNames.ipt
GeorgianNames.ipt
HungarianNames.ipt
LatvianNames.ipt
LithuanianNames.ipt
MacedonianNames.ipt
PolishNames.ipt
RomanianNames.ipt
ROMANIAN: Moldova, Romania

RussianNames.ipt
RUSSIAN: Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Russia, Tajikistan

SerboCroatianNames.ipt
SERBO-CROATIAN: Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

UkrainianNames.ipt


MidleEastern
AzeriNames.ipt
AZERI: Azerbaijan, Iran

IranianNames.ipt
IsraeliNames.ipt
KurdishNames.ipt
KURDISH: Iraq, Syria, Turkey

MuslimNames.ipt
MUSLIM: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Indonesia,
Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

TurkishNames.ipt


NorthAmerica
AmericanNames.ipt
CanadianFrenchNames.ipt
CanadianNames.ipt
Native American Names.ipt
Algonquin, Apache, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa,
Choctaw, Comanche, Cree, Dakota, Hopi, Iroquois, Mapuche,
Miwok, Mohawk, Navajo, Nootka, Ojibwa, Omaha, Pawnee,
Ponca, Quechua, Shawnee, Shoshone, Sioux, Winnebago


Oceania
MaoriNames.ipt

South&CentralAmerica
BrazilianNames.ipt
HispanicAmericanNames.ipt
HISPANIC AMERICAN: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela


WesternEurope
AncientGreekNames.ipt
AustrianNames.ipt
BelgianNames.ipt
BritishNames.ipt
United Kingdom (England and Wales)

DanishNames.ipt
DutchNames.ipt
DUTCH: Netherlands, South Africa

EnglishNames.ipt
ENGLISH: Australia, Botswana, New Zealand, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

FinnishNames.ipt
FrenchNames.ipt
GermanNames.ipt
GreekName.ipt
IcelandicNames.ipt
IrishCelticNames.ipt
IrishNames.ipt
ItalianNames.ipt
NorwegianNames.ipt
PortugueseNames.ipt
PORTUGUESE: Angola, Mozambique, Portugal

ScottishNames.ipt
SloveneNames.ipt
SpanishNames.ipt
SwedishNames.ipt
SwissNames.ipt
TWVIvikingnames.ipt

[gogocamel]

I spent some time creating Names generator tables for different countries using Inspiration Pad Pro. They are separated by continent but you can put them all in the same place and even create a single file with all tables together so you can mix first names and Last names from different countries.

Files are text format but they must be ANSI encoded to work with non-English characters so I recommend to Edit them with Notepad++ (which is the text editor I use).

I’m also working on a character generator and a planet name generator that I’ll share with you once it’s done.

BTW I just checked and as said gogocamel, Inspiration Pad Pro stills free and for those of you that prefer to use your tablet or smartphone they also have a version for Android.

Inspiration Pad Pro creates a folder in your Documents folder where you have to unzip this file to work properly. Documents\Inspiration Pad Pro\Common\nbos

Enjoy

That is awesome. I will definitely makes use of these. Thank you. Awhile back I worked up a similar list of tables drawn from Gygax's Extraordinary Names. I've since tweaked them to fit my game worlds, since they probably aren't much use to anyone else. I may have a backup of the source tables somewhere. I'll see if I can dig them up.

[HansR]

That is awesome. I will definitely makes use of these. Thank you. Awhile back I worked up a similar list of tables drawn from Gygax's Extraordinary Names. I've since tweaked them to fit my game worlds, since they probably aren't much use to anyone else. I may have a backup of the source tables somewhere. I'll see if I can dig them up.

You're welcome Gogocamel. In due time I'll share my IPT files related to Names and Cartography/Cosmography I've been working for my personal project. I have other resources that are not really cartography related that I can also share. Send me a PM telling me what you currently use and I'll be able to send you what I have that is related.

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[Redrobes]

I recalled a name gen list and I found it today...

https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ead.php?t=4943

Theres a link in that to some perl code I did to do the Elite name gen. I used a similar name gen for a map I made a long time ago. I forget what it was called now or the link to it.

[ChickPea]

My no. 1 favourite generator is the Pseudo-Elizabethan Place Name Generator

[gogocamel]

My no. 1 favourite generator is the Pseudo-Elizabethan Place Name Generator

I'm definitely bookmarking that one.

[POUTROR]

Hi,

I just made a spreadsheet name generator based on a list of morphemes/syllables. Each morpheme can be entered in the list along with its translation and the spreadsheet will display assembled words and their etymology.

The spreadsheet is somewhat protected but you can edit the interesting parts. If you want to use it full time you should make a copy of your own because everyone has the link to the same document.

There is also a second sheet filled with Quenya morphemes (Tolkien's elvish language) in the document so you can test two different languages.

Here is the link : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...oM0/edit#gid=0

[Chanticrow]

I know this thread is pretty old now, but the power of the internet compels me.

Gammadyne's Random Word Generator is an incredible tool for generating words based on patterns or extrapolating an existing word in hundreds of variations. The free version of the software has a few non-essential functions disabled. The interface is dated, but the company still improves the software and introduces new language sets.
https://www.gammadyne.com/rndword.htm

My other favorite tool for generating new names is Markov Chains. This link provides a long explanation of how it works: https://towardsdatascience.com/gener...s-2a33030a4ac0
The short version is using the letter frequency of a set of words to generate more words similar to those in the set.

There are lots of Markov Chain tools on the web, but this one is my go-to because it has a lot of pre-selected sets of words available. Just click the "Random (x2)" button to cross two word sets. See what you get for "Pies + Theological Demons" or "English Towns + Periodic Elements", for example. Open the settings menu to select word sets, or drop your own list into the text box and generate endless variations on your theme.

https://www.samcodes.co.uk/project/markov-namegen/